The New Hampshire Gazette

Yesterday morning, at half an hour past eleven, William Sparry, William Biddle, and James Farr, were executed at Tyburn, pursuant to their sentence, for forging a will in the name of Jeffery Henville, with an intent to defraud one Mrs. Freke.

Sparry was an attorney, a few minutes before he was turned off, addressed himself to the people and told them, That as a dying man he thought it incumbent on him to declare, that he thought his sentence to be just, but at the same time he observed, that his adversaries had gone great lengths to bring him to his fatal end. He said, that he was never married to his servant maid, as has been given out. He farther observed, that there were two indictments he had been concerned in, one at Hicks's Hall, the other in the Crown, both of which were false; wherein much perjury had been carried on; and then desiring prayers of the spectators, quietly resigned himself to his fate.

Biddle spoke nothing, but employed himself wholly in his devotions.

Farr fixed the knot of the rope under his left ear, and said, I have but a few moments to stay in this world, but I have found it a wicked world, a very wicked world indeed: and the moment after he was turned off, pulled up his cap, which immediately was pulled down again.