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The confession, declaration, dying warning and advice of Patience Sampson, alias Patience Boston, who was executed at York, July 24th. 1735 for the murder of Benjamin Trot of Falmouth in Casco Bay, a child of about eight years of age, which she drowned in a well, July 9th. 1734, and went immediately and accused her self before one of His Majesty's justices of the peace, continuing her self-accusation from first to last; even on her trial; standing to it also from her condemnation, to the very time of her execution [electronic resource].

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Boston, Patience, 1711-1735.
Contributor:
Kneeland, Samuel, 1697-1769, printer.
Green, Timothy, 1703-1763, printer.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Murder--Maine--Falmouth.
Murder.
Crime--Maine--Falmouth.
Crime.
Executions and executioners--Maine--York.
Executions and executioners.
Women as authors.
Boston, Patience, 1711-1735.
Boston, Patience.
Trot, Benjamin, 1727?-1735.
Trot, Benjamin.
Local Subjects:
Women as authors.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (8p. )
Place of Publication:
Boston : Printed and sold by S. Kneeland and T. Green, in Queen Street, 1735.
Notes:
Caption title.
Imprint from colophon.
Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
Cited in:
Evans, 3890
English Short Title Catalog, W38800.
OCLC:
511291718

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