The address of Abraham Johnstone, a black man, who was hanged at Woodbury, in the county of Glocester, and state of New Jersey, on Saturday the the [sic] 8th day of July last; to the people of colour. To which is added his dying confession or declaration also, a copy of a letter to his wife, written the day previous to his execution.
Johnstone, Abraham,-1797.
Philadelphia : [s.n.] Printed for the purchasers,
1797.
Ascribed by Evans to the press of Robert Bell. However, the Philadelphia printer and publisher Robert Bell died in 1784, and no one else of that name is known to have printed in Philadelphia in the eighteenth century.
Johnstone was hanged for the murder of Thomas Read, "a Guinea Negro." - "My real name is Benjamin Johnstone. But when I came to Jersey changed it, took my brothers viz. Abraham Johnstone."--p. [32].
ESTC
Evans 32320