An Execution In Hartford Two Hundred Years Ago
From the Diary of John Hull, Treasurer and Mint Master of Massachusetts, recently published by the American Antiquarian Society, we take the following item:
1657, 23 of 2d, [i. e. April 23d.] We received letters from Hartford, and understood that the work of reconciliation (in the Church) went very slowly forward. We also heard that a town called Farmington, near Hartford, an Indian was so bold as to kill an English woman great with child, and likewise her maid, and also sorely wounded a little girl- all within their house- and then set the house on fire, which also fired some other houses or barns. The Indians being apprehended, delivered u the murderer, who was brought to Hartford, and (after he had his right hand cut off) was, with an ax, knocked on the head by the executioner.
~ Bedford Inquirer, 11-Dec-1857, Page 3, Column 3
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