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The life and adventures of Joseph Mountain, a Negro highwayman. Who practised robbing in England, France, Spain and Holland, about ten years, without detection, and was finally executed at Newhaven, in Connecticut, on the 20th of October, 1790, for committing a rape on the body of a respectable young girl of that town
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The life and adventures of Joseph Mountain, a Negro highwayman. [microform] : Who practised robbing in England, France, Spain and Holland, about ten years, without detection, and was finally executed at Newhaven, in Connecticut, on the 20th of October, 1790, for committing a rape on the body of a respectable young girl of that town. / Taken from his own mouth, in presence of reliable witnesses. ; [Eight lines of verse]
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Bennington, (Vermont) : Printed by Anthony Haswell,, M,DCC,XCI. [1791]
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28 p. ; 19 cm.
Notes
First-person narrative, prepared by David Daggett (cf. Dexter's Yale graduates) and signed by Mountain. "The writer of the following narrative assures the public, that the facts related were taken from the mouth of the culprit."--note, p. [2], signed: Joseph Peck. John Punderson. Newhaven, October 1790.
Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 46146).
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Books / Microforms
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English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Bristol, R.P. Supplement to Charles Evans' American bibliography, B7675
Shipton, C.K. National index of American imprints through 1800, 46146
McCorison, M.A. Vermont, 198
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