THE GREAT SIN AND DANGER OF STRIVING WITH GOD. A SERMON PREACHED AT WETHERSFIELD, DECEMBER 13TH, 1782. AT THE FUNERAL OR MRS. LYDIA BEADLE, WIFE OF THE LATE WILLIAM BEADLE, AND THEIR FOUR CHILDREN, WHO WERE ALL MURDERED BY HIS OWN HANDS ON THE MORNING OF THE 11TH INSTANT. . . TO WHICH IS ANNEXED A LETTER, FROM A GENTLEMAN IN WETHERSFIELD TO HIS FRIEND, CONTAINING A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM BEADLE, (SO FAR AS IT IS KNOWN) AND THE PARTICULARS OF THE MASSACRE OF HIMSELF AND FAMILY.
Middleborough, (County of Plymouth): Printed and Sold by N. Coverly, 1788. 38, [1- publ. advt], [1 blank] pp. Stitched. Lightly foxed and toned. Very Good. Contemporary ownership signatures of Stephen W. Clark and [more elaborately and frequently] Philip Curtis. Beadle, of Wethersfield, "killed his wife and four children, and then..... More