Crime -- Massachusetts

By His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; ... A proclamation: His majesty's royal commission ... that all officers civil and military, within the said province, be and hereby are continued in their respective offices ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the fourteenth day of August 1741. ...

Massachusetts. Governor (1741-1757 : Shirley), William Shirley

By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation: Whereas divers persons have received beating orders for the raising the recruits for his majesty's garrison at Louisbourg ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the eleventh day of October 1745. ...

Massachusetts. Lieutenant Governor (1732-1757 : Phips), Spencer Phips

By His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; ... A proclamation.: His majesty's royal commission ... that all officers civil and military, within the said province, be and hereby are continued in their respective offices ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the fourteenth day of August 1741. ..

Massachusetts. Governor (1741-1757 : Shirley)

Two sermons: the first from Psalm CII. 19, 20, delivered the Lord's-Day before the execution of Levi Ames, who was executed at Boston, Thursday October 21, for burglary, aet. 22 : this discourse was preached at the desire of the criminal, who also attended on the occasion : the second from Proverbs XVII. 25, preached the Lords-Day after his execution and designed as an improvement of that awful event by way of caution to others : to which is added, at the request of many, an account of the exercise of his mind, from the time of his condemnation, till he left the world, together with the conversation the author had with him as he walked with him from the prison to the gallows ...

by Samuel Stillman ...

The cry of Sodom enquired into: upon occasion of the arraignment and condemnation of Benjamin Goad, for his prodigious villany. : Together with a solemn exhortation to tremble at Gods judgements, and to abandon youthful lusts

By S.D. ; [Ten lines of Scripture texts]

Warnings to the unclean: in a discourse from Rev. XXI. 8. Preacht at Springfield lecture, August 25th. 1698. At the execution of Sarah Smith.

By Mr. John Williams, Pastor of the church at Deerfield.

The horrid nature and enormous guilt of murder: a sermon preached at the Thursday-lecture in Boston, Novemeber 19th, 1754, the day of the execution of William Wieer for the murder of William Chism

by Charles Chauncy ...

500 criminal careers

by Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor T. Glueck.

The greatness of sin improv'd by the penitent as an argument with God for a pardon: A sermon at the Thursday lecture in Boston, October 17th. 1734. Preach'd in the hearing of John Ormesby, and Matthew Cushing, two condemned malefactors on the day of their execution, the one for murder, and the other for burglary

By John Webb, A.M. Pastor of a church in Boston. ; With an appendix, giving a faithful account of the behaviour of Matthew Cushing, after his condemnation, and at the time of his execution. By the Reverend Mr. Cooper

The paradise of God opened to a penitent thief, in answer to his dying prayer to a dying Saviour: considered and improved in a sermon; the substance of which was delivered at Taunton, November 11, 1784. Upon the day of the execution of John Dixson, for burglary, aetat 24. : With an appendix, on the nature and enormity of burglary. : And a sketch of Dixson's life

By Peres Fobes, A.M. A.A.S. Pastor of the church in Raynham. ; [Four lines of Scripture texts]