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H-ds-n's speech from the pillory
Date: [1762]
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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
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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
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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
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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]
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The divine compassions declar'd and magnified: to engage and encourage the greatest sinners unto a speedy and earnest repentance . A sermon, preach'd at the lecture in Boston, June 2. 1715. Upon the sorrowful occasion of a miserable woman present, under sentence of death for the murder of her spurious infant. By Benjamin Colman, A.M.
Benjamin ColmanDate: 1715
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The hainous nature of the sin of murder . And the great happiness of deliverance from it. As it was represented in a sermon at the lecture in Boston, Sept. 24. 1713. Before the execution of one David Wallis. By Benjamin Colman, Pastor of a church in Boston.
Benjamin ColmanDate: 1713
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Christ's promise to the penitent thief . A sermon preached the Lord's-Day before the execution of Levi Ames, who suffered death for burglary, Oct. 21, 1773. Aet. 22. By Andrew Eliot, D.D. Pastor of a church in Boston. [Two lines from Grotius] N.B. This discourse was preache at the desire of the prisoner, who was present when it was delivered.
Andrew EliotDate: 1773
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The converted sinner The nature of a conversion to real and vital piety: and the manner in which it is to be pray'd & striv'n for. A sermon preached in Boston, May 31, 1724. In the hearing and at the desire of certain pirates, a little before their execution. To which there is added, a more private conference of a minister with them. [Two lines of quotation].
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1724
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A sorrowful spectacle In two sermons, occasioned by a just sentence of death, on a miserable woman, for the murder of a spurious offspring. The one declaring, the evil of an heart hardened, under and against all means of good. The other describing, the fearful case of such as in a suffering time, and much more such as in a dying hour, are found without the fear of God. With some remarkable things, relating to the criminal; proper for all to be informed of. By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. [One line from Acts].
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1715
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A Mournful poem on the death of John Ormsby and Matthew Cushing , who were appointed to be executed on Boston Neck, the 17th of October, 1734.
Date: 1734]