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From Records at Milford, Connecticut. ORDER OF SEARCH FOR COL. WHALLEY AND GOFFE. May 17th. 1661 for the Marshalls or Deputies at Milford. You are to make deligent search by the first throughout the whole town of Milford and the precincts there of taking with you two or three sufficient persons and--calling in any other help you shall see need of who are hereby required for your assistance upon call! and this to be in all dwellings houses, barns or other buildings whatsoever and all vessels in the harbor for the finding and aprehending of Colonel Whalley and Colonel Goffe who stand charged with crimes as by his Majestie's letter appears: and being found you are to bring them to the Deputee Governor or some other Magistrate to be sent over for England according to his Majestie's orders whereof fail at peril |
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and empower Thomas Sanford, Nicholas Camp and James Tapping to the above named power according to the tenor of the warrant and to make a return there of under your hand to me by the first. ROBERT TREAT, GOV. We the said persons appointed to serve and search by virtue of this order warrant do hereby declare and testifie that to our best light we the 20th May, 1661 made deligent search according to the tenor of this warrant as Witness our hand. |
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The Judges remained concealed in the Cave at West Rocks, from May 15th to June 11th, the record adds. No doubt Thomas Sanford helped supply them with food and other comforts. |
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THOMAS SANFORD
NICHOLAS CAMP
JAMES TAPPING
LAWRENCE his markWARD |
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The Reverend John Beach
AND HIS
Descendants
TOGETHER WITH
Historical and Biographical Sketches
AND THE
Ancestry and Descendants of John Sanford
OF
Redding, Connecticut To
John Francis Beach BY
REBECCA DONALDSON BEACH
AND
REBECCA DONALDSON GIBBONS NEW HAVEN:
THE TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE & TAYLOR PRESS
1898 |
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