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Domestic News
April 2, 1788
The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
In New-York on March 14, a woman named her son Isaac and husband Abraham sacrificed the two-year-old boy in their bed-chamber due to religious fanaticism, believing it expiated her sins. Both parents were arrested and imprisoned, appearing sane otherwise.
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NEW-YORK, March 14.
A woman, whose son was named Isaac, and whose husband Abraham, conceived the preposterous idea, that for the expiation of her sins, there existed an indispensable obligation upon her to sacrifice her son. This sacrifice she accordingly performed in her bed-chamber upon her son, a boy of two years old, in the presence of her husband, whom she persuaded that she was performing a good and meritorious action.--They were both apprehended and imprisoned; but, excepting the circumstance of their religious fanaticism, they did neither of them appear at all disordered in their intellects.
A woman, whose son was named Isaac, and whose husband Abraham, conceived the preposterous idea, that for the expiation of her sins, there existed an indispensable obligation upon her to sacrifice her son. This sacrifice she accordingly performed in her bed-chamber upon her son, a boy of two years old, in the presence of her husband, whom she persuaded that she was performing a good and meritorious action.--They were both apprehended and imprisoned; but, excepting the circumstance of their religious fanaticism, they did neither of them appear at all disordered in their intellects.
What sub-type of article is it?
Crime
Death Or Funeral
What keywords are associated?
Religious Fanaticism
Child Sacrifice
Murder
Arrest
Imprisonment
What entities or persons were involved?
Isaac
Abraham
Where did it happen?
New York
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
New York
Event Date
March 14
Key Persons
Isaac
Abraham
Outcome
son sacrificed (killed at age two); parents apprehended and imprisoned.
Event Details
A woman and her husband Abraham, influenced by religious fanaticism, sacrificed their two-year-old son Isaac in their bed-chamber, believing it necessary for expiation of sins. The husband was persuaded it was meritorious.