The life and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett : apprentice to an attorney at law, who for a murder which he never committed, was tried, condemned, executed, and hung in chains, in old England; yet lived many years afterwards, and in his travels found the man in the West-Indies, actually alive, for the supposed murder of whom he had been really executed. : Demonstratively proving, that condemnations upon circumstantial evidence are injurious to innocence, incompatible with justice, and therefore ought always to be discountenanced, especially in cases of life and death[.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bickerstaff, Isaac, 1735-1812, author.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 37561.

Standardized Title:

Life and strange unparallel'd and unheard-of voyages and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gwinett, Ambrose.

Murder--England--Deal.

Murder.

Executions and executioners--England--Deal.

Executions and executioners.

Evidence, Circumstantial.

England--Deal.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Printed and sold by J. White, near Charles'-River Bridge., --1800.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Attributed to Isaac Bickerstaff in the Dictionary of national biography.

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 37561).

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Evans 37561

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