Inhuman cruelty or villany detected : Being a true relation of the most unheard-of, cruel and barberous intended murder of a bastard child belonging to John and Ann Richardson, of Boston, who confined it in a small room, with scarce any victuals, or cloathing to cover it from the cold or rain, which beat into it, for which crime they were both of them sentenc'd to set on the gallows, with a rope round their necks, &c.
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 42454. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | Verse in nineteen stanzas; first line: Adieu to wanton jests, both false and vain. Text in two columns; relief cut of an execution (Reilly 1179) at head. Recorded twice by Bristol, among imprints for 1764 and 1773 respectively. In the latter entry, Bristol followed Ford in inferring 1773 as date of publication from the publication in that year of another broadside with the same relief cut (A Solemn farewell to Levi Ames, Boston : printed and sold at Draper's printing-office, in Newbury-Street; Shipton & Mooney 42506). The cut, however, seems to have been in use as early as 1734; see A Mournful poem on the death of John Ormsby and Matthew Cushing (Shipton & Mooney 40054). Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston. |