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  The confession of Joseph Baker, a Canadian by birth, who, for murder & piracy committed on the high seas, on board the schooner Eliza, Captain Wm. Wheland, in a voyage from Philadelphia bound to St. Thomas, was tried on the 25th of April, 1800, before the Hon. Samuel Chase and Richard Peters, judges of the District Court of the United States, for the District of Pennsylvania, and now under sentence of death, in the solitary cells of the penitentiary house of the city and county of Philadelphia.
  Date of publication:
  1800
  

  Author(s):

  Baker, Joseph, 1779-1800?
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  (Evans-TCP ; no. N27664) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 36873) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; ...
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  The Last words and dying confession of the three pirates, who were executed this day, (May 9th, 1800.)
  Date of publication:
  1800
  

  Author(s):

  Brous, Joseph, d. 1800. ; Baker, Joseph, 1779-1800? ; Peterson, Peter, d. 1800.
  Description:
  The three were convicted of murder and piracy aboard the schooner Eliza. Caption title: Last dying words, confession, &c. At head of frontispiece: Execution of La Croix, Berrouse, & Baker, for piracy.
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  Love to our neighbour explained and urged in a sermon, delivered at Concord, Massachusetts, December 26, 1799, being the day on which Samuel Smith was executed for burglary. / By Ezra Ripley, A.M. Minister of Concord. ; Published for the benefit of criminals.
  Date of publication:
  1800
  

  Author(s):

  Ripley, Ezra, 1751-1841.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N28809) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 38410) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; ...
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  The Cheapside apprentice; or, The history of Mr. Francis H***. Fully setting forth the danger of playing with edge tools. : Shewing also, how a gay life, may prove a short one; and that a merry evening may produce a sorrowful morning.
  Date of publication:
  1800
  

  Author(s):

  More, Sarah, ca. 1743-1817. ; Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780.
  Description:
  At head of title: [Cheap repository. Number 13.] Attributed to Sarah More in: Weiss, Harry B. Hannah More's cheap repository tracts in America. Parentheses substituted for square brackets enclosing price in imprint ...
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