Sketches of the life of Joseph Mountain
Subtitle: a Negro, who was executed at New-Haven, on the 20th day of October, 1790, for a rape, committed on the 26th day of May last. : (The writer of this history has directed that the money arising from the sales thereof, after deducting the expence of printing, &c. be given to the unhappy girl, whose life is rendered wretched by the crime of the malefactor.)
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 45855
Publisher: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Patten.
Published: 1790
Place of publication: Hartford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
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 foregoing narrative assures the public, that the facts related were taken from the mouth of the culprit."--note, p. [15], signed: Joseph Peck. Samuel Punderson.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in title transcription.

Advertised in the American Mercury, Oct. 25, 1790, as "just printed by Nathaniel Patten."

Signatures: [A]⁴ B⁴ (B4 verso blank).

Bristol B7349

Shipton & Mooney 45855