Date Posted: Thursday, October 18th, 2012

Tis the season for creepy tales and here’s one right from our holdings.

This is a statement collected from concerned citizens of the Mispillion Hundred in the 18th century regarding the mistreatment of the skull of a gentleman who had died approximately 15 years earlier. According to this record, the perpetrator dug it up and allowed his children to drag it through the streets on a string and affix it to a stick. As one of our processers put it, these kids could have really used an X-Box.

This is just one of the curious tales found in our Small Manuscripts Collection. Come by and dig up some history today.

Statement From Concerned Citizens RG 9200.M01 Marshall Family Papers


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