The Captain and the Killer: A Dispute at Mr. Randall’s Tavern

This week, the Murder Sheet will go back in time to the winter of 1788. In the town of New Durham, New Hampshire, a night out among friends starts with drinks at Mr. Randall's Tavern.

But a clash between two veterans who served in the American Revolution will end in a deadly confrontation. And the tragedy wouldn't stop there.

We cited this excerpt from Dover History by Robert Whitehouse on the Dover Public Library's website: https://www.dover.nh.gov/government/city-operations/library/history/dovers-first-hanging.html

Check out Dr. Laurel Daen's article "Revolutionary War Invalid Pensions and the Bureaucratic Language of Disability in the Early Republic" here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/650777/summary

Dr. Daen also uploaded data sets around pension claims here: https://repository.upenn.edu/mead/47/

You can buy Dr. Sharon Salinger's book (Taverns and Drinking in Early America) here: https://www.amazon.com/Taverns-Drinking-America-Sharon-Salinger/dp/0801878993

And here's the article we cited from Foster's Daily Democrat: https://www.fosters.com/story/news/2014/05/17/old-city-gallows-near-modern/37332977007/

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