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

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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

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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

Subject

• Broadsides
• Child abuse -- Massachusetts | Boston
• Child abuse -- Poetry
• Crime -- Massachusetts | Boston
• Crime -- Poetry
• Poems -- 1764
• Richardson, Ann
• Richardson, John

Genre

• Broadsides
• Poems
• Poetry

Language

eng

Member of

• Early American imprints, First series, no. 42454

Additional physical form

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.

Cataloging source

MWA

Citation location within source

• B2478
• B3578
• 42454
• 1686

Citation source

• Bristol
• Bristol
• Shipton & Mooney
• Ford, W.C. Broadsides

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction