Inhuman cruelty or villany detected : Being a true relation of the most unheard-of, cruel and barberous intended murder of a bastard child belonging to John and Ann Richardson, of Boston, who confined it in a small room, with scarce any victuals, or cloathing to cover it from the cold or rain, which beat into it, for which crime they were both of them sentenc'd to set on the gallows, with a rope round their necks, &c.
| Format | Book and Microform |
| Publication Info | [Boston] : [Printed by Richard Draper?], [1773?] |
| Description | 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cut) |
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| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42454 Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42454. ^A478749 |
| General note | Verse in nineteen stanzas; first line: Adieu to wanton jests, both false and vain. |
| General note | Printer's name suggested by Bristol. The punishment took place on Oct. 4, 1764; this broadside, however, is dated [1773] by Bristol. |
| General note | Text in two columns; relief cut of an execution, at head. |
| References | Bristol B3578 |
| References | Shipton & Mooney 42454 |
| References | Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1686 |
| Reproduction note | Joyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42454). |
| Genre/form | Broadsides. |
| Genre/form | Poems 1764. |
| Other title | Adieu to wanton jests, both false and vain. |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | NC Microfiche | MICROFICHE AM35E NO. 42454 | ✔ Available |