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
• 1844: John Knatchbull, moral madman
• 1995: Franklin Thomas, David Thomas, and Douglas Hamlet, the last in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• 1818: Samuel Godfrey, American picaro
• 1945: 59 collaborationists in Bulgaria
• 1864: Bizoton Affair executions
• 1859: Father Paul Loc, Vietnamese martyr
• 2009: Minurul Islam and two friends, for a dowry death
• 1892: Two Georgian bandits, witnessed by Stalin
• 1906: William Williams, the last hanged in Minnesota
• 1542: Kathryn Howard, the rose without a thorn
• 1942: Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan, Japanese spy