Executions and executioners - Massachusetts - Boston
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Tremenda The dreadful sound with which the wicked are to be thunderstruck. In a sermon delivered unto a great assembly, in which was present, a miserable African, just going to be executed for a most inhumane and uncommon murder. At Boston, May 25th. 1721. To which is added, a conference between a minister and the prisoner, on the day before his execution. [One line from Deuteronomy].
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1721- E-books
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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.
Hilliard, Timothy, 1747-1790.Date: [1785]- E-books
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Poor Julleyoun's warnings to children and servants to shun the ways of sin, and those particularly which hath brought him to his doleful end.
Julian, d. 1733.Date: [1733]- E-books
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The prayer and plea of David, to be delivered from blood-guiltiness , improved in a sermon at the ancient Thursday-lecture in Boston, May 16th 1751. Before the execution of a young Negro servant, for poisoning an infant. By Mr. Byles. [Four lines from Psalms].
Byles, Mather, 1707-1788.Date: 1751- E-books
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The last words and dying speech of Levi Ames , who was executed at Boston, on Thursday the 21st day of October, 1773, for burglary. Taken from his own mouth, and published at his desire, as a solemn warning to all, more particularly young people. [One line from Proverbs].
Ames, Levi, 1752-1773.Date: [1773]