I am now to finish a life, which, long since, by the equitable laws of my country, I justly forfeited.
Subtitle: ... May all ... take warning by the awful spectacle which this body of mine will exhibit, when suspended in the place destined for its suffering. ..
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 41487.
Publisher: Printed and sold by Z. Fowle, at his printing-office in Back-Street.
Published: 1764
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Burglary -- Rhode Island -- Newport.; Crime -- Rhode Island.; Crime -- Massachusetts.; Executions and executioners -- Rhode Island -- Newport.
Notes: Confession and dying warning of John Shearman, who was apprehended in Boston, and executed, for burglary, at Newport, R.I., on November 16, 1764. Signed: John Shearman.

The only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, is a fragment, lacking the top half of the sheet. Title from extant text. Cf. Bristol B2515 for a similar broadside, printed at Boston by Richard and Samuel Draper.

Text in three columns.

Not in Ford, W.C.  Broadsides.

Bristol B2516.

Shipton & Mooney 41487.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41487)