Vulgar words in 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 (Page 1)
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and at the same time that he gave it to me he told me that Robbin said we were damn'd Fools we had not given Master that first Powder at two Doses, for it wou'd have killed him, and no Body would have known who hurt him, for it was enough to kill the strongest man living; upon which I ask'd Mark how he knew, it would not have been found out, he said that Mr. Salmon's Negros poison'd him, and were never found out, but had got good masters, & so might we.
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211; but neither the statutes referred to, nor the case cited from 12 Ass.
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The report runs thus: "Alice _de W, qui fuit de l'age de xiij ans, fuit arse per judgment, pur ceo que el'avoit tue sa Maistres, & pur tant ceo fuit adjudge treason, &c._;" and it appears that the case turned upon the question of accountability, by reason of the tender age of the culprit.