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Executions and executioners - Rhode Island - Newport
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Sinners directed to hear & fear, and do no more so wickedly. Being an impartial account of the inhumane and barbarbous murder, committed by Jeremiah Meacham, on his wife and her sister, at Newport on Rhode-Island, March 22d. 1715. With some account of his life, tryal, carriage before and after condemnation; his confession, prayers, and last dying words at the place of execution, which was April the 12th. 1715. Also a sermon preached in his hearing: on Psalm LI. 17. By Mr. Nathaniel Clap, Minister of the Gospel in Newport, Rhode-Island.
Clap, Nathaniel, 1669-1745.Date: 1715- Books
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Useful remarks. An essay upon remarkables in the way of wicked men. A sermon on the tragical end, unto which the way of twenty-six pirates brought them; at New Port on Rhode-Island, July 19, 1723. With an account of their speeches, letters, & actions, before their execution. [Two lines from Deuteronomy]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1723- Books
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An Account of the pirates, with divers of their speeches, letters, &c. and a poem, made by one of them: who were executed at Newport, on Rhode-Island, July 19th, 1723.
Date: Re-printed in the year 1769