Alice Bishop, MA, 1648

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"The first and only female to be hanged in Plymouth Golo- |
ny (Mass.) was Alice Bishope, for the mrder of Martha
Clarke,’'...her owne child, the fruit of her own body,!
dn LONG, vel HANG Bi TEy NECK, by Teeters, page 120,

", eAllice Bishope cut the throat of her )-year-old daugh-
ter, Martha Clarke....'! WOMEN WHO KILL, by Ann Jones; New
York; Rinehart, Holt & Winston, 1980, page 29, Her source
RutCORDS OF THi COLONY OF NEW PLYMOULH IN NiiW ENGLAND, Na-
thaniel B, Shurtleff, ed, (Boston: White, 1855), Vol, II,
page 13h.

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BISHOP, Alice

"The first and only female to be hanged in Plymouth Colo- |
ny (Mass.) was Alice Bishope, for the mrder of Martha |
Clarke,’ '.,..her owne child, the fruit of her own body,'

in 1648..." HANG BY I'HE NECK, by Teeters, page 120.

",,eAllice Bishope cut the throat of her year-old daugh
ter, Martha Clarke....'! WOMEN WHO KILL, by Ann Jones; New

York: Rinehart, Holt & Winston, 1980, page 29, Her sourc¢
RECORDS OF THii COLONY OF NEW PLYMOULH IN NEW ENGLAND, Na-

thaniel B, Shurtleff, ed. (Boston: White, 1855), Vol. II,

page 13h.

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ny (Mass.) was Alice Bishope, for the mrder of Martha
her owne child, the fruit of her own body,!

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