Anthony Vaver’s captivating Early American Crime blog neatly summarizes this story. But for readers with a taste for an original colonial hanging-pamphlet, read on …
On this day..
- 1879: Anders Larsson, the first private execution in Sweden - 2020
- 1844: John Knatchbull, moral madman - 2019
- 1995: Franklin Thomas, David Thomas, and Douglas Hamlet, the last in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - 2018
- 1818: Samuel Godfrey, American picaro - 2017
- 1945: 59 collaborationists in Bulgaria - 2016
- 1864: Bizoton Affair executions - 2014
- 1859: Father Paul Loc, Vietnamese martyr - 2013
- 2009: Minurul Islam and two friends, for a dowry death - 2012
- 1892: Two Georgian bandits, witnessed by Stalin - 2011
- 1906: William Williams, the last hanged in Minnesota - 2010
- 1542: Kathryn Howard, the rose without a thorn - 2009
- 1942: Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan, Japanese spy - 2008