The life and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett
Subtitle: apprentice to an attorney at law, who for a murder which he never committed, was tried, condemned, executed, and hung in chains, in old England; yet lived many years afterwards, and in his travels found the man in the West Indies actually alive; for the supposed murder of whom he had been really executed. : Demonstratively proving, that condemnations upon circumstantial evidence are injurious to innocence, incompatible with justice, and therefore ought always to be discountenanced, especially in cases of life and death. : To which is added, an account of John Matthieson, an ingenious Scotsman, lately executed in London, for forging the notes of the Bank of England
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 18505
Publisher: Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street.
Published: 1784
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Executions and executioners; Murder; Circumstantial Evidence; Forgery; Shipwrecks
Other titles: Adventures of Ambrose Gwinett.
Work titles: Life and strange unparallel'd and unheard-of voyages and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett
Notes: Running title: The adventures of Ambrose Gwinnet.

Attributed to Isaac Bickerstaff in the Dictionary of national biography.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴.

"A narrative of the extraordinary adventures of four Russian sailors ..."--p. [23]-32. By Pierre Louis Le Roy.

Bookseller's advertisements, p. 16 and 32.

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