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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Regicides, the (search)
citizens generally did what they could to protect them. Learning that their pursuers were near, they hid in caves, in clefts of rocks, in mills, and other obscure places, where their friends supplied their wants. There is still to be seen in New Haven the cave, known as the Judges' Cave, wherein they took refuge from the King's officers. Finally, in 1664, they went to Hadley, Mass., where they remained, in absolute seclusion, in the house of Rev. Mr. Russell, for about fifteen years. Dixwell was with Whalley and Goffe most of the time until they died—the former in 1678, and the latter in 1679—and were buried at New Haven. Dixwell lived at New Haven under the assumed name of James Davids. He was twice married, leaving three children. He died in New Haven, March 18, 1689, in the eighty-second year of his age. In the burying-ground in the rear of the Central Church small stones, with brief inscriptions, mark the graves of the three regicides. See Goffe, William; Whalley, Edw
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Colonial history. (search)
married, and lived peacefully and happily. The History of the World, which Raleigh had written in imprisonment, with the sentence of death hanging over his head, was the favorite study of the man whom the laws of England had condemned to the gallows; and he ever retained a firm belief that the spirit of English liberty would demand a new revolution, which was achieved in England a few months before his end, and of which the earliest rumors may have reached his death-bed. Dixwell died March 18, 1689, aged 81. Three of the regicides, who had escaped to Holland, found themselves, in the territory of a free and independent state, The story in Pepys, II. 149, 150, 4to. ed., is very unfavorable to De Witt. less securely sheltered than their colleagues in the secret places of a dependent colony. They were apprehended in Holland, surrendered by 1662 April 19. the states, and executed in England. Retributive justice, thought many, required the execution of regicides. One victi