Tyrrell County NcArchives News.....Murder of Col. John Clayton September 23, 1814
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Sept. 23, 1814, Raleigh Minerva September 23, 1814
HORRID MURDER
   -- On Tuesday evening, the 23rd ult., as COL JOHN CLAYTON, a respectable 
and vigilant magistrate of Gum-Neck, Tyrrell County, had left his door but a 
few steps, he was fired on by some villains lurking in the corn within a short 
distance of  him, when a ball and eight large mould shot entered his breast 
and literally passed through him. It appears that the inflexible discharge of 
his duty had rendered COL. CLAYTON obnoxious to a lawless set of beings who 
resided in his neighborhood – the hellish scheme of his murder was 
consequently engendered. But “murder will out:” by a providential circumstance 
a clue has been discovered which promises to bring to light the transaction. 
One white and two black men have already been committed for trial and several 
others are held to bail for their appearance at the next term of the Superior 
Court for that County. – Edenton paper



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