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Sunday, May 26, 2024

Penowanyanquis.

 "The murder of Penowanyanquis took place in Plymouth Colony (now modern-day Massachusetts) in July 1638. Penowanyanquis, a Native American man who was part of the Nipmuc, was attacked by four runaway indentured servants 

– Thomas Jackson, Richard Stinnings, Daniel Cross (or Crosse), and their informal leader Arthur Peach, 

the four sometimes being referred to as the "Peach Gang" during a botched attempt at highway robbery. 

 Penowanyanquis lived for several days after the attack, long enough to identify his attackers. After the four were arrested, Cross fled before he could be taken to trial and was never relocated, but Stinnings, Jackson, and Peach were all taken into custody, convicted of murder and robbery, and judicially executed in September 1638" 



'Jackson, Peach, and Stinnings were the only people of European descent  

to have been executed for murdering a Native American 

in the history of Plymouth Colony. 

 Historian Tobey Pearl called Penowanyanquis "one of the most significant crime victims in colonial history"  

and noted that the ensuing murder trial was the first "trial by jury" for a charge as serious as murder." 




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Penowanyanquis 


"The trial took place on September 4, 1638, in Plymouth's meeting house. 

 The twelve jurors sworn to hear the case were William Hatch, John Winslow, William Pontus, Edward Foster, Richard Derby, John Holmes, John Peabody, Richard Sillis, Humfrey Turner, Samuel Hinckley, Giles Rickett, and Gabriel Fallowell. 

 All the jurors who heard the murder case were white men;  

none belonged to any Native American tribes. Several Narragansett and Wampanoag people attended the trial"


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