The last words of William Huggins and John Mansfield
Subtitle: who are to be executed this day, June 19th, 1783, at Worcester, in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, for burglary, committed in October last
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 17994
Publisher: Printed and sold at the printing-office in Worcester [by Isaiah Thomas
Published: 1783
Place of publication: Worcester, Mass.
Language: eng
Subjects: Executions and executioners; Crime; Burglary
Notes: Text, in five columns separated by heavy black rules, includes an autobiographical affidavit by each man, and a joint statement signed and dated: William Huggins. John Mansfield. Worcester-goal, June 18, 1783.

At foot, also in five columns, are seventy-two lines of verse, entitled: Mansfield's soliloquy! Or an elegy on the execution of Huggins and Mansfield for burglary.

"Having given the foregoing accounts of our lives ... we would here observe ... the sir-names [sic] 'Huggins' and 'Mansfield' are only names we took to ourselves to prevent our real ones from being known."--fourth column.

Isaiah Thomas was the only printer active at Worcester, Mass., in 1783.

Relief cut of a double hanging at head.

Printed area, including mourning border, measures 49.9 x 41.4 cm.

Evans 17994

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