Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1806-04-07

Ol JiC CdCt5 hOunCO MI. DulI' @lt Va
my intentions, and obtained Mr.. Con
ncr's DtUosiJion, which follows.
Patrick Conner of BeGon in the County
Of Suffolk, Gentleman Of lawful age, certify
aud FAY that lometme in the year one thou
Iaass feven hundred and ninety levcn, be-
c ame relponhhle, in whst fern do not par
ticuiarly recolect, to Minturn and Chaplin
of New-york, for the debr OF one Jonas Will
der Jun to the amount Of three thCulard dol
lars ; James Sullivan Fis. Attorney General
Of this commonwealth, applied to nae for the
payment Of this dcst, as Attorney to the
Cretitors; sot being able to pay It, applied
10 one AZ the creditors, al Providence, think
Minturn for delay of payment and be cen
tented 70 allow me the term Of ninety days
and that might tell Mr.. Sullivan 70. Upon
my oblervation that my telling him 70 would
not be tuf'icient, he gave me written paper
directed 70 HIM It was read 10 me, but do
not recolleCt the exact words Of 1.-THE pur-
port however was to allow me the ninety DAYS
creoit, as it was read to me. ] returned to
Bottom and prelented this paper to Mr.. SulI-
van upon wkich he Cblvrves, that it faid
fomething and meant nothng-but one hun
dred doll might be of iome ferviee-I then
replied that | had not got hundred collars;
that the thing was plain before him, and il
could not be INDUCED, NUT 20 to prlon.-
This was on 4 Saturday, and | was taken on
monday, and committed to prilon on the
Saturday mentioned to Mr.. Sullivan that my
daughter was very i'll, and did not expe2
1lc would live but fhort time and on the
Wedaelday following my daughter died g
After her death 7 Jaw Mr.. Sullivan in the
Greet near the Prii5n, and wilhed him to
give me liberty 10 attend my daughters fu-
neral he l4id ne TO- a hundred dollars you
might have been. P. CONNER.
ICmmonm :attb cf Q9assatbusetts.
SgFFOLk Il. Town Of Bottom This twenty
feooHd day of March in the year OF our Ls-d
one thouiand eight hundred and tx, perloR-
ally appeared before the fubicribers two
JulGces of the Peace in and for the county
of SufTo K, quorum pHps, the aforelaid depo-
nsnt, PArick Conner, and after being care
fully examined and duly cautioned to teltify
the whole truth and nothing but the truth,
made oath that the fsregoign DePsGtion, by
him fu fcribed, N true taken at the resuelt
Of John Park, Editor Of a certain Newspaper
printed in Bottom afCrefaid, called the Roper
tory, and PubIiiher of certain writing or
paragraph in iaid paper of tke eighteenth in
fant, to be prelervea in perpetual remem-
braIce of the thing. And we duly notified all
PerlOLS living within tweaty miles Of this
place Of caption, we knew to be intereRed,
III the writing CT paragraph to which the
fad DePoiiti0n relates and Especially, James
Sullivan Efs Attorney General of laid COM
msnweath bat he did not attend.
VIM. wETMoRE, ! Jsfiee5 gftbs P.4ee
JOHN PHILLIPS. : GH4 Q",arr.
WHAT can Mr.. Sullivan say to this
lie says Mr.. Conner is imposed upon
that he is old and infrm Mr.. Con
ntr was neither old nor inhrm wncn
the circumstances happened the facts
and the relation, to which he has now
attested, were then pCtorious III Bos-
ton, and probably hundreds Of people,
ROW living, wei! remember, that Vhcn
tie funeral procession Of this unhappy
mans daughter passed UP Court-Street
i, halted within the limits Of the prison
liberties, and tire coffin Was opencd,that
parental iondness might enjoy its last
indulgenco--that when crowds were
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