20

Tread-mill 71 to 76

UPON the gallows with rope about the neck (of frequent mention).

WHIPPED at the cart's tail 1, 9

Whipping-post (of frequent mention).

SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS.

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In the month of January, 1761, "Joseph Bennett, John Jenkins, Owen
McCarty, and John Wright were publickly whipt at the Cart's Tail thro'
the City of New York for petty Larceny,"--so the newspaper account
states,--"pursuant to Sentence inflicted on them by the Court of
Quarter Sessions held last Week for the Trial of Robbers," etc. In
March the same year "One Andrew Cayto received 49 Stripes at the
public Whipping Post" in Boston "for House-robbing; viz., 39 for
robbing one House, and 10 for robbing another." In 1762 "Jeremiah
Dexter, of Walpole, pursuant to Sentence, stood in the Pillory in that
Town the space of one Hour for uttering two Counterfeit Mill'd
Dollars, knowing them to be such." At Ipswich, Mass., June 16, 1763,
"one Francis Brown, for stealing a large quantity of Goods, was found
Guilty, and it being the second Conviction, he was sentenced by the
Court to sit on the Gallows an Hour with a Rope about his Neck, to be
whipt 30 Stripes, and pay treble Damages. He says he was born in
Lisbon, and has been a great Thief."

We extract the following from the "Boston Chronicle," Nov. 20, 1769:--

We hear from Worcester that on the eighth instant one Lindsay
stood in the Pillory there one hour, after which he received 30
stripes at the public whipping post, and was then branded in the
hand; his crime was forgery.

Lindsay was probably branded with the letter F, by means of a hot
iron, on the palm of his right hand; this was the custom in such
cases.

In Boston, in June, 1762, "the noted Dr. Seth Hudson and Joshua How
stood a second Time in the Pillory for the space of one Hour, and the
former received 20 and the latter 39 Stripes." In the same town in
February, 1764, "one David Powers for Stealing was sentenced to be
whip't 20 Stripes, to pay tripel Damages, being L30, and Costs. And
one John Gray, Cordwainer, for endeavouring to spread the Infection of
the Small Pox, was sentenced to pay a Fine of L6, to suffer three
months' Imprisonment, and to pay Costs." In New York in January, 1767,
"A Negro Wench was executed for stealing sundry Articles out of the
House of Mr. Forbes; and one John Douglass