Rodney’s Notes
Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware, Sussex County.
November 19, 1802.
John Campbel. In the summer my wife had the fever and ague. Reduced her very low. She told me on her death-bed, told me that she wanted me to send for Nathan Young and [—][1]
Young to tell them something before she should die. I asked if she could not tell me. This was on Wednesday, and she died on Saturday following. The affair between Anthony and her happened on Saturday before. She had been to a woman in labor. Had got very cold on Monday. Came home, went to spinning, said she believed her death or complaint was owing to Anthony’s usage.
Hepy Draper. On Friday I went to see her, found her extremely ill. Asked her what ailed her eye. She said she had got it by a scuffle with Anthony. John Campbel then told me what she had told him.
Rachel Man. She had been out all Sunday. We breakfasted together after.
Nathan Young. Ann Campbel was my mother, came to my house on Saturday. She went to Pepper’s as a midwife. Returned Monday. Wednesday they sent for me. She was taken sick. I believe she died with a nervous fever and a violent one. When I came in on Saturday after the affair had happened between Anthony and her, she told me nothing of it, and Anthony continued there an hour or two talking with her after it happened.
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Bayard for prisoner.
Celia Young, the wife of Nathan Young. She took up one chair to strike Anthony. He took it away. She took another and struck at him with another. I did not apprehend Anthony struck or meant to strike.
Robert Young. I was present. Mother made a stroke at him with a chair. I got it from her and said he was going. She then took another and struck at him. He fended it off, and it struck her in the eye. Imagine she did not complain, nor he did not offer to strike her at all.
Verdict, not guilty, jury being up about fifteen minutes.