Citation - New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy: 1765.08.22

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Index Entry Hymn, sung in Axbridge, by condemned before execution 
Location Axbridge 
Citation
NYGWPB.765.091
22 Aug 1765:134 (1181 Supplement)
[London] Wednesday last Mary Norwood, for poisoning her
husband at Axbridge, in the county of Somerset. was burnt at
Ivelchester, pursuant to her sentence . . . [more] She was
drawn on a sledge to the place of execution, where she
behaved with uncommon fortitude, the terrible apparatus
making no visible impression on her.  After joining in
prayer and singing a hymn she was strangled . . . 


Generic Title New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy 
Date 1765.08.22 
Publisher Holt, John 
City, State New York, NY 
Year 1765 
Bibliography B0026891
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