Theft and murder! : A poem on the execution of Levi Ames, which is to be on Thursday, the 21st of October inst. for robbing the h[o]use of Mr. Martin Bicker, and was convicted of burglary.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42518.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ames, Levi, 1752-1773.

Ames, Levi.

Bicker, Martin.

Boston Massacre, 1770.

Executions and executioners--Massachusetts--Boston.

Executions and executioners.

Burglary--Massachusetts--Boston.

Burglary.

Massachusetts--Boston.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Poems -- 1773.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : Sold [by Isaiah Thomas] near the Mill-Bridge: and at the printing office near the market., [1773]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Lamenting that the burglar must hang, while murder (id est, the Boston Massacre) goes unavenged.

Verse of sixty-four lines; first line: Come, ye spectators, and behold.

Place and date of publication supplied by Bristol. Ascribed to the press of Isaiah Thomas by the Houghton Library.

Text in two columns; relief cut of an execution at head of title.

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 42518).

Cited in:

Bristol B3657

Shipton and Mooney 42518

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1648

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 792

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