The dying criminal
Subtitle: a poem
By: by Robert Young, ; on his own execution, which is to be on this day, November 11th, 1779, for a rape committed on the body of Jane Green, a child, eleven years of age, at Brookfield, in the county of Worcester, on the third day of September last. Corrected from his own manuscript
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43738
Publisher: by Isaiah Thomas
Published: 1779
Place of publication: Printed and sold at the printing-office, in Worcester [Mass
Language: eng
Subjects: Executions and executioners; Crime; Rape
Other titles: Attend, ye youth! if ye would fain be old.
Notes: Verse in seventeen stanzas; first line: Attend, ye youth! if ye would fain be old.

Isaiah Thomas was the only printer active at Worcester, Mass., in 1779.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 36.2 x 18.9 cm.

Bristol B4999

Shipton & Mooney 43738

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2211

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 470