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God's revenge against murder, or, The drown'd wife : A tragedy, as lately performed, with unbounded applause, (of the Devil and his court) by Ned Findley, Esquire, one of the grand company of tragedians in the service of the Black Prince, who was so highly gratified with Ned's performance, that he instantly provided him rooms in one of his own palaces, created him a knight of the most ignoble order of the halter; clapped bracelets on his wrists, and an ornament round his neck; and in a few days promoted him to the ridge pole of the gallows, at Edgefield Court-House, South Carolina / By M.L. Weems, of Lodge no. 50, Dumfries.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Findley, Mary.
- Middleton, Hugh.
- Findley, Ned, -1804.
- Findley, Ned.
- Murder--South Carolina--Edgefield.
- Murder.
- South Carolina--Edgefield.
- Physical Description:
- 40 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Eleventh edition, enlarged.
- Other Title:
- Sorrowful life and cruel death of Mary Findley
- Drown'd wife
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed for the Author, 1823.
- Notes:
- Caption title: The sorrowful life and cruel death of Mary Findley, (daughter of Major Hugh Middleton, Edgefield District, South-Carolina) who after giving a handsome fortune to a most depraved husband, was barbarously murdered by him in eight weeks after marriage!!!
- McDade, T.M. The annals of murder, 1961 (entry 305) records the 3rd ed. with this comment: "The case is not mentioned in Jack Kenny Williams' Vogues in villainy (Columbia; University of South Carolina Press, 1959), a history of ante-bellum crime in South Carolina, and could be another of the Parson's [i.e., Weems's] whimseys."
- Printed blue paper covers.
- Local Notes:
- Bound with: Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke). The drunkard's looking glass. [Philadelphia?] : Printed for the Author, 1818. (Item 3 of 4)
- Cited in:
- Shoemaker 14865
- Sabin 102474
- OCLC:
- 9316306
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