The declaration & confession of Matthew Cushing
- Ballad Title
- The declaration & confession of Matthew Cushing
- Ballad Location
- Pamphlet location: AAS Record Number: 0F2F81D79AFEFAF0, Record Number: w015181 Recorded in Early American Imprints, Series 1, no. 40042 (filmed), and Early American Imprints, Series 1, no. 40044 (filmed).
- Event Date
- 1734
- Event Location
- Boston Neck
- Printing Location
- [Boston] Printed and sold [by Samuel Kneeland and Timothy Green] at the printing house in Queen-Street, over against the prison., 1734]
- Crime
- burglary
- Gender of Accused
- Male
- Method of Punishment
- hanging
- Category
- Crime and Punishment Ballads
- Sub-Category
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Execution Ballads
- Notes
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Signed: Boston, Octob. 17. 1734. Matthew Cushing.
Followed by verse in sixteen stanzas entitled A few lines upon the awful execution of John Ormesby [i.e., Ormsby] & Matth. Cushing, October 17th. 1734. One for murder, the other for burglary.
Samuel Kneeland and Timothy Green were at this address in Boston in 1734.
First two columns, on left half of sheet, contain Cushing's declaration. Third and fourth columns, on right half of sheet, contain the poem with woodcut of a hanging (Reilly 1175) at right of title. Imprint appears below third and fourth columns.
Declaration and poem recorded independently by Bristol and Ford; possibly intended to be separated.
