this is
My advice and more in particular to mixt coulard people and
youths of Every Kind. May the Blessing of god Desend upon you
all Amen."
In the "Essex Gazette," Jan. 15, 1771, is an advertisement of a poem
upon an execution.
_To be sold at the Printing-Office_, Salem.
A POEM on the Execution of
_William Shaw_, at _Springfield_, December 13, 1770, for the
Murder of _Edward East_, in _Springfield_ Gaol.
We have seen an account of an execution where a sermon was preached at
the prisoner's request.
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BOSTON COMMON AS A PLACE OF EXECUTION.
Boston Common was formerly often used for such a purpose. Quakers were
hanged there in the middle of the seventeenth century, and we find in
the "Salem Mercury" for Tuesday, Nov. 27, 1787, that the previous
Thursday one John Sheehan was executed for burglary in this noted
locality. Sheehan was a native of Cork in Ireland. With its cows and
its executions, the Common must have presented a somewhat different
appearance in those days from what it does at this time.
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