vanderburg

Updated: May 27, 2025

And the little man with the twisted face, who sat across from her, gnawing a peach stone clean, was the notorious "Doctor" Harris Devine, alias Vanderburg, her accomplice, and worth more now to society in his present untidy state than ever before at any one moment of his whole discreditable life, since for his capture the people of the state of New York stood willing to pay the sum of one thousand dollars, which tidy reward one of the afternoon papers had increased by another thousand.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - The Escape of Mr. Trimm: His Plight and other Plights

However, in a few years he succeeded in extricating himself from his difficulties and again became an enterprising and useful citizen. At the first general election in this province Mr. Beckwith and James Simonds were candidates for the County of Sunbury, their opponents being Capt. Richard Vanderburg and William Hubbard.

W. O. (William Odber) Raymond - Glimpses of the Past: History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784