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I am now to finish a life, which, long since, by the equitable laws of my country, I justly forfeited. : ... May all .. take warning by the awful spectacle which this body of mine will exhibit, when suspended in the place destined for its suffering. ...
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 41487
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Shearman, John, -1764.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41487.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shearman, John, -1764.
- Shearman, John.
- Burglary--Rhode Island--Newport.
- Burglary.
- Crime--Rhode Island--Newport.
- Crime.
- Executions and executioners--Rhode Island--Newport.
- Executions and executioners.
- Rhode Island--Newport.
- Genre:
- Broadsides.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 22+ x 31 cm
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Place of Publication:
- Boston: : Printed and sold by Z. Fowle, at his printing-office in Back-Street., 1764.
- Notes:
- Confession and dying warning of John Shearman, who was apprehended in Boston, and executed, for burglary, at Newport, R.I., on November 16, 1764. Signed: John Shearman.
- The only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, is a fragment, lacking the top half of the sheet. Title from extant text. Cf. Bristol B2515 for a similar broadside, printed at Boston by Richard and Samuel Draper.
- Text in three columns.
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41487).
- Cited in:
- Bristol B2516
- Shipton & Mooney 41487
- OCLC:
- 55811074
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