Crime - Massachusetts - Boston
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H-ds-n's speech from the pillory
Date: [1762]- E-books
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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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Murder a great and crying sin A sermon preach'd on the Lord's-Day March 4th. 1732-3. To a poor prisoner under sentence of death for that crime. By Samuel Checkley, A.M. Pastor of a church of Christ in Boston. [Five lines of Scripture texts].
Checkley, Samuel, 1696-1769.Date: 1733- E-books
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The last speech and dying words of John Ormsby , who was appointed to be executed on Boston Neck, the 17th of October, 1734. Written with his own hand, the day before he was to suffer; and recommended to all people, for their serious perusal.
Ormsby, John, d. 1734.Date: 1734- E-books
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Advertisement . Ran away yesterday morning from the house of Mrs. Clough, at the North End, an Irish fellow named William Haly, and robb'd his bedfellow Thomas Tubbs ..
Tubbs, Thomas.Date: 1753]