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Author Blue, Jon C., author.

Title The case of the piglet's paternity : trials from the New Haven colony, 1639-1663 / Jon C. Blue
Published Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (282 pages)
Series Driftless Connecticut series
Driftless Connecticut series.
Contents Cover; THE CASE OF THE PIGLET'S PATERNITY; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Introduction The New Haven Trials; 1 The Indian's Name; 2 The Piglet's Paternity; 3 The Exploding Gun; 4 The "Billingsgate Slut"; 5 New Haven's Watergate; 6 The Sexual Harassment Case; 7 The Women Dissidents; 8 The Shipwreck; 9 The Faulty Shoes; 10 The Drunken Sailors; 11 The Competing Claimants; 12 The Frisky Couple; 13 The Rhode Island Privateer; 14 The Reputed Witch; 15 The Milford Bestiality Case; 16 The Boat Sex Case; 17 The Youth Sex Cases; 18 The Disputed Will; 19 The Farmhand Arsonist
20 The Stolen Silverware21 The Vanished Husband; 22 The Attempted Bestiality Case; 23 The Clamorous Quaker; 24 The Currier's Apprentice; 25 The Milford Paternity Case; 26 The Brickmaker's Apprentice; 27 The Horse-Trading Case; 28 The Milford Arson Case; 29 The Southold Slander; 30 The Bigamist's Wife; 31 The Stamford Murder Mystery; 32 The Lecherous Swineherd; 33 The Burning Barn; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
Summary A vivid series of trials from America's earliest days
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Trials -- New-Haven Colony -- History
Trials -- Connecticut -- History
Justice, Administration of -- Connecticut -- History
Law -- New-Haven Colony -- History
LAW -- Civil Procedure.
LAW -- Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
Justice, Administration of
Law
Trials
Connecticut
Connecticut -- New-Haven Colony
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780819575388
0819575380