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The last words of William Huggins and John Mansfield [electronic resource] : who are to be executed this day, June 19th, 1783, at Worcester, in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, for burglary, committed in October last
Bib ID 3365968
Format BookBook, OnlineOnline
Author
Huggins, William, 1759-1783
 
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Description [Worcester, Mass.] : Printed and sold at the printing-office in Worcester [by Isaiah Thomas, 1783] 
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (relief cut) ; 57 x 49 cm. 
Series

Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 17994.

Notes

Text, in five columns separated by heavy black rules, includes an autobiographical affidavit by each man, and a joint statement signed and dated: William Huggins. John Mansfield. Worcester-goal, June 18, 1783.

At foot, also in five columns, are seventy-two lines of verse, entitled: Mansfield's soliloquy! Or an elegy on the execution of Huggins and Mansfield for burglary.

"Having given the foregoing accounts of our lives ... we would here observe ... the sir-names [sic] 'Huggins' and 'Mansfield' are only names we took to ourselves to prevent our real ones from being known."--fourth column.

Isaiah Thomas was the only printer active at Worcester, Mass., in 1783.

Relief cut of a double hanging at head.

Printed area, including mourning border, measures 49.9 x 41.4 cm.

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.

Cited In

Evans 17994

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2360

Reproduction Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 17994). Mode of access : World Wide Web. 
Subjects Executions and executioners -- Massachusetts -- Worcester.  |  Crime -- Massachusetts.  |  Burglary -- Massachusetts.
Form/genre Broadsides.  |  Elegies.
Place United States Massachusetts Worcester.
Other authors/contributors Mansfield, John, 1761?-1783  |  Mansfield, John, 1761?-1783. Mansfield's soliloquy! Or an elegy on the execution of Huggins and Mansfield for burglary

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