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Last dying words and confession of Charles Gibbs, the pirate : with an addenda by a lady.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibbs, Charles, 1794?-1831, author.
- Series:
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gibbs, Charles, 1794?-1831.
- Gibbs, Charles.
- Vineyard (Brig).
- Pirates--United States.
- Pirates.
- Brigands and robbers--United States.
- Brigands and robbers.
- Murder--Atlantic Ocean.
- Murder.
- Executions and executioners--New York (State)--New York.
- Executions and executioners.
- Last words.
- Sin--Poetry.
- Sin.
- Repentance--Poetry.
- Repentance.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Atlantic Ocean.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (20 pages) : illustrations.
- Manufacture:
- New-York : Printed and sold by Christian Brown, 1831.
- Other Title:
- Confession of Charles Gibbs, the pirate, to be executed the 22d of April, 1831
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1831]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Charles Gibbs and Thomas J. Wansley were tried and convicted of murdering William Thornby and William Roberts, captain and first mate of the brig Vineyard, in November 1830; they were hanged in New York in 1831.
- Notes:
- The title is printed to the sides of and below a title-page illustration of the execution. At head of title: "Whosoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed."
- "It has recently been ascertained that his real name is Jas. Jeffries, instead of Charles Gibbs."--Page 16.
- This is a reissue of "Confession of Charles Gibbs the pirate" (McDade 337) with the addition of a new title leaf and an additional leaf (conjugate with the new title leaf) at end. The "Addenda" begins on the verso of the new title leaf (which is numbered "18") and continues on page 19 (the recto of the added leaf at end). Also on the added leaf are "The aspirations of a contrite sinner before death" (pages 19-20, in verse) and "Last dying words" (page 20).
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 937013737
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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