The last words of William Huggins and John Mansfield : who are to be executed this day, June 19th, 1783, at Worcester, in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, for burglary, committed in October last.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Huggins, William, 1759-1783.

Contributor:

Mansfield, John, 1761?-1783.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17994.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Executions and executioners--Massachusetts--Worcester.

Executions and executioners.

Crime--Massachusetts.

Crime.

Burglary--Massachusetts.

Burglary.

Massachusetts.

Massachusetts--Worcester.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Elegies.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) ; 57 x 49 cm

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

[Worcester, Mass.] : Printed and sold at the printing-office in Worcester [by Isaiah Thomas], [1783]

Notes:

Text, in five columns separated by heavy black rules, includes an autobiographical affidavit by each man, and a joint statement signed and dated: William Huggins. John Mansfield. Worcester-goal, June 18, 1783.

At foot, also in five columns, are seventy-two lines of verse, entitled: Mansfield's soliloquy! Or an elegy on the execution of Huggins and Mansfield for burglary.

"Having given the foregoing accounts of our lives ... we would here observe ... the sir-names [sic] 'Huggins' and 'Mansfield' are only names we took to ourselves to prevent our real ones from being known."--fourth column.

Isaiah Thomas was the only printer active at Worcester, Mass., in 1783.

Relief cut of a double hanging at head.

Printed area, including mourning border, measures 49.9 x 41.4 cm.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17994).

Cited in:

Evans 17994

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2360

Contains:

Mansfield, John, 1761?-1783. Mansfield's soliloquy! Or an elegy on the execution of Huggins and Mansfield for burglary.

OCLC:

55829155