Joseph Andrews, NY, 1769 May 23

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Broadside: "The Last Dying Speech of Joseph Andrews, who

was executed at New York on Tuesday the 23rd day of May,
1769, for Piracy and Murder,” Library Company of Phila-
delphia.

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Broadside: "The Last Dying Speech of Joseph Andrews, who
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1769, for Piracy and Murder.” Library Company of Phila-

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ANDREWS, Joseph 5/23/1789
Hanged, May 23, 1769 ".,0n the shore between the air fur~
nace and the town, and his body afterwards hung in chains
on bedlow's Island", New York City for piracy & murder,
'the schooner, POLLY sailed from New York in August, 1766,
for the West Indies. ',..the Night before the expected to
get to St. Christophers, about Midnight, William Harris %
being at Helm, and the Captain asleep on a Hencoop on Deck
Johnson with one Blow of an Ax killed him, and he expired
without a Groan or Struggle. They then in like manner he-
tween them Murdered the three Passengers, and Mate With an
AX, and threw the Boy overboard alive.' Only one of the
crew, Harris, survived and escaped to St. Kitts, where An-
drews was seized and sent back to New York to be tried—and
~Sxecuted. Johnson was also caught in the West Indies and

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| ANDREWS, Joseph 5/23/1769
Hanged, May 23, 1769 ".,0n the shore between the air fur~
nace and the town, and his body afterwards hung in chains
on Sedlow's Island", New York City for piracy & murder,
"The schooner, POLLY sailed from New York in August, 1766,
for the West Indies. '...the Night before the expected to
get to St. Christophers, about Midnight, William Harris x
being at Helm, and the Captain asleep on a Hencoop on Deck
Johnson with one Blow of an Ax killed him, and he expired
without a Groan or Strugglee They then in like manner he-
twean them Murdered the three Passengers, and Mate witch an
AX, and threw the Boy overboard alive,! Only one of the
crew, Harris, survived and escaped to St. Kitts, where An-
drews was seized and sent back to New York to be tried—and
executed. Johnson was also caught in the West Indies and

8/23/1769

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lurdered the thred Passengers, and Mate wijth an
Ax, and threw the Boy overboard alive!’ Only one of th
mis, survived and escaped to St, Kitts, where
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