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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.

Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500–1926 Available online

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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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