Re: Taff Baker Taffe
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In reply to:
Taff Baker
Doris Noland Parton 12/02/10
This should have come before the previous post.
Legal Notices From the Virginia Gazette (Richmond, VA)
27 May 1785
Proclamation of Governor Patrick Henry that an atrocious murder was lately committed in Washington County on the body of Monsieur le Brun and there is great cause to suspect William Baker and Peter Taffe, both inhabitants of Hampshire County, to be the perpetrators. Baker fled in the neighborhood of one Carpenter, on Jackson's River, not far from the Sweet Springs. 50 pounds reward offered for his apprehension.27 May 1785