The confession of Joseph Baker, a Canadian by birth, who, for murder & piracy committed on the high seas on board the schooner Eliza, Captain Wm. Wheland, in a voyage from Philadelphia bound to St. Thomas's
Subtitle: who was tried on the 25th of April, 1800 before the Hon. Samuel Chase and Richard Peters, judges of the District Court of the United States, for the District of Pennsylvania, and now under sentence of death, in the solitary cells of the pentitentiary house of the city and county of Philadelphia.
Publisher: Printed by Richard Folwell ...
Published: 1800
Place of publication: [Philadelphia]
Language: eng
Subjects: Baker, Joseph, -- 1779-1800?; Brous, Joseph, -- d. 1800?; Peterson, Peter, -- d. 1800?; Eliza (Schooner); Murderers -- Biography; Pirates -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Baker's confederates were Joseph Brous and Peter Peterson.

Signatures: [A]⁴.

Evans 36873

McDade, T.M.  Murder, 62

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