[Manuscript minutes of two meetings of the elders of the Presbytery of Argyle New York, including accusations that a member had beaten his wife]

[Argyle, NY], 1805. 6pp. Small 4to. Pinned together at an early date. Usual folds, minor foxing. 6pp. Small 4to. Much of the minutes of two meetings of the elders of the Argyle were taken up with the case of Joseph Wright who was accused of beating his wife. The minutes include the testimony of two female witnesses that Wright had beaten his wife with a broomstick, as well as the testimony of another female witness that she had heard rumor that Wright had beaten his wife "because he was jealous with her being great with a Negro & expected that the last child she had would be black...