A Poem occasioned by the untimely death of Hugh Henderson, alias John Hamilton
Subtitle: who was hangd [sic] at Worcester for house-breaking. Nov. 24. 1737. : [Two lines from Sir J. Denham]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 4144
Publisher: Printed and sold [by Samuel Kneeland and Timothy Green] at the printing house in Queen Street over against the prison.
Published: 1737
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Burglary; Crime; Executions and executioners
Other titles: How fatal is the sinner's path!
Notes: Verse of 139 lines; first line: How fatal is the sinner's path!

Followed by: The confession and dying warning of Hugh Henderson, who was executed at Worcester, in the county of Worcester, Nov. 26 [i.e., 24]. 1737. Signed: Hugh Henderson. Sign'd with his mark. A true copy examin'd, per Ebr. Parkman.

Samuel Kneeland and Timothy Green operated the printing house in Queen Street, Boston, in 1737.

Text in four columns; printed area measures 31.6 x 37.4 cm. First two columns, on left half of sheet, include the poem with relief cut of a hanging (Reilly 1175) at right of title. Third and fourth columns, on right half of sheet, contain Henderson's confession and imprint at foot. Two halves of sheet possibly intended to be separated.

Evans 4144

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 679

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 201