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Mass Colonial Records Book 3 pg 251 at
Massachusetts Archives has the following
record of this event:
"Whereas the court and the Jury did not agree
in the John Crossman case who is now a prisoner for blasphemy and so it is necessary
coming to the court on a full hearing of the
order and determine as follows -
that the said John Crossman
a)be severely whipped in the open market
place
b)immediately thereafter be burnt in his
forehead with the letter "B"
c)and also banished forever out of our
jurisdiction"
This event took place Oct 30 1651.
My not so terribly confident interpretation
of the above is that the court (appointed
from England?) and his jury of peers disagreed
on the punishment decided by the court(?)and were to meet to resolve their differences.
I do not think we can draw ANY inferences
from the above other than that there WAS
a trial and it WAS in 1651. There is NO
indication of HOW or WHETHER he was punished
lil
p.s.
In the first series of three volumes of
"The Great Migration Begins:Robert Charles Anderson
there is ONE reference to a Crossman That is
Sarah Crossman who was a g-daughter of John.
She married a Woodward.
In the second series of TGMB "A" - "B"
Robert Crossman,Jr who was great grandson of
John administered to the estate of Gilbert Brooks (who had arrived in 1635 aboard The Blessin" Robert had married Hannah Brooks one of the nine daughters of Gilbert.
The name "John" is not mentioned in either
the 1620-1633 index of TGMB or the 1634-1635
index of TGMB
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