The lives, last words, and dying speech of Ezra Ross, James Buchanan, and William Brooks
Subtitle: who were executed at Worcester, on Thursday the 2d day of July, 1778 for the murder of Mr. Joshua Spooner, of Brookfield. Bathsheba Spooner, who was convicted of being accessary to the murder, was also executed at the same time.
Contributors: Buchanan, James, 1742?-1778.; Brooks, William, 1751?-1778.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43425.
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1778
Place of publication: [Worcester, Mass.?
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Ross, Ezra, -- 1761-1778.; Spooner, Joshua, -- d. 1778.; Spooner, Bathsheba, -- 1746-1778.; Criminals -- Massachusetts.; Executions and executioners -- Massachusetts -- Worcester.; Murder -- Massachusetts -- Brookfield.; Elegiac poetry.
Notes: Signatures: [A]⁴.

Title page illustration (Reilly 1180) is the only illustration.

"The cruel murder: or, A mournful poem, occasioned by the sentence of death being passed upon William Brooks, James Buchanan, Ezra Ross, and Bathsheba Spooner, ..."--p. 7-[8].

Bristol B4793.

Shipton & Mooney 43425.

McDade, T.M.  Murder, 901.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43425).