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 and Samuel Draper?
Published: 1764
Place of publication: [Boston
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Richardson, John; Richardson, Ann; Child abuse -- Poetry; Child abuse -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Crime -- Poetry; Crime -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Genres: Poetry
Notes: Verse in nineteen stanzas; first line: Adieu to wanton jests, both false and vain

Text in two columns; relief cut of an execution (Reilly 1179) at head

Recorded twice by Bristol, among imprints for 1764 and 1773 respectively. In the latter entry, Bristol followed Ford in inferring 1773 as date of publication from the publication in that year of another broadside with the same relief cut (A Solemn farewell to Levi Ames, Boston : printed and sold at Draper's printing-office, in Newbury-Street; Shipton & Mooney 42506).  The cut, however, seems to have been in use as early as 1734; see A Mournful poem on the death of John Ormsby and Matthew Cushing (Shipton & Mooney 40054)

Bristol B2478

Bristol B3578

Shipton & Mooney 42454

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 1686

Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series

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