I am now to finish a life, which, long since, by the equitable laws of my country, I justly forfeited
Subtitle: ... May all ... take warning by the awful spectacle which this body of mine will exhibit, when suspended in the place destined for its suffering. ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 41487
Publisher: Printed and sold by Z. Fowle, at his printing-office in Back-Street.
Published: 1764
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Burglary; Crime; Executions and executioners
Notes: Confession and dying warning of John Shearman, who was apprehended in Boston, and executed, for burglary, at Newport, R.I., on November 16, 1764. Signed: John Shearman.

The only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, is a fragment, lacking the top half of the sheet. Title from extant text. Cf. Bristol B2515 for a similar broadside, printed at Boston by Richard and Samuel Draper.

Text in three columns.

Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.

Bristol B2516

Shipton & Mooney 41487