Person:Richard Kingsmore (1)

Notes

From "Cooke vs. Curtis", Reports of cases argued and determined in the General Court of Maryland, vol. 6, by Maryland. Court of Appeals, Thomas Harris, Reverdy Johnson, Maryland.:

On this 17th day of July 1819, before the subscriber, a justice qf the peace in and for the county aforesaid, comes Dr. Richard S. Kingsmore, of Baltimore county, and makes oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that in the year 1809 or 1810, or thereabouts, he delivered Bebecca Cooke, wife of William Cooke, of Patapsco Neck, of a female child, that the child was born alive, that he assisted in the dressing it, and left it alive in five or six hours after its birth, that the child had arrived at maturity, and gave as satisfactory and full evidence of life as any child could give; that the child had been, injured in the attempts to bring it into the world before he arrived, and he supposes these injuries produced its death after he went away. Sworn to before

John F. Harris, Justice of Peace, Baltimore Cty."

The plaintiff then offered to prove, by several competent witnesscs, that the child to whose birth the said deposition refers, was not bom alive as stated in the said deposition, but dead; and that the deponent, Dr. Kingsmore, was not present at the birth of any of the children of the Mrs. Cooke mentioned in the said deposition. The defendant then, to corroborate thp testimony of the said deponent, offered to prove by a good and competent witness, that said Kingsmore, two or three days after the birth of the child mentioned in the deposition, and before the date of the deposition, did declare the same facts stated as. he had deposed to. Which testimony the court refused to let go to the jury the court being divided in opinion; the defendant excepted, and the verdict and judgement being against him, he appealed to this court.

Batlimore County Death Notice:

WALKER, John, equestrian, Balto., d Mon, at house of Richard S. KINGSMORE of Patapsco Neck, (Harford Co., MD) Nov 13, 1799

1. ↑ International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).