Concept
Executions and executioners - Massachusetts - Boston
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
The last speech and dying advice of poor Julian, who was executed the 22d of March, 1733. for the murder of Mr. John Rogers of Pembroke. Written with his own hand, and delivered to the publisher the day before his execution.
Julian, -1733.Date: [1733]- Books
- Online
Paradise promised, by a dying Saviour, to the penitent thief on the cross. A sermon delivered at Cambridge, on Thursday, the eighteenth of November, immediately preceding the execution of Alexander White, Richard Barrick, and John Sullivan: with an appendix, exhibiting som account of their conversation and behaviour in prison, &c. By Timothy Hilliard, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Cambridge.
Hilliard, Timothy, 1747-1790.Date: [1785]- Books
- Online
Death the certain wages of sin to the impenitent: life the sure reward of grace to the penitent: together with the only way for youth to avoid the former, and attain the latter. Deliver'd in three lecture sermons; occasioned by the imprisonment, condemnation and execution, of a young woman, who was guilty of murdering her infant begotten in whoredom. To which is added, an account of her manner of life & death, in which the glory of free grace is displayed. By Mr. John Rogers, Pastor of the Church of Ipswich. [One line from Timothy]
Rogers, John, 1666-1745.Date: 1701- Books
- Online
Tremenda. The dreadful sound with which the wicked are to be thunderstruck. In a sermon delivered unto a great assembly, in which was present, a miserable African, just going to be executed for a most inhumane and uncommon murder. At Boston, May 25th. 1721. To which is added, a conference between a minister and the prisoner, on the day before his execution. [One line from Deuteronomy]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1721- Books
- Online
The divine compassions declar'd and magnified: to engage and encourage the greatest sinners unto a speedy and earnest repentance. A sermon, preach'd at the lecture in Boston, June 2. 1715. Upon the sorrowful occasion of a miserable woman present, under sentence of death for the murder of her spurious infant. By Benjamin Colman, A.M.
Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747.Date: 1715