Nash, John

Name	Street	Town	State	From	To
Nash, John		New Haven	Connecticut	1650s

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Son of Thomas Nash. John Nash was a captain and major at New Haven. The following was found in "The Records Of The Colony And Plantation Of New Haven, From 1638 To 1649". The history is between Stephen Medcalf and John Linley and came to trial. “Francis Linley, his brother, being in the house, told him he would sell him a gun.... Stephen asked him if it were a good one, he answered yea, as any was in the town, whereupon they bargained, and Stephen was to give him 17s." Medcalfe, as he walked out the door, took another look at the gun, and asked Francis Linley if the lock was okay. Francis’s response was that the gunsmith John Nash “told him she was not worth 3d” but then again, Linley claimed that gunsmiths did not appreciate old guns. With Francis Linley’s assurances that the gun was good, Stephen took it home. “Stephen went home & afterward discharging the said gun the breech flew out & struck into his eye and wounded him deep and dangerously into the head.” At Trial, many witness testified. Francis, told the court “that he told Stephen that John Nash told him that the gun was naught, that it was not worth 3 pence, that the barrel was thin... and advised Stephen to secure her well and... to put but a little charge in her.” But many witnesses contradicting Francis. John Nash testified that he had warned Francis that “it was a very naughty piece” (meaning, worth nothing) “the barrel at the breech was as thin as a shilling, cracked from the breech to the touch-hole....” (In a matchlock gun, the touch-hole was where the slowmatch lit the powder to fire the gun.) John Nash also testified that he had told Francis “he would not discharge it for all New-haven, for it would do some mischief.” Witness Richard Myles testified that “he heard John Nash speak much of her badness & unserviceableness to Francis Linley.” There were plenty of witnesses who testify that Fracis Linley knew the gun was unsafe. John Linley, Stephen’s friend and Francis’s brother was asked, “why he was taken with such a quaking and trembling when Stephen was going to shoot,” John Linley denied that he had done either. But a woman named Fancy testified that after Stephen’s accident, John Linley spoke of “hard thoughts of his brother concerning the gun.” which a Mr. Pell confirmed. the court awarded £20 in damages to Stephen Dedcalfe for medical expenses, the loss of his eye, and his suffering. Remark: In many seventeenth and eighteenth century documents guns where "she", like boats and other objects with affection.

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Son of Thomas Nash. John Nash was a captain and major at New Haven. The following was found in "The Records Of The Colony And Plantation Of New Haven, From 1638 To 1649". The history is between Stephen Medcalf and John Linley and came to trial.

“Francis Linley, his brother, being in the house, told him he would sell him a gun.... Stephen asked him if it were a good one, he answered yea, as any was in the town, whereupon they bargained, and Stephen was to give him 17s."

Medcalfe, as he walked out the door, took another look at the gun, and asked Francis Linley if the lock was okay. Francis’s response was that the gunsmith John Nash “told him she was not worth 3d” but then again, Linley claimed that gunsmiths did not appreciate old guns.

With Francis Linley’s assurances that the gun was good, Stephen took it home. “Stephen went home & afterward discharging the said gun the breech flew out & struck into his eye and wounded him deep and dangerously into the head.”

At Trial, many witness testified. Francis, told the court “that he told Stephen that John Nash told him that the gun was naught, that it was not worth 3 pence, that the barrel was thin... and advised Stephen to secure her well and... to put but a little charge in her.” But many witnesses contradicting Francis.

John Nash testified that he had warned Francis that “it was a very naughty piece” (meaning, worth nothing) “the barrel at the breech was as thin as a shilling, cracked from the breech to the touch-hole....” (In a matchlock gun, the touch-hole was where the slowmatch lit the powder to fire the gun.) John Nash also testified that he had told Francis “he would not discharge it for all New-haven, for it would do some mischief.”

Witness Richard Myles testified that “he heard John Nash speak much of her badness & unserviceableness to Francis Linley.” There were plenty of witnesses who testify that Fracis Linley knew the gun was unsafe.

John Linley, Stephen’s friend and Francis’s brother was asked, “why he was taken with such a quaking and trembling when Stephen was going to shoot,” John Linley denied that he had done either. But a woman named Fancy testified that after Stephen’s accident, John Linley spoke of “hard thoughts of his brother concerning the gun.” which a Mr. Pell confirmed.

the court awarded £20 in damages to Stephen Dedcalfe for medical expenses, the loss of his eye, and his suffering.

Remark: In many seventeenth and eighteenth century documents guns where "she", like boats and other objects with affection.