 | Bostonian Society - 1919 - 174 síður
...not fail to be heeded by the evil disposed coming to town. In 1656 it was ordered that the gallows be removed to the next knoll of land, before the next execution. This would locate it just back of the former Conservatory of Music, shown by the tombs in the burial... | |
 | 1888 - 704 síður
...hanged from the tree. On the thirty-first of March, of 1656, it was ordered that the gallows should be removed to the next knoll of land before the next execution. Poor Ann Hibbens was hanged in June of that year. From that The custom was not very unlike what it... | |
 | Bostonian Society - 1912 - 640 síður
...Midlothian," writes : — " The fatal day was announced by the appearance of a huge, black gallowstree." Tree is used as an equivalent of gallows or a cross,...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... | |
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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... 