Book/Printed Material 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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Image 1 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … THE TRIAL AND EXECUTION, FOR PETIT TREASON, OF MARK AND PHILLIS, SLAVES OF CAPT. JOHN CODMAN. [200 copies printed.]- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 2 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 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…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 3 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … LC- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 4 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … THE TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF MARK AND PHILLIS, IN 1755. [The following pages are, with slight changes, a reprint from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, of a paper read before…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 5 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 4 4 have been considered by the framers of that instrument either as “cruel” or “unusual” in the sense in which they used these words. The particulars of the crime for which…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 6 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 5 seems to have thought was the efficient poison, though it appeared from the testimony that he was killed by the arsenic. The crime was promptly traced home to the conspirators; and…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 7 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 6 his negro man servant Mark Which he took and Languishd untill the first of July Current and then died and so the Jurors Aforesaid upon their oaths do Say, that Aforesaid…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 8 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 7 [ Mittimus against Robin. ] Suffolk ss: To The Keeper of His Majestys Goal in Boston and to the Constables of Boston Greeting— L. S. I herewith Comit to you M…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 9 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 8 cleaned the Skillet the Sagoe was boiled in and found some of the same stuff in the bottom of the skillet that was in the bottom of the Porringer. And presently…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 10 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 9 Quest. Who pour'd it into his barly Drink? Answ r . I did it myself; I pour'd a drop out of the Vial into the barly Drink, & I felt ugly,…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 11 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 10 Quest. What did you do with that Powder which Mark gave you? Answ r . I put it into the Vial, & set it in the Same Place it was in…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 12 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 11 him, I told him our Folks called me and I could not, Mark told me he was very Sorry I did not, and asked me if he gave me any Thing,…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 13 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 12 Quest. When was the first Time? Answ r . The next Monday morning after Phœbe gave me the first Powder. then it was put into his Chocalate, by Phœbe. The next…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 14 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 13 Quest. Do you know how your Master's Work house that was burnt down came on Fire? Answ r . Yes I do. Quest. How came it on fire? Answ r .…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 15 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 14 Quest. Are you a Servant or Freeman? Answ r . A Servant. M r . John Codman dec d : was my master. Quest. How long was you his Servant? Answ…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 16 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 15 Qu. Was any Body there when you gave it to her? An. No. Qu. What did she do with it? An. She took it & put it upon the Table. Qu.…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 17 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 16 Answ r . No other Reason than hearing Phœbe the Saturday night before master died ask Phillis, if she had given him enough, to which she replyed, yes. I have given…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 18 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 17 Quest. Did Robbin give you, or did you give Robbin any Thing between the Time of your coming out of M r . Harris's Entry and his going over the Ferry?…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 19 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 18 and so you mist each other and that he Robbin pretended to the Ferryman that he was a Country negro and wanted to see you about your Child, or Words to…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 20 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 19 Answ. No, I do not, nor ever heard any such Thing proposed by any Body. Quest. Do you know of any Cushoe nuts being procured for that Purpose? Answ r .…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 21 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 20 [ Bill of Indictment. ] Middlesex ss. At His Majesties Superiour Court of Judicature Court of Assize and General Goal Delivery held at Cambridge in and for the County of Middlesex…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 22 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 21 that the said Phillis did at Charlestown aforesaid of her malice forethought in manner and form aforesaid willfully feloniously and traiterously poison kill & murder the said John Codman her said…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 23 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 22 Province of the Massachusetts Bay, ss. George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France & Ireland King Defender of y e Faith & c . SEAL. To…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 24 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 23 To appear before our Justices of our Superiour Court of Judicature Court of Assize & General Goal Delivery now holden at Cambridge within and for said County Tomorrow morning at Eight…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 25 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 24 moved the Court that Judgment of Death might be given against them, whereupon they were asked by the chief Justice if they had ought to say why Judgment of Death should…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 26 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 25 willfully & traiterously in manner as aforesaid poison the watergruel aforesaid, with a felonious and traiterous intent and design that the said John her said master then being should then and…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 27 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 26 fail not; and make Return of this writ with your doings therein into the Clerks Office of our Said Court as soon as may be after you have Executed the Same…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 28 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 27 proceedings by which the ends of justice were reached in criminal cases. This is well illustrated by an incident that is recorded relative to the action of the judges of the…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 29 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 28 and in cases of persons of distinction, generally, remitted. Indeed, even the hanging was dispensed with in these latter cases; and hence we read of the execution of great prisoners of…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 30 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 29 to the sheriff. After execution, the body of the felon was taken from the gallows and hung upon a gibbet conveniently near the place where the fact was committed, there to…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 31 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 30 authority to grant a pardon for murder,* it is not likely that any favor was shown to her in accordance with a promise from either, nor is there any evidence that…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 32 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 31 who was executed at Roxbury in 1681. Perhaps it will be well to give the story of this case as it appears on the records of the Court of Assistants.* *…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 33 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 32 were satisfied of the legality of their sentence is to me inexplicable, except upon the possible claim that they might rightfully exercise the expansive discretion which they applied to the case…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 34 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 33 till his master send him out of the country & then dischardg y e charges of Imprisonment wch if he refuse to doe aboue one moneth the country Tresurer is to…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 35 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 34 “And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 36 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 35 thing to the brief allusion already made to the comparative mildness of the laws of Massachusetts in respect to capital punishment. The execution of Mark and Phillis took place just about…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 37 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 36 present they are very ill-timed. Whilst the people of this country lived from hand to mouth, and had very little wealth but what was confined among themselves, a simple system of…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 38 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 37 condition by swinging on the newly contrived gallows, on which ten criminals could be hanged together.* * See a picture of the new gallows, in the illustrated “Newgate Calendar.” Alas! well…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 39 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 38 In point of fact such executions occurred in England long after the burning of Phillis. A memorable case is that of Anne Beddingfield, who was burned for petit treason at Rushmore,…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883
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Image 40 of The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of … 39 here, even high treason is punishable simply by imprisonment, in England, strong efforts have been repeatedly made, and recently with a fair prospect of ultimate success, to induce parliament to imitate…- Contributor: Goodell, Abner Cheney
- Date: 1883