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The dying criminal: : a poem, / 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
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. New-York Historical copy damaged- with some loss of text and imprint. References: Bristol B4999; Shipton & Mooney 43738; Ford- W.C. Broadsides- 2211; Wegelin- O. Amer. poetry- 470.
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