{"id":4309,"date":"2019-08-28T17:13:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T21:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/?p=4309"},"modified":"2020-01-31T08:08:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T13:08:43","slug":"nicholas-murphy-vs-john-cullen-1886","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/historical-records\/nicholas-murphy-vs-john-cullen-1886\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Murphy vs. John Cullen (1886)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Transcribed by Audrey Henderson, June, 2014<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quebec City Archives<\/p>

Themis Database of Court Records<\/p>

February 2, 1886<\/p>

Piece #24931-2<\/p>

File: 24932 (Quebec Archives)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Dated the 2nd<\/sup>\nday of February 1886<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RECOGNIZANCE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Cullen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FOR A SUMMARY TRIAL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do hereby certify\nthat the said ha(s) not appeared at the time and place, in the within\ncondition mentioned, but therein ha(s) made default, by reason whereof the\nwithin written recognizance is forfeited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J.S.P. ______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nCANADA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nPROVINCE OF QUEBEC,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nDISTRICT OF QUEBEC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nCITY OF QUEBEC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BE IT REMEMBERED,\nthat on this second day of February, in the year of Our Lord one thousand\neight hundred and eighty six, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nJohn Cullen of Stoneham, farmer, \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nJohn Bryson, grocer, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nArthur McWilliams, custom house officer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

both of the said City\nof Quebec, personally came before the undersigned, Judge of the Sessions of\nthe Peace in and for the City of Quebec, and severally acknowledged\nthemselves to owe to Our Lady the Queen, the several sums following, to wit\n: the said John Cullen the sum of forty dollars currency, and the said John\nBryson & Arthur McWilliams the sum of twenty dollars currency, each, to be\nrespectively made and levied of their several goods and chattels, lands and\ntenements, to the use of our said Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors,\nif the said John Cullen shall personally be and appear at the Court House,\nin the said City of Quebec, in and for the said District of Quebec, on the\nninth day of February at ten o\u2019clock A.M. to answer the charge of assault\nand battery preferred against him by Nicholas Murphy and in the meantime\nshall keep the peace and be of good behavior towards our said Lady the\nQueen, and more especially towards the said Nicholas Murphy then, that the\npresent Recognizance shall be null and void, but otherwise shall be and\nremain in full force, virtue and effect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taken and\nacknowledged before me, the said Judge of the Sessions of the Peace, at the\nsaid City of Quebec, on the day and year first above written.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signed: Alexandre\nChauveau, J.S.P.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also signed: John\nCullen, John Bryson, A. McWilliams<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nDated 9th<\/sup> day of Feb, 1886<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nIn the case of <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nNicholas Murphy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nvs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nJohn Cullen <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nFor <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nASSAULT AND BATTERY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONVICTION. ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

32nd<\/sup> and\n33rd<\/sup> Vict., Cap. 20, Sec. 43.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nPOLICE OFFICE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nCANADA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nPROVINCE OF QUEBEC,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nDISTRICT OF QUEBEC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nCITY OF QUEBEC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BE IT REMEMBERED,\nthat on this ninth day of February in the year of Our Lord, one thousand\neight hundred and eighty six at the said City of Quebec, in the said\nDistrict<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Cullen, late of\nthe Parish of Tewkesbury, farmer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defendant, is\nconvicted before the undersigned Judge of the Sessions of the Peace in and\nfor the City of Quebec, for that he the said Defendant on the 24th<\/sup>\nday of January last at the Parish of Tewkesbury, within the District of\nQuebec, unlawfully did assault and beat one Nicholas Murphy of the Parish of\nStoneham, farmer without any cause or provocation and against the form of\nthe Statue in such case made and provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AND I adjudge the\nsaid Defendant for his said offence to forfeit and pay the sum of two\ndollars currency, to be paid and applied according to law, and also to pay\nto the said Nicholas Murphy the sum of seven dollars and twenty cents\ncurrency, for his costs, in this behalf; and if the said several sums be not\npaid forthwith, I adjudge the said Defendant to be imprisoned in the Common\nGaol, at the said City of Quebec, in the said District, and there kept at\nhard labor for the space of fifteen days unless the said several sums and\nall costs and charges of the commitment and conveying of the said defendant\nto the said Common
\nGaol shall be sooner paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GIVEN under my Hand\nand Seal, the day and year first above mentioned, at the said City of\nQuebec, in the District aforesaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signed: Alexandre\nChauveau, J.S.P.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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