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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Kingston, Jamaica, on July 27, pirate and murderer William alias Benjamin Johnson was tried before Hon. Samuel Whitthorn, found guilty, and sentenced to death by hanging with his body to be hung in chains; he showed no remorse until condemnation.
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July 27.
On Monday last was tried at the court in this
town, before the Hon. Samuel Whitthorn, Esq. Presi-
dent, and his associates, under a special commission of
oyer and terminer, William alias Benjamin Johnson,
the pirate and murderer; whose case, of immea-
surable wickedness, the public are already sufficiently ap-
prised of. It therefore only remains for us to say,
that he was found guilty upon the clearest evidence
and sentenced to suffer death upon the gallows,
where his body is to be hung in chains.
On his trial he conducted himself with such insensibility and hardness as
betrayed every principle of remorse and contrition
until the moment of his condemnation, when all his
fortitude seemed to forsake him, and he was taken
from the bar in a state of horror and desperation.
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Kingston, In Jamaica
Event Date
July 27
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found guilty upon the clearest evidence and sentenced to suffer death upon the gallows, where his body is to be hung in chains
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On Monday last was tried at the court in this town, before the Hon. Samuel Whitthorn, Esq. President, and his associates, under a special commission of oyer and terminer, William alias Benjamin Johnson, the pirate and murderer; whose case, of immeasurable wickedness, the public are already sufficiently apprised of. It therefore only remains for us to say, that he was found guilty upon the clearest evidence and sentenced to suffer death upon the gallows, where his body is to be hung in chains. On his trial he conducted himself with such insensibility and hardness as betrayed every principle of remorse and contrition until the moment of his condemnation, when all his fortitude seemed to forsake him, and he was taken from the bar in a state of horror and desperation.