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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 14: civil History. (search)
tone and Susanna Jarvis, etc. It was entered from North Avenue through a bridleway or passage, between Lancaster Place and Arlington Street, now called Stone Court. The names and the number of the wretched convicts who suffered the extreme penalty of the law at this Place of execution, are unknown to me. One horrible example, however, was recorded by Professor Winthrop, in his interleaved Almanac, under date of Sept. 18, 1755: A terrible spectacle in Cambridge: two negroes belonging to Capt. Codman of Charlestown, executed for petit treason, for murdering their said master by poison. They were drawn upon a sled to the place of execution; and Mark, a fellow about 30, was hanged; and Phillis, an old creature, was burnt to death. The Boston Evening Post, of Sept. 22, states more particularly, that the fellow was hanged, and the woman burned at a stake about ten yards distant from the gallows. They both confessed themselves guilty of the crime for which they suffered, acknowledged th
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Index of names (search)
Channing, 314. Chaplin, 35-7. Chapman, 331. Charles I., 63, 74. Charles II., 67, 96. Chase, 310, 28. Chauncy, 49, 68, 75, 262, 4-7, 9, 75, 82, 352. Cheeshahteaumuck, 366, 88, Cheever, 58, 75, 185, 216,62. Cheney, 75. Chesholme, 15, 59, 75, 223, 58, 69, 71, 305. Chester. 32. Child, 86, 215, 26, 31, 431. Christison, 347. Clark, 32, 8, 59, 77,180, 208, 54, 78, 9, 305, 22, 30. Clements, 58. Cobb, 435. Cobbett, 35, 69. Coddillgton, 6, 8, 27. Codman, 217. Coffin, 150. Cogswell, 329. Coit, 309. Colby, 20, 32. Collar, 76. Collecott, 385. Collins, 35, 56, 117, 250, 305. Collyer, 321, 30. Colman, 135, 369. Conant, 419. Cooke, 34-40, 2, 3, 56, 9, 75-8, 81, 110, 11, 18, 76, 82, 222, 39, 50, 90, 4, 314, 31, 84, 97, 8, 418. Coolidge, 133, 85, 305, 14, 17, 32, 69. Cooper, 35, 59, 75, 92,4, 105, 43, 63, 98, 269, 78, 9, 305, 412. Corbett, 53. Corlett, 58, 75, 366-8, 73. Corwin, 115. Cotton, 29-31,