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The last words and dying speech of Ezra Ross, James Buchanan and William Brooks : who were executed at Worcester on Thursday the 2d day of July 1778, for the murder of Mr. Joshua Spooner, of Brookfield. Bathsheba Spooner, who was convicted of being accessary to the murder of her husband, was also executed at the same time.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ross, Ezra, 1761-1778, author.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43424.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spooner, Joshua.
- Spooner, Bathsheba, 1746-1778.
- Spooner, Bathsheba.
- Executions and executioners--Massachusetts--Worcester.
- Executions and executioners.
- Crime--Massachusetts--Brookfield.
- Crime.
- Murder--Massachusetts--Brookfield.
- Murder.
- Massachusetts--Brookfield (Town).
- Massachusetts--Worcester.
- Genre:
- Broadsides.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston?] : [publisher not identified], [1778?]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Signed: James Buchanan, Ezra Ross, William Brooks, his mark.
- Imprint suggested by Bristol. Textually and typographically similar to Bristol B4654; title and text vary slightly from Bristol B4651, printed in Worcester, Mass., by Isaiah Thomas.
- Text in three columns; printed area, including mourning borders, measures 40.5 x 29.9 cm.
- 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 43424).
- Cited in:
- Bristol B4792
- Shipton and Mooney 43424
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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