Note 246 — Chapter VII · Lynch-law and its Justification
Reading edition
Colonial Laws of New York, I, 765–766.
Compare law of Aug. 8, 1688, in the Island of Barbadoes, which provided that two justices and three freeholders were to “give sentence of Death upon” negroes, for murder, rape, burning houses, &c.—Acts of Assembly Passed in the Island of Barbadoes, From 1648, to 1718 (1721), pp. 140–141.