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The dying criminal : a poem / by Robert Young ; on his own execution, which was on Thursday last, November 11th, 1779, for a rape committed on the body of Jane Green, a child, eleven years of age, at Brookfield, in the county of Worcester, on the 3d day of September last ; corrected from his own manuscript.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young, Robert, 1749 or 50-1779.
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Executions and executioners--Massachusetts--Worcester--Poetry--Early works to 1800.
- Executions and executioners.
- Criminals--Massachusetts--Brookfield--Poetry--Early works to 1800.
- Criminals.
- Rape--Massachusetts--Brookfield--Poetry--Early works to 1800.
- Rape.
- Young, Robert, 1749 or 50-1779--Death and burial--Poetry--Early works to 1800.
- Young, Robert.
- Green, Jane, b. 1768--Death and burial--Poetry--Early works to 1800.
- Green, Jane.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 broadside )
- Other Title:
- Dying criminal
- Attend ye youth!
- Place of Publication:
- New-London [Conn.] : Sold at the printing-office, [1779]
- Notes:
- Verse in seventeen stanzas; first line: "Attend, ye youth! if ye would fain be old."
- Text in two columns; printed area measures 36.2 x 18.9 cm.
- Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.
- Sabin no. 106091.
- Cited in:
- RLIN, CTRG05-B10409
- OCLC:
- 123535997
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