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Mr Punch said...

Hoar was presumably acting in the capacity of a justice of the peace for the purpose of recording Baker's statement (in effect, notarizing it); he was actually at that time a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, roughly equivalent to our modern Superior Court.

Apr 18, 2016, 10:33:08 PM

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