The lives, last words, and dying speech of Ezra Ross, James Buchanan, and William Brooks, who were executed at Worcester, on Thursday the 2d day of July, 1778 for the murder of Mr. Joshua Spooner, of Brookfield. Bathsheba Spooner, who was convicted of being accessary to the murder, was also executed at the same time.
| dc.contributor | Text Creation Partnership, |
| dc.contributor.author | Ross, Ezra, 1761-1778. |
| dc.contributor.author | Buchanan, James, 1742?-1778. |
| dc.contributor.author | Brooks, William, 1751?-1778. |
| dc.coverage.placeName | Worcester, Massachusetts |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-25 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-07T17:59:46Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-11-07T17:59:46Z |
| dc.date.created | 1778 |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-09 |
| dc.identifier | ota:N33098 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/N33098 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/N33098 |
| dc.description.abstract | Title page illustration (Reilly 1180) is the only illustration. "The cruel murder: or, A mournful poem, occasioned by the sentence of death being passed upon William Brooks, James Buchanan, Ezra Ross, and Bathsheba Spooner, ..."--p. 7-[8]. |
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| dc.language.iso | eng |
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| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Ross, Ezra, 1761-1778. |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Spooner, Joshua, d. 1778. |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Spooner, Bathsheba, 1746-1778. |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Criminals -- Massachusetts. |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Executions and executioners -- Massachusetts -- Worcester. |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Murder -- Massachusetts -- Brookfield. |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Crime -- Massachusetts. |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Elegies. |
| dc.title | The lives, last words, and dying speech of Ezra Ross, James Buchanan, and William Brooks, who were executed at Worcester, on Thursday the 2d day of July, 1778 for the murder of Mr. Joshua Spooner, of Brookfield. Bathsheba Spooner, who was convicted of being accessary to the murder, was also executed at the same time. |
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| identifier.stc | Shipton 43425 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1700-1799 |
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