Re: KNICKERBOCKER

joyweave@ix.netcom.com
Mon, 5 May 1997 11:24:35 -0500 (CDT)

Rachel-- I doubt that this is a skeleton in your ancestral closet. Ulster County is all the way across the state from Buffalo. But the logical place to start would be in the Buffalo newspapers of that time.

Joy

On 05/03/97 13:04:42 you wrote:
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>Hello:
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>I hope someone out there can help me. I recently came across the following:
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>"Two executions took place on Friday last, KNICKERBOCKER, at Buffalo, for the
>murderof Harkner, and Lawrence Reiley, at Brooklin, for the murder ofh is wife
>and motehr-in-law."
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>I am wanting to find out the first name of the KNICKERBOCKER as my ancestors
>were in Ulster County at the same time as this man. This was printed February
>7, 1852.
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>Where can I look to find out why he murdered Mr. Harkner?
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>Thanks,
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>Rachel
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>
>

Joy Weaver <joyweave@ix.netcom.com>
Islip, NY, USA

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