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- dying criminal.
- by Robert Young, ; on his own execution, which is to be on this day, November 11th, 1779, for a rape committed on the body of Jane Green, a child, eleven years of age, at Brookfield, in the county of Worcester, on the third day of September last. Corrected from his own manuscript., Verse in seventeen stanzas, printed in two columns divided by mourning rule; first line: Attend, ye youth! if ye would fain be old., Isaiah Thomas was the only printer active at Worcester, Mass., in 1779., Text in two columns; printed area measures 36.2 x 18.9 cm., Woodcut of hanging with gibbet, crowd, and cart., N-YHS copy imperfect: mutilated, with some loss of text and imprint; fabric lining.
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- new touch on the times.
- By a daughter of liberty, living in Marblehead., Verse of eighty-four lines, describing the severe shortages and economic conditions which existed in Marblehead and other coastal towns between 1776 and 1780; first line: Our best beloved they are gone., Author from final couplet: Molly Gutridge composition ..., "Probably printed by Ezekiel Russell ..."--Tapley. Salem imprints, p. 333. One of the cuts illustrating this broadside poem was also included in the Downfall of justice (Evans 14740) printed by Russell in 1776., Dated [1778] by Tapley, [1779] by Ford, and [1779?] by Bristol. In 1779 Russell was printing at Danvers, Mass., Text in two columns divided by a single rule; printed area measures 31.8 x 18.9 cm., Two woodcut illustrations, the first showing a domestic interior with a seated woman and three children with the figure of Justice with scales in the background, the second showing a woman in a tricorn hat bearing a rifle and powder horn., N-YHS copy slightly mutilated, with some loss of text.