Citation - American Weekly Mercury: 1735.02.11

AWM.735.014
4-11 Feb 1735:12, 21 (789)
From the Boston Gazette . . . [report of trial of Sam Poll
for murder.  Same report then presented in verse:]
York, ff. At a Court of General Sessions, &c.
  The jurors of our Lord the King, 
  On oath present, and here they bring
  Into this honourable court, 
  This lamentable sad report:
  That one Sam. Poll of Biddiford
  A vain and graceless wretch (good Lord)
  Of whom 'twas also further said, 
  He was a mill-wright by his trade:
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