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Last words and dying confession of Samuel Frost : who was executed at Worcester, on Thursday the thirty-first day Of October, 1793, for the inhuman and cruel murder of Captain Elisha Allen, of Princeton.

Author/creator Frost, Samuel, 1765-1793
Other author/creatorFrost, Samuel, 1765-1793. Confession and dying words of Samuel Frost.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Boston] : [Printed by E. Russell] Sold by Jonathan Plummer, travelling-trader, in Newbury. ..., [1793]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) ; 54 x 40 cm
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 49396. ^A478749
General note"The foregoing account was taken from the mouth of Samuel Frost, in prison."
General noteEarlier edition has title: Confession and dying words of Samuel Frost.
General noteFollowed by: Account of Samuel Frost. [and] A Poem on the solemn occasion, first line: Review each act on life's important stage. Cf. Evans 26013 for earlier edition of the poem, separately issued.
General noteWith several cuts, including portrait that was used frequently by Ezekiel Russell of Boston.
General noteText in four columns; printed area measures 49.1 x 37.0 cm.
General noteNot in Evans or Bristol.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 49396).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formPoems 1793.
Contains title Account of Samuel Frost.
Contains title Poem on the solemn occasion.

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