1784, 8 July
Last evening, ye 7th inst. a most horrid murder was committed, between 9 and 10 o'clock, on George Fitler, a shoemaker in Arch near Front St. He was sitting at his door, smoking a pipe, when a villain in a check shirt came up, and run him through the Heart with a knife or dagger, of which he died a few minutes after.
~ Genealogical Gleanings from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker, 1759 to 1807, Page 599 and 600 in Pennsylvania Vital Records, Vol. I, by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Incorporated in 1983.
You can visit the memorial page for George Fitler.
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