Where Were the Quakers Handged in Boston?: A Paper Read Before the Bostonian Society, May 17, 19101911 - 15 síður |
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Síða 11 - When the Scaffold was let to sink, there was such a Screech of the Women that my wife heard it sitting in our Entry next the Orchard, and was much surprised at it; yet the wind was sou-west. Our house is a full mile from the place Feria seplima, Apr.
Síða 5 - And the Captain said, Why had you not come to the Prison ? The Reason was, Because I heard, the Man might go if he would ; and therefore I called him down from the Tree and said, Come down, William, you may go away if you will.
Síða 7 - But before I leave off this subject, I must bring Morgan to his Execution, whither I rid with Mr. Cotton Mather, after the Sermon was ended. Some thousands of the People following to see the Execution. As I rid along I had several glimpses of poor Morgan, as he went.
Síða 7 - Dumer ; was kindly entertained at Mr. Stoughton's after Lecture. Going thither I saw a few Feet of Ground enclosed with Boards, which is done by the Quakers out of respect to som one or more hanged and buried by the Gallows : though the Governour forbad them, when they asked Leave.
Síða 3 - ... fear, it is said, that a rescue might be attempted, — Mary and her fellow sufferers bid each other a last farewell. Robinson first ascended the fatal ladder. While uttering his dying words, predicting a visitation of divine wrath to come upon his slayers, a harsh voice in the crowd cried out : " Hold thy tongue ! Thou art going to die with a lie in thy mouth ! " Stevenson's last words were these : " Be it known unto all, this day, that we suffer not as evil-doers, but for conscience
Síða 8 - ... whither I rid with Mr. Cotton Mather, after the Sermon was ended. Some thoufands of the People following to fee the Execution. As I rid along I had feveral glimpfes of poor Morgan, as he went. He feem'd penitent to the laft : Mr. Cotton Mather pray'd with him at the place of Execution, and conferred with him about his Soul all the way thither, which was about a mile out of Bofton. After being ty'd up...
Síða 3 - Robinson was broken, his body being stiff ere it was cut down; and, when down, their shirts were ripped off with a knife, and their naked bodies cast into a hole that was digged in the earth, without any covering. And when some Friends came, and desired that their bodies be put into coffins, and so into some enclosed ground, where beasts might not turn them up, your executioner suffered them to wrap them in linen, and to put them in again. But he suffered them not to take them away...
Síða 7 - ... away his life. He was bid not to go into the boat because of the danger, but he derided saying He y' was born to be hanged, will never be drowned, & he was not drowned, though in such guilt. It is to be feared y' at last hanging may be his Portion. . . . This week somebody in the night time erected a Pillar over the Quakers Graves (who were hanged) under the gallows & wrote " Here lie the bodies of such & such, their souls triumphing in [blank] their blood crying for Vengeance.
Síða 7 - Court ordered that the gallows should be taken down and forthwith set up again in some convenient place "on the Common." In 1656 the Selectmen ordered " that the gallows shall be removed to the next knoll of land before the next execution." Ann Hibbens was hanged on it soon after its removal, and fifty years later 44 A PORTION OF BOSTON NECK From Bonner's Map of Boston, 1722. A PORTION OF BOSTON NECK it was still on " Gallows-hill," the knoll on which it had been placed.
Síða 3 - And when W. Robinson went cheerfully up the ladder, to the topmost round above the gallows, and spoke to the people, "That they suffered not as evildoers, but as those who testified and manifested the Truth; and that this was the day of their visitation, and he therefore desired them to mind the Light that was in them, the Light of Christ, of which he testified, and was now going to seal it with his blood...