Brookfield (Town)

A Christian people's remembrance of their deceased pastor: a sermon delivered February 12, 1818, at the funeral of the Reverend Ephraim Ward, Senior Pastor of the First Church and Society in Brookfield; who deceased Feb. 9, 1818, in the 77th year of his age; and 47th of his ministry

by Micah Stone, Minister of the Second Society in that town

Murdered by his wife: a history with documentation of the Joshua Spooner murder and execution of his wife, Bathsheba, who was hanged in Worcester, Massachusetts, 2 July 1778

Deborah Navas

An oration, pronounced at Brookfield, (Mass.) upon the anniversary of American independence, on the Fourth of July, 1807: before a numerous assembly of the Republicans of the county of Worcester

by Levi Lincoln

A sermon preached at the ordination of the Reverend Mr. Ephraim Ward, to the pastoral care of the First Church in Brookfield. October 23d. 1771

By Jason Haven, A.M. pastor of the First Church in Dedham

The Rev. Mr. Maccarthy's [sic] account of the behaviour of Mrs. Spooner after her commitment and condemnation for being accessory in the murder of her husband at Brookfield, March 1. 1778

Thaddeus Maccarty

The dying declaration of James Buchanan, Ezra Ross and William Brooks: who were executed at Worcester, on Thursday July the 2d, 1778, for the murder of Mr. Jashua [i.e., Joshua] Spooner

James Buchanan, Ezra Ross, William Brooks

The character, trials, and security of the Church: A sermon preached at the dedication of the meeting-house of the Evangelical Society in South Brookfield, August 13, 1828

By Micah Stone, Pastor of the church. ; Published by request

A Mournful poem: occasioned by sentence of death being pass'd upon William Brooks, James Buhannon [i.e., Buchanan], Ezra Ross and Bathsheba Spooner, who were tried and found guilty of murdering Mr. Joshua Spooner, of Brookfield, and who were all executed at Worcester on Thursday the 2d day of July 1778

The last words and dying speech of James Buchanan, Ezra Ross, and William Brooks: who were executed at Worcester, for the murder of Mr. Joshua Spooner

James Buchanan, Ezra Ross

A sermon preached at Brookfield March 6, 1778: On the day of the interment of Mr. Joshua Spooner, who was most barbarously murdered at his own gate, on the Lord's day evening preceeding, by three ruffians, who were hired for the purpose by his wife

--By Nathan Fiske, A.M. Pastor of the Third Church in Brookfield. ; [Five lines from Genesis]