Craven County NcArchives News.....Spaight-Stanley Duel 1802
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American Citizen, 1802 1802
   A DUEL was fought a short distance from Newbern (N. C.) on Sunday evening 
the 4th inst. between Richard Dobbs Spaight, Esq. formerly Governor of North 
Carolina, and John Stanley, Esq. Senator for the District of Newbern.  After 
exchanging three fires each, without effect, at the fourth fire, R. D. Spaight 
received a ball directly under his right arm-pit, which put a period to his 
existence four hours afterwards.  The cause of this unhappy affair proceeded 
from a dispute of a political nature.


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