1768. A numerous collection of outcast mullatoes, mustees and free negroes, all horse-thieves.—Boston Chronicle, No. 43. [For fuller quotation see Mr. Albert Matthews’s letter on ‘Lynch Law,’ in the The Nation, N.Y., Dec. 4, 1902, p. 441.]
1778. He had been … committed to gaol for desertion, and on suspicion of his being a horse-thief.—N.J. Gazette, Sept. 16.
1800. Sweezy was arrested (being an old horse thief) and his papers examined.—Thomas Jefferson, ‘The Anas,’ Jan. 2.
