An Address to the inhabitants of Boston, (particulary to the thoughtless youth:) : occasioned by the execution of Levi Ames, who so early in life, as not 22 years of age, must quit the stage of action in this awful manner. He was tried for burglary on the 7th of September, and after a fair and impartial examination of facts, the jury went out but soon return'd, who upon their oaths pronounc'd him guilty...

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42396.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ames, Levi, 1752-1773.

Ames, Levi.

Executions and executioners--Massachusetts--Boston.

Executions and executioners.

Crime--Massachusetts.

Crime.

Burglary--Massachusetts.

Burglary.

Massachusetts.

Massachusetts--Boston.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Poems -- 1773.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)) : illustrations (relief cut)

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : [Printed by Ezekiel Russell], [1773]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Verse in thirty stanzas; first line: The day's far spent, the night comes on apace.

The relief cut of an execution (Reilly 1180) also appeared on Winchester, Elhanan. Execution hymn, composed on Levi Ames ... printed at Boston by Ezekiel Russell (Bristol B3678).

Text in two columns.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 42396).

Cited in:

Bristol B3513

Shipton and Mooney 42396

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1640

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 477b

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