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1 Important Trial for Seduction in the Superior Court of N. York, before Justice Oakley, Nancy Van Haun vs. Silas E. Burrows, on Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th November, 1833 1833

handle is hein.trials/acxd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: IMPORTANT TRIAL FOR SEDUCTION, IN* THE Superior Court of N. York, before Justice Oakley, NANCY VAN HAUN vs. SILAS E. BURROWS, On Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th November, 1833. This cause commenced at 10 o'clock, A. M.: and in consequence of the defendant being well known in New York as an eminent and wealthy merchant, and on acccsrt of the peculiar circumstances at- tending the investigation aboL, to be proceeded in, the court was crowded to excess immediately on the opening of the doors. The counsel engaged for the parties were H. S. McKay, Hiram Ketchum, and Hugh Maxwell, Esquires, for plaintiff; and George Tallman, Og- den Hoffman, and David B. Ogden, Esquires, for the defendant. The cause was opened by Mr. McKay in a neat address, in which he detailed the principal facts subsequently sworn to by the several witnesses for the plaintiff, as given in the following pages, and dilated upon the aggravated nature of the offence imputed to the defendant. Maria Carew examined by Mr. Maxwell.-Mrs. Van Haun lived in Vestry-street in May, 1832. Myself and sister Mary lived with her then. Mary resided one year in the house-till May last, and assisted her in the charge of her family. Mrs. Van Haun kept a boarding-house. , Mary lived previously with Mr. Samuel Downer in Courtlandt-street -had lived in his service three years. My sister was quite a child when she went to live with the father of Silas E. Burrows-resided with him seven or eight years before she went to live with Mr. Silas E. Burrows, I have been with her at the house of Silas E. Burrows before his wife died. I am a dress-maker. Mr. Burrows resided in Bleecker-street previous to October,N1832. In the first week of October, Mr. Burrows came to the house of Mrs. Van Haun's. I did not see him when he first came into the house, but I heard his voice. He was in the front parlour; he did not stay long; I saw him when I went into the room to get a light. My sis- ter said she was going out with him; this was between seven and eight o'clock at night. She went out, and was absent till past 10 o'clock. In the month of March following, I was informed she was pregnant. In the month of March I saw Mr. Burrows, and he asked me if I knew of the circumstance, and I said I did not. He denied ever having been to the house, and I told him he knew better than .that. . Mr. Hyde and Mr. Van Buskirk were with him. I told him that I had heard his voice, and he asked me ho 'w I could-hear it, and I said because he whispered. Mr. Burrows, before this conversation,

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