Inhuman cruelty or villany detected.
Subtitle: 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.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 42454.
Publisher: Printed by Richard Draper?
Published: 1773
Place of publication: [Boston
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Richardson, John.; Richardson, Ann.; Child abuse -- Poetry.; Child abuse -- Massachusetts -- Boston.; Crime -- Poetry.; Criminals -- Massachusetts -- Boston.; Broadsides.
Other titles: Adieu to wanton jests, both false and vain.
Notes: Verse in nineteen stanzas; first line: Adieu to wanton jests, both false and vain.

Printer's name suggested by Bristol. The punishment took place on Oct. 4, 1764; this broadside, however, is dated [1773] by Bristol.

Text in two columns; relief cut of an execution, at head.

Bristol B3578.

Shipton & Mooney 42454.

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 1686.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42454).