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RefNoKHCP/1/44/1
AltRefNoHCP/1/44/1
TitleHuntingdonshire Assizes: Legal papers in the case against Peter Pettit, accusing of setting fire to the property of Mr Thomas George of Bythorn, farmer
DescriptionThe fire caused damage to all of George's haystacks, the farm premises and nine cottages. Damage estimated at £6000.
Includes brief for prosecution, a plan of the properties affected by the fire and the depositions of several witnesses, including:
Thomas George, farmer
John Marson, Chief Superintendent of the Huntingdonshire Police
Thomas Pashler, farmer of Keyston
Thomas Smith of Bythorn, plumber
George Haggard of Bythorn, gamekeeper
James Smith of Bythorn, butcher
John Spencer of Bythorn, blacksmith
William Twelvetree of Keyston, labourer
James Parker of Bythorn, blacksmith
Ann wife of William Jackson of St Neots
James Basley Mantle, labourer
George Smith of Bythorn, ostler
John Elliot of Keyston, labourer
John Pearson of Keyston, labourer
Christopher Coulson of Keyston, labourer
Thomas Spencer, Sergeant in the Huntingdonshire Police
Joseph Reed of Buckworth, labourer
William Johnson of Keyston. tollgate keeper
John Richards of Bythorn, labourer
James Hollis of Keyston, farm bailiff
James Loweth of Bythorn
Rebecca Shrives of Bythorn, widow and publican
Date1865
CreatorNameHuntingdonshire Quarter Sessions records
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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