An Address to the inhabitants of Boston, (particulary [sic] to the thoughtless youth:)
Subtitle: occasioned by the execution of Levi Ames, who so early in life, as not 22 years of age, must quit the stage of action in this awful manner. He was tried for burglary on the 7th of September, and after a fair and impartial examination of facts, the jury went out but soon return'd, who upon their oaths pronounc'd him guilty. ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 42396
Publisher: Printed by Ezekiel Russell
Published: 1773
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Executions and executioners; Crime; Burglary
Other titles: Day's far spent, the night comes on apace.
Notes: Verse in thirty stanzas; first line: The day's far spent, the night comes on apace.

The relief cut of an execution (Reilly 1180) also appeared on Winchester, Elhanan. Execution hymn, composed on Levi Ames ... printed at Boston by Ezekiel Russell (Bristol B3678).

Text in two columns.

Bristol B3513

Shipton & Mooney 42396

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1640

Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 477b