The narrative of Whiting Sweeting
Subtitle: who was executed at Albany, the 26th August, 1791. : Containing, an account of his trial before the Supreme Court of Judicature of the state of New-York, at the July term, 1791, for the murder of Darius Quimby; the substance of the charge of His Honor the chief-justice to the jury, with the sentence of death on the prisoner ...
By: Written by himself, and published for the benefit of precious souls, at his particular and dying request. ; --To which are added--an account of the behaviour of the unhappy sufferer, from his confinement to execution, and the substance of his address at the gallows. By one who had free access to, and frequent conversation with him
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 46293
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1791
Place of publication: Albany?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Trials (Murder); Executions and executioners; Murder
Notes: Bristol and McDade suggest [Albany?, 1791] as place and date of publication. The edition printed by Silvester Tiffany of Lansingburgh (Evans 23814) includes an advertisement criticizing a "spurious publication, by Mr. Barber," and the present edition has been taken to be that publication, printed by John Barber at Albany in 1791. However, from the exchange between Tiffany and John and Robert Barber throughout September in the American spy (Lansingburgh) and the Albany register, it appears that Barber published not a pirate edition of Sweeting's Narrative, but rather an entirely separate work on the same subject. The present edition follows the text of the Narrative as published by Sweeting, and therefore seems not to be the Barber publication criticized by Tiffany.

Signatures: A-D⁶ E1,2,3.

"A short account of the life, conversation, parting advice, and execution of Whiting Sweeting--by William Carter."--p. 48-54.

Bristol B7835

Shipton & Mooney 46293

McDade, T.M. Murder, 960a