be given against them, whereupon
they were asked by the chief Justice if they had ought to say why
Judgment of Death should not be given against them, and having nothing
material to offer Judgment of Death was pronounced against them by the
chief Justice in the name of the Court in form following that is to
Say that the said Phillis go from hence to the place where she came
from, and from thence to the place of Execution & there be burnt to
Death, and that the said Mark go from hence to the place where he came
from, and from thence be drawn to the place of Execution and there be
hanged by the neck until he be dead and God Almighty have mercy upon
their Souls. Ordered that these Sentences be put into Execution upon
thursday the eighth[5] day of September next between the hours of one
and five of the Clock in the Afternoon.

[Footnote 5: An error. It should have been "eighteenth."]

Warrant issued Sep. 6. 1755.

[_Writ of execution, or death-warrant._]

PROVINCE OF THE } _George the second by the Grace of God of
MASSACHUSETTS BAY } Great Britain France and Ireland King
MIDDLESEX ss. } Defender of the Faith &Ca_

SEAL. To Richard Foster Esqr. Sheriff of our County of Middlesex
in Said Province

Greeting

Whereas at our Superiour Court of Judicature Court of Assize and
General Goal Delivery begun and held at Cambridge within and for the
County of Middlesex on the first Tuesday of August last the Grand
Jurors for us for the Body of our said County of Middlesex did on
their Oath Present That Phillis a Negro woman of Charlestown in the
County of Middlesex Spinster Servant of John Codman late of
Charlestown aforesaid Gentleman, not having the fear of God before her
Eyes, but of her malice forethought contriving to deprive the Said
John Codman her Said master of his life and him feloniously and
Traiterously to kill and murder, she the said Phillis on the
thirteenth day of June last at Charlestown aforesaid in the dwelling
house of the said John there did of her malice forethought willfully
felloniously and Traiterously put a Deadly Poison called Arsenick into
a Vial of Water and thereby did then and there Poison the same
water--and That the said Phillis knowing the water aforesaid to be so
poisoned did then and there feloniously willfully traiterously and of
her malice forethought put one spoonfull of the same water so poisoned
into a pint of the said John's watergruel and thereby poison the same
wate