. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. 5th of December, 1805, a bitter attack on Tarleton Bates,1 theprothonotary of Allegheny County. On the 2d of January fol-lowing, Bates, being in company with Henry Baldwin (after-wards a judge of the United States Supreme Court) and SteeleSemple, Esqs., attacked and cowhided Pentland on MarketStreet, Pittsburg. The latter next day notified Bates by letterthat he had appealed to the civil authorities for protection, buta day or two afterwards sent Thomas Stewart, a young Irishmanjust starting in business in the city as a
. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. 5th of December, 1805, a bitter attack on Tarleton Bates,1 theprothonotary of Allegheny County. On the 2d of January fol-lowing, Bates, being in company with Henry Baldwin (after-wards a judge of the United States Supreme Court) and SteeleSemple, Esqs., attacked and cowhided Pentland on MarketStreet, Pittsburg. The latter next day notified Bates by letterthat he had appealed to the civil authorities for protection, buta day or two afterwards sent Thomas Stewart, a young Irishmanjust starting in business in the city as a merchant, to Bates witha challenge, which Bates refused to accept on the ground thatPentland, by submitting to a then appealing tothe law, could not be recognized as a gentleman, according to thecode. In a letter in the Tree of Liberty (then edited by WalterForward), he defended his refusal at length, and seemed to castaspersions also on Stewart, the bearer of the challenge. Stew- 1 Edward Bates, Lincolns Attorney-General, was a brother of Tarleton Charles Judge, 1824-1831. History of Beaver County 311 art then challenged Bates, and the challenge was accepted. Theduel took place on the morning of the 8th of January, 1806, ina ravine which debouches on the Monongahela River, threemiles from the city. Bates fell on the second fire, shot in thebreast, and died within an hour. The seconds were WilliamWilkins in behalf of Stewart, and Morgan Neville for Wilkins did not press the duel to a fatal conclusion, as hasbeen frequently charged, would appear from the words whichwe have italicized in a letter that was published in the Gazetteand Tree of Liberty and copied in the Commonwealth of January15, 1806, supposed to have been prepared by the seconds them-selves, and reading as follows: Pittsburg, January u, 1806. Mr. Scull: A friend of the gentlemen who were seconds to Mr. Batesand Mr. Stewart in the duel which lately occurred, to preve
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