The life and adventures of Joseph Mountain, a Negro highwayman
Subtitle: Who practised robbing in England, France, Spain and Holland, about ten years, without detection, and was finally executed at Newhaven, in Connecticut, on the 20th of October, 1790, for committing a rape on the body of a respectable young girl of that town
By: Taken from his own mouth, in presence of reliable witnesses. ; [Eight lines of verse]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 46146
Publisher: Printed by Anthony Haswell
Published: 1791
Place of publication: Bennington, (Vermont)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Rape; African American criminals; Executions and executioners
Notes: First-person narrative, prepared by David Daggett (cf. Dexter's Yale graduates) and signed by Mountain. "The writer of the following narrative assures the public, that the facts related were taken from the mouth of the culprit."--note, p. [2], signed: Joseph Peck. John Punderson. Newhaven, October 1790.

Bristol B7675

Shipton & Mooney 46146

McCorison, M.A. Vermont, 198