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The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of Capt. John Codman : who murdered their master at Charlestown, Mass., in 1755, for which the man was hanged and gibbeted, and the woman was burned to death : including, also, some account of other punishments by burning in Massachusetts /

The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of Capt. John Codman : who murdered their master at Charlestown, Mass., in 1755, for which the man was hanged and gibbeted, and the woman was burned to death : including, also, some account of other punishments by burning in Massachusetts /

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"The following pages are, with slight changes, a reprint from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society."--Prefatory note.
"200 copies printed."
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01/01/1883
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Goodell, Abner Cheney, 1831-1914.
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