them were escorted, with halters round their
necks, to the gallows, on which they sat one hour. They are again
committed for costs, &c.

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"Massachusetts Gazette," 1786.

Johnson Green was executed, on Thursday last, at Worcester, for
burglary. A greater thief and burglar was perhaps never hanged in
this country.

From "Massachusetts Centinel," Oct. 6, 1786.

BACKS "DRESS'D."

HARTFORD, October 2.

On Wednesday last, David Stillman, John Hawley and Thomas Gibbs
were committed to jail in this city, for counterfeiting and
passing publick securities; and on Thursday last, Jonathan
Densmore, of East-Hartford, was committed for stealing a horse.
Stillman and Hawley belong to the county of Hampshire, state of
Massachusetts. They are now in a fair way to have their
grievances (and backs) dress'd and re-dress'd.

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From "Massachusetts Gazette," May 15, 1786.

NEW-YORK, May 6.

_Extract of a letter from Washington_ (North-Carolina), _March_
27.

"On Thursday last made his appearance in this town, a certain
John Hamlen, who, in the late war, left the state of Maryland,
and joined the enemies of America. After joining them, he
fitted out a galley, and cruised in the Delaware and Chesapeak,
where he was very successful in capturing a number of American
vessels. He was very fond of exercising every species of
cruelty on those unhappy people who fell into his hands; among
other things, he took great delight in cutting off the ears of
some, and noses of others. Unluckily for him he was known by
some honest Jack Tars, belonging to vessels in this harbour,
who, in the time of the war, had been made prisoners by him;
these honest fellows very kindly furnished him with a coat of
_Tar_ and _Feathers_; and that he might not in a short time
forget them, they took off one of his _ears_; they then kindly
shewed him the way out of town, without doing him any further
injury.--It is supposed he will bend his course for Newbern,
and endeavour to take a passage in some vessel bound to the
northern states."

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FROM THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE.

_A GEORGIA SHREW._

"Why, sirs, I trust I may have leave to speak,
And speak I will; I am no child, n