r. Thaddeus Mason.

At the term of the "Superiour Court of Judicature, Court of Assize,
and General Goal Delivery," held at Cambridge on the second Tuesday of
August following, the grand jury found a true bill for petit treason
against Phillis, and against Mark and Robin as accessories before the
fact. As this is the only indictment for this offence known to have
been found in Massachusetts, and was drawn by that eminent lawyer,
Edmund Trowbridge, then Attorney-General, it is worthy of being
preserved in print, in connection with the coroner's verdict and the
examinations of the suspected parties, which are as follows:--

[_Coroner's Inquest._]

[Two-penny
stamp.] MIDDLESEX ss.

An Inquisition Indented, Taken at Charlestown Within the County of
Middlesex Aforesaid the Second day of July in the Twenty ninth year of
the Reign of our Lord George the Second by the Grace of God, of Great
Britain France and Ireland, King Defender of the Faith &c., before
John Remington Gentleman one of the Coroners of our said Lord the
King, Within the County of Middlesex Aforesaid; upon view of the Body
of John Codman of Charlestown Aforesaid Gentleman then and there Being
dead by the oaths of Josiah Whitemore, Samuel Larkin, Samuel Larkin
Junr. Richard Deavens, William Thompson, Nathaniel Brown, Samuel
Kettle, John Larkin, Thomas Larkin, David Cheever, Barnabas Davis,
Edward Goodwin, Benjamin Brazier, Samuel Sprague, Richard Phillips,
Samuel Hendley and Michael Brigden Good and Lawfull men of Charlestown
Aforesaid Within the County Aforesaid; Who being Charg'd and Sworn to
Inquire for our said Lord the King, When, and by What means, and how
the Said John Codman Came to his Death--upon their Oaths do Say that
the said John Codman Came to his death By Poison Procured by his
negro man servant Mark Which he took and Languishd untill the first of
July Current and then died and so the Jurors Aforesaid upon their
oaths do Say, that Aforesaid Mark in manner and Form Aforesaid, the
Aforesaid John Codman then and there feloniously did Poison against
the peace of our Soverign Lord the King his Crown and Dignity--

In Witness, Whereof, as Well I the Coroner Aforesaid, as the Jurors
Aforesaid, to this Inquisition have Interchangeably put our hands and
Seals, the day And year Abovesaid.

JOHN REMINGTON _Coroner_ [Seal.]
RICHD PHILLIPS [Seal.] JOSIAH WHITTEMORE [Seal.]
SAMLL KETTELL [Seal.] SAML