| Index Entry | Dancer, Clieveland, Bersheba, with seaman, she dies after being struck |
| Location | New York |
| Citation | NM.765.010 8 Jul 1765:23 (357) New-York, July 1. . . Saturday night last, one Bersheba Clieveland being out a dancing, in company with a seaman named James Caldwell, and some words arising between them, he struck her; upon which she endeavoured to make her escape over several fences from him, in attempting which, she hurt herself; this, with the heat of dancing, and the blow she received, obliged her to take to her bed, where she languished for two or three days, and then died. . . . |
| Generic Title | Newport Mercury |
| Date | 1765.07.08 |
| Publisher | Hall, Samuel |
| City, State | Newport, RI |
| Year | 1765 |
| Bibliography | B0032061 |