Newhanover County NcArchives Court.....Pollock - Jail Keeper, David 1771
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Source: Colonial Records Of North Carolina
Written: 1771

Deposition of Henry Young concerning injuries sustained by David Pollock as 
jail keeper in Wilmington
Young, Henry
November 17, 1771 
Volume 09, Page 53

[From MS. Records in Office of Secretary of State.]

North Carolina 
New Hanover county 
to wit
Henry Young esquire Coroner of the said county maketh oath that on or about 
the beginning of August last David Pollock keeper of the prison of the same 
county for this deponent, came to him this deponent wounded in a dreadful 
manner with part of his bowels out. That, understanding the wound was given by 
one or more of the criminals then in his custody, this deponent pursued and 
overtook them and found one of the prisoners whose name is Thomas Clarke with 
a knife in one hand and a razor in the other. That after some threats and 
attempt to escape the said Thomas Clarke surrendered, and acknowledged that he 
had wounded the said David Pollock. This deponent further saith that the said 
that the said Thomas Clarke was committed to prison by a Magistrate of 
Brunswick county for breaking a chest on board of a vessel and stealing 
thereout money cloaths and other effects on a considerable value

HENRY YOUNG

Sworn to before me the 17th Nov. 1771 
Wm Campbell J P.

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