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EG.771.045
3-10 Sep 1771:271 (4/163)
From the North-Carolina Gazette, of August 2, 1771.
The last speech, confession, and dying words of Isaiah
Thomas, Printer of the Massachusetts Spy, (No. 17) in
Boston, and his two co-partners in iniquity, Leonidas and
Mucius Scaevola, who were executed at Newbern, on Wednesday,
the 13th of July, 1771, for the heinous crime of slander.
[N.B. : This report may be satirical, executing the named
printers in effigy.]
. . . [33 lines follow]
Epitaph.
Beneath this gallows three traducers lie,
Who for their crimes were justly doomed to die,
Leonidas, with Mucius of ill fame,
And we the third, Isaiah Thomas, name.
Sworn foes to honour, virtue, truth they fell
And where they now reside we cannot tell.
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