The execution hymn, composed on Levi Ames : who is to be executed for burglary, this day, the 21st of October, 1773, which was sung to him and a considerable audience, assembled at the prison, on Tuesday evening, the 19th of October, and, at the desire of the prisoner, will be sung at the place of execution, this day. : To which is annexed, The Christian exercises and dying soliloquy, or the comfortable hope and wonderful conversion of Levi Ames ... / By Elhanan Winchester, of Rehoboth, author of the execution hymn.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Winchester, Elhanan, 1751-1797, author.

Series:

• Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42544.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Ames, Levi, 1752-1773.
• Executions and executioners--Massachusetts--Boston.
• Crime--Massachusetts.
• Burglary--Massachusetts.
• Burglary.
• Crime.
• Executions and executioners.
• Massachusetts.
• Massachusetts--Boston.

Genre:

• Broadsides.
• Poems -- 1773.
• Hymns.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : Sold by E. Russell, next the cornfield, Union-Street., [1773]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

• The execution hymn; first line: Come, see the pow'r of Christ, the King.
• The Christian exercises and dying soliloquy; first lines: Hearken, good people, and attend the counsel of a dying friend.
• Relief cut of an execution at head (Reilly 1180). Hymn in two columns on top half of sheet; the Christian exercises, in verse, in three columns below hymn.
• 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 42544).

Cited in:

• Bristol B3678
• Shipton and Mooney 42544

Contains:

Winchester, Elhanan, 1751-1797. Christian exercises and dying soliloquy.

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