Darius Quimby is recognized as the first known

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to be killed in the line of duty in the

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. Constable Quimby worked for the Albany County Constable's Office of

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. He was killed on January 3, 1791. He may have been an unpaid peace officer. Constable Quimby was killed while attempting to arrest a man named Whiting Sweeting of

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on a

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ing warrant. A 1790 census lists a Darius in the family of Ephraim Quimby there and of an age eligible to be a constable. Sweeting was convicted of murdering Constable Quimby in the July session of the

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and hanged on August 26, 1791.Hanging of Whiting Sweeting for the murder of Constable Darius Quimby
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References

Sources

*http://www.odmp.org/officer/16907-constable-darius-quimby *https://web.archive.org/web/20090201171548/http://reservepolice.org/History_of_Reserves.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20140710161814/http://www.villageofshorewood.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B679B50AE-E6F1-4332-BB6A-FB101F9E6173%7D

External links

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The narrative of Whiting Sweeting : who was executed at Albany, the 26th of August, 1791. : Containing, an account of his trial before the Supreme Court of Judicature of the state of New-York, at the July term, 1791, for the murder of Darius Quimby
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