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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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The Lord's voice, crying to his people: in some extraordinary dispensations considered in a sermon, upon Micah VI. 9. Preached 27 d. 1 m. 1715. Occasioned by the terrible tragedies of a man barbarbously murdering his wife and her sister, and then burning his house, March 22, 1715. Together with some account about the poor man written for the benefit of the living. By Nathaniel Clap, M.A. Preacher of the Gospel at N. Port, R. Island.
Clap, Nathaniel, 1669-1745.Date: 1715