Paradise promised, by a dying Saviour, to the penitent thief on the cross . A sermon delivered at Cambridge, on Thursday, the eighteenth of November, immediately preceding the execution of Alexander White, Richard Barrick, and John Sullivan: with an appendix, exhibiting som account of their conversation and behaviour in prison, &c. By Timothy Hilliard, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Cambridge.

A narrative of the life and conversion of Alexander White, aet. 23.  Who was executed at Cambridge, November 18, 1784, for the murder of a Captain White, at sea. Containing extracts from his manuscripts, and some letters written by him a short time before his execution.

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White, Alexander, 1762-1784.

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A narrative of the life and conversion of Alexander White, aet. 23. Who was executed at Cambridge, November 18, 1784, for the murder of a Captain White, at sea. Containing extracts from his manuscripts, and some letters written by him a short time before his execution.