1776 Copy of a 1773 Verdict Against Lydia Curtis, an Attleboro Woman Found Guilty of “Fornication with a person [...] unknown” and Having “a Bastard Child born of her body”.
Taunton, Province of Massachusetts Bay: November 28, 1776. Sheet measuring 7 ½ x 12 inches, docketed on the verso. A legal document dating from near the end of the American colonial era, documenting a 1773 verdict against Lydia Curtis, an Attleboro resident, for fornication and bastardy; that is, intercourse and.....