The last words of Ebenezer Mason
Subtitle: who was executed at Dedham, October 7, 1802; for the murder of William Pitt Allen, his brother in law, on the 18th of May 1802
By: Taken from his own mouth a few hours previous to his execution
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 2607
Publisher: Printed and sold [by H. Mann] at the Minerva-Office.
Published: 1802
Place of publication: Dedham [Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Murder; Crime; People with mental disabilities and crime; Executions and executioners; Insanity (Law); Jurisprudence
Notes: In the introduction, signed by H. Mann, Mason is described as an "unfortunate man" with an intellectual system "insufficient to constitute him a moral agent, and consequently that he is not ameanable for, or ought not to answer with his life for the perpetration of the crime." Mann extracted Mason's last words through a series of questions laid, by him, before the condemned man during several visits in the days and hours before his execution.

Signed: Attest, Samuel Doggett, D. gaoler.

Herman Mann was printer and publisher of the Columbian Minerva at this time.

"Errata."--p. 15.

Shaw & Shoemaker 2607

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.