Dobbs County NcArchives News.....Col. Shepard April 16, 1788
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American Intelligence, 1788 April 16, 1788
WILMINGTON, (N. C.) April 16.

   We learn from Dob’s County, in this state, that on Sunday the 13th inst. a 
fracas happened between Col. Benjamin Shepard, and Mr. William Barfield, 
which originated in a dispute relative to the proposed constitution; the 
particulars of which are as follow.

   Col. Shepard, not agreeing in sentiments with Mr. Barfield, with respect to 
the new Constitution, and while discussing the subject, being irritated with 
Mr. Barfield, proceeded to chastise him with a whip, which an apprentice boy 
of Mr. Barfield’s perceiving, took up a broad ax, and struck Col. Shepard on 
the cheek, and thereby cut off a side of his face, and broke his collar bone.

   A nephew of Col. Shepard, who happened to be present, resqued the ax from 
the youth, upon which he took his master’s rifle, it being then loaded, and 
shot at Col. Shepard’s nephew, but providentially only wounded him in both 
arms, one of which has since been amputated.  Our informant adds, that Col. 
Shepard has since died of his wounds.


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