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      © 2015 Jon C. Blue

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      The Driftless Connecticut Series is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

      Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Blue, Jon C., author.

      The case of the piglet’s paternity : trials from the New Haven colony, 1639–1663 / Jon C. Blue.

      pages cm

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-0-8195-7537-1 (cloth : alk. paper) —

      ISBN 978-0-8195-7538-8 (ebook)

      1. Trials—New-Haven Colony—History.

      2. Trials—Connecticut—History.

      3. Justice, Administration of—Connecticut—History.

      4. Law—New-Haven Colony—History.

      I. Title.

      KF220.B58 2015

      347.746'0709032—dc23 2014048332

      5 4 3 2 1

      Cover illustration: Detail from sow and pigs, Catchpenny Prints.

      FOR JEAN

      CONTENTS

       Introduction The New Haven Trials 1

       1 The Indian’s Name 26

       2 The Piglet’s Paternity 33

       3 The Exploding Gun 40

       4 The “Billingsgate Slut” 45

       5 New Haven’s Watergate 49

       6 The Sexual Harassment Case 54

       7 The Women Dissidents 62

       8 The Shipwreck 73

       9 The Faulty Shoes 84

       10 The Drunken Sailors 96

       11 The Competing Claimants 101

       12 The Frisky Couple 107

       13 The Rhode Island Privateer 111

       14 The Reputed Witch 117

       15 The Milford Bestiality Case 128

       16 The Boat Sex Case 132

       17 The Youth Sex Cases 138

       18 The Disputed Will 149

       19 The Farmhand Arsonist 153

       20 The Stolen Silverware 158

       21 The Vanished Husband 163

       22 The Attempted Bestiality Case 167

       23 The Clamorous Quaker 172

       24 The Currier’s Apprentice 179

       25 The Milford Paternity Case 185

       26 The Brickmaker’s Apprentice 195

       27 The Horse-Trading Case 201

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