Salem, January 16, 1772
Subtitle: An account of the life of Bryan Sheehen, this day executed in Salem, for committing a rape on the body of Abial Hollowell, wife of Benjamin Hollowell, of Marblehead ... Accordingly the following particulars have been collected, chiefly from his own mouth
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 12559
Publisher: To be sold [by Daniel and Robert Fowle] at the printing office Portsmouth, also, verses on said occasion.
Published: 1772
Place of publication: Portsmouth, N.H.
Language: eng
Subjects: Rape; Crime; Executions and executioners
Notes: Daniel and Robert Fowle are the only printers of record at Portsmouth, N.H., in 1772.

Text in three columns, surrounded by mourning border.

Not in Evans or Bristol.

READEX NOTE: Filmed as Evans 12559 by Readex. The wording of the title recorded by Evans varies, and Evans calls for the imprint: Salem: Printed by Samuel and Ebenezer Hall, 1772. Evans locates no copy. "This is apparently the item described by Evans from Hall's advertisement."--Shipton & Mooney.

Shipton & Mooney 12559

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1633