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MG-A(H.779.001
23 Jun 1779:11,12,21,22 (15 Extraordinary)
[A single sheet summarizing Goddard's complaints about an
incident in which he was subjected to mob action:]
To his Excellency Thomas Johnson, Esq; Governor of the State
of Maryland, and to his Honourable Council.
The Memorial of William Goddard, late of Baltimore, printer.
That your memorialist being deeply impressed with the
importance of supporting the Liberty of the Press; which the
38th section of the Bill of Rights of this state asserts
"ought to be inviolably preserved," and from a candid
examination of the trial of Major General Lee, being fully
convinced of the injustice done him, not only by the
sentence of the Court-martial, but in its confirmation by
Congress, judged in his indespensible duty, as an honest
man, to a man, admitted without partiality, into the
Maryland Journal, &c. of the 6th instant, at the request of
that gentleman, a number of "Queries Political and
Military," which your men considered merely as introductory
to a full vindication of the infamous General's character. .
. [1/2 column laying out the history of the problem, then
describing the raid on his house.]
A band of ruffians composed of Continental recruits,
mulattoes, or Negroes, fifers and drummer, to the number of
about thirty, headed by Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Bayley, and
Stephen Shermadine, Continental Officers, were detached from
the head-quarters of your memorialist's persecutors, to
invade the sanctuary of his dwelling, and seize on his
person . . . [requiring him to appear before a midnight
board of inquiry. He convinced them that he would wait on
them in the morning, which he did, and complains of their
ill-usage of him. Three more columns with corroborating
testimony and descriptions of the pending suits.]
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