Baldwin, Moses:

THE UNGODLY CONDEMNED IN JUDGMENT. A SERMON PREACHED AT SPRINGFIELD, DECEMBER 13TH 1770. ON OCCASION OF THE EXECUTION OF WILLIAM SHAW, FOR MURDER. BY MOSES BALDWIN, A.M. PASTOR OF THE CHURCH IN PALMER. THE SECOND EDITION.

Boston: Printed and Sold by Kneeland and Adams, next to the Treasurer's Office in Milk-Street, 1771. 24pp, but lacking the half title. Death's Head ornamentation on title page. Disbound and uniformly toned. Closed tear to title leaf [no loss] repaired; evidence of repair at outer margin]. Inner margin of title page and page 24 with old wrapper remnants. Good+.

Shaw bludgeoned Edward East to death while both were inmates of the Springfield prison. This is the second of three editions of this title, all issuing in 1771; AAS does not own our edition. Reverend Baldwin scolds Mr. Shaw "for the sin of intemperance. Have you not hereby dishonoured God, and abused his bounty and goodness; wronged your own soul and body; wasted your substance; brought your self and family to poverty and distress?. . . You are verily guilty of the crying sin of MURDER."
Evans 11974. ESTC W1508.[5- Yale, NYHS, Boston Public, Williams, Peabody-Essex]. Item #39601

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