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From: "Brian L. Cartwright" <>
Subject: Re: [PaCambri] Quarter Sessions, 1808 (cont)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 12:13:42 -0400
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> Pennsylvania vs John NAGLE, Richard MCGUIRE, Joseph MCGEEHAN, Michael
MULLEN,
> John MULHOLLAND, John FELTZ, and Peter GARRIGAN. Assault and Battery on
James
> MCGUIRE. Defendants being arraigned plead non cul et de hoc Attorney
General
> Simileter. Defendants each bound in $100. Conditioned for their appearance
at
> the next Court of Quarter Sessions to answer to a charge of Assault and
> Battery on ***James L MCGUIRE***. Samuel GALBRAITH bound in $700.
Conditioned for
> the appearance of the defendants.


With so many McGuires latelt, I'll have to check with Brenda Wallace to see
if this is my ancestor they were beeting on!

I wonder if this was connected to the Edward James feud with Rev. Gallitzin?
My James McGuire was a co-conspirator with James. The priest referred to my
ancestor as a "notorious drunkard and blasphemer", etc - see below.

In 1807, James McGuire had gotten himself involved on the wrong side in the
worst scandal involving the St. Michael's Parish.
Two years earlier, In 1805, an Englishman, Edward V. James moved from
Lancaster to Loretto. Hoping to take advantage of the proposed northern
turnpike through the newly formed Cambria County to Pittsburgh (today U. S.
Route 22), James bought 400 acres from Thomas Durbin and established a town
called Munster three miles from Loretto on the proposed turnpike. When James
began luring away the Loretto parishioners to fill the empty lots of
Munster, the Prince reacted angrily, offering to subsidize the return moving
expenses of some of the parishioners who had gone to Munster. In retaliation
James fomented a rebellion against the Prince, which gained even the Bishop'
s attention. From the pulpit the Prince impliedly accused James of drunken
demagoguery, and to the Bishop's chagrin began wearing a pistol.
By letter dated May 11, 1807, the Prince characterized those who had
signed James petition calling for the Prince's removal from the pulpit as
"notorious drunkards, blasphemers, robbers - men that have no more religion
than horses, that never or almost never frequent the sacraments, men who
publicly brag of their infamous deeds, and who have impudence to exhibit to
the eyes proofs of their lewdness and debauchery." The Prince circulated his
own petition, which gathered 112 signatures. He also filed a writ of scandal
against John Burgoon over certain false affidavits to which James C. McGuire
had forged, that alleged that Prince Gallitzin had broken into Father
Helbron's desk at Sportsman's Hall and stolen his copper coins.
By July Edward James wrote Prince Gallitzin a letter of apology, asking
for a pardon and promising future obedience. [Brian Cartwright, primarily
from "Catholic Trails West," Edmund Adams & Barbara Brady O'Keeffe]

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