War Rev, DE, Treason Delaware Archives REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN THREE VOLUMES VOLUME III AND INDEX Published by the Public Archives Commission of Delaware by authority WILMINGTON, DELAWARE CHARLES L. STORY COMPANY PRESS 1919 Page 1 of 5 ** PAGE BREAK ** War Rev, DE, Treason TREASON 1299 RECOGNIZANCE OF LITTLETON TOWNSEND Kent County, SS. Memorandum, That Littleton Townsend of Sussex County, Yeoman, Thomas Evans of the same County, Innkeeper, and Joseph Polk of Sussex County aforesaid, Husbandman—on the third day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, came before me William Killen Esq. One of the Justices of the Delaware State assigned to hear and determine all Treasons Murders and other Offenses by the Laws of the same State made Capital or Felonies of Death perpetrated within the several Counties of the Delaware State aforesaid and in their proper person did acknowledge themselves to owe to the said State in manner and form following, viz. The aforesaid Littleton Townsend the sum of Four Hundred Pounds, and the aforesaid Thomas Evans and Joseph Polk in Two Hundred Pounds each, lawful money of the said State, to be levied of their several Goods and Chattels Lands and tenements, and of every of them for the use of the said State, if the aforesaid Littleton Townsend shall happen to make default in the condition underwritten. The Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the above bounden Littleton Townsend shall personally appear at the next Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Goal Delivery to be holden for Sussex County aforesaid at the Town of Lewes in the same County, and do then and there answer all such matters and things as shall be objected against him, he being charged with having traiterously levied War against the said State and not depart without Leave of the Court; That then this Recognizance to be void. WILLIAM KILLEN RECOGNIZANCES ENTERED BY OTHERS, as above Name Sureties Charge Date Amount ------------------------- ------------------------- --------------- ---- -------- Whittington Clifton Richard Clifton Evidence 1777 £200.0.0 BENNET BRYAN Treason 1777 400.0.0 Pemberton Carlile |----- John Davis Treason 1777 400.0.0 William Davis | SHEPHERD BRYAN BENNET BRYAN Treason 1777 400.0.0 Colline Truitt Mitchell Tatman Treason 1777 400.0.0 Joseph Stockley Mitchel Tatmen Treason 1777 200.0.0 Hester West Alexander Rutherford Evidence 1777 200.0.0 Jobn Fisher William Laws Treason 1777 600.0.0 Richard Clifton William Laws Treason 1777 400.0.0 John Carlile Evidence 1777 200.0.0 Elisha Dickerson Thomas Kellan Treason 1778 50.0.0 Nehemiah Carey Joseph Caldwell Levying War 1778 500.0.0 Jonathan Burroughs Joseph Polk et al 1778 500.0.0 William Huffington John Fisher Treason 1779 500.0.0 John Smith Evidence 1780 200.0.0 Jeremiah Veach Treason 1780 2000.0.0 John Hudson (of Cuper) Treason 1780 2000.0.0 Henry Hudson (of Cuper) Treason 1780 2000.0.0 Eli Wharton Treason 1780 9000.0.0 Richard Coverdale Bennitt Warren Treason 1780 2000.0.0 Page 2 of 5 ** PAGE BREAK ** War Rev, DE, Treason Name Sureties Charge Date Amount ------------------------- ------------------------- --------------- ---- -------- Benedict Conner Treason 1780 2000.0.0 William Veach Treason 1780 2000.0.0 Thomas Coverdale William Passwater Treason 1780 2000.0.0 Elias Jones Patrick Lingo Treason 1780 3000.0.0 Thomas Wharton Jr. Treason 1780 2000.0.0 Charles Williams Jr. Charles Williams Sr. Treason 1780 2000.0.0 Levey Messick Joseph Morris Treason 1780 2500.0.0 William Blocksom Jr. Samuel Shankland Treason 1780 2000.0.0 Frederick Collings Samuel Shankland Treason 1780 2000.0.0 James Abbott William Tatman Treason 1780 2000.0.0 Eli Williams Joshua Deputy Treason 1780 2000.0.0 John Truitt | William Williams |----- John Plowman Treason 1780 1000.0.0 Townsand Carlile John Lane Treason 1780 2000.0.0 Major Waring James Woods Treason 1780 2000.0.0 Henry Waring Olive Smith Treason 1780 1000.0.0 Levin Vincent Thomas Vincent Treason 1780 2000.0.0 Samuel Truitt Edmun Read Treason 1780 5000.0.0 Jesse Truitt John Collings Treason 1780 9000.0.0 George Truitt John Collings Treason 1780 1000.0.0 Nehemiah Tatman William Tatman Treason 1780 2000.0.0 Olive Smith Henry Warring Treason 1780 1000.0.0 John Riley Edmun Read Treason 1780 2500.0.0 Zepheriah Parimore Richard Coverdale Treason 1780 1000.0.0 John Messick Joseph Polk Sr. Treason 1780 2400.0.0 George Morris Edmun Read To appear 1780 2000.0.0 William Hall Richard Coverdale To appear 1780 2000.0.0 Foster Dulavan Jr. Foster Dulavan Sr. To appear 1780 2000.0.0 Avory Cornwell Francis Cornwell To appear 1780 5000.0.0 William Collings Isaac Collings To appear 1780 2000.0.0 Zadock Lofland Joseph Morris To appear 1780 1500.0.0 Avory Clendaniel Zadock Lindal To appear 1780 2000.0.0 Nicholas Abbott William Abbott To appear 1780 2500.0.0 Robert McKey Charles Williams To appear 1780 2000.0.0 Issiah Johnson Isaac Ingram To appear 1780 4000.0.0 William Hudson Griffith Coverdale To appear 1780 1000.0.0 Jonathan Hemmons Joseph Lindal To appear 1780 5000.0.0 Jacob Carpenter Isaac Allee To appear 1780 2500.0.0 Griffith Coverdale William Hudson To appear 1780 1000.0.0 Phillip Conaway James Woods To appear 1780 2000.0.0 Abab Clindaniel William Abbott To appear 1780 2000.0.0 William Chambers Thomas Crouch To appear 1780 5000.0.0 George Abbott Hugh Baker To appear 1780 1000.0.0 Joseph Watson Johannes Draper Treason 1781 2000.0.0 Baker Johnson Treason 1777 500.0.0 David Davis Treason 1777 500.0.0 Samuel Johnson Treason 1777 500.0.0 Branson Lofland Treason 1777 500.0.0 Littleton Lofland Treason 1777 500.0.0 James Rench William Polk Treason 1778 300.0.0 Woolsey Burton Peter Waples Treason 1779 4000.0.0 Page 3 of 5 ** PAGE BREAK ** War Rev, DE, Treason Name Sureties Charge Date Amount ------------------------- ------------------------- --------------- ---- -------- Benjamin Kees Samuel Wilson Treason 1780 1500.0.0 John Veasey Robert Stevenson Treason 1778 100.0.0 William Burton Jr. Isaac Smith Treason 1778 100.0.0 * Hester West to give evidence against - Solomon Beach, John Hudson, John Tucker, Nunery Deputy, Jonathan Palmer, Jonathan Burrows, Ratcliff Painter, Samuel Davis, and Joshua Laws. * John Carlile to give evidence against - James Wrench,, Littleton Townsend, Israel Brown, Thomas Bell, William Bell, Jesse Bradley, Pemberton Carlile, Nehemiah Carey, and Edward Carey. 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