Weekly Rehearsal
Series Run: 1731 – 1735
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Published in Boston.
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These transcriptions are sourced from America’s Historical Newspapers: Early American Newspapers. Series 1, From Colonies to Nation, provided by Readex: A Division of Newsbank
July 22nd 1734
“We have an Account from York, That an Indian Woman is lately committed to Prison there, for the Murder of her Master’s Daughter, a Girl about Eight Years old. ‘Tis said the barbarous Wretch threw the Child into the Well, and held it down with the Pole till it was drowned”[2].
Other Relevant Articles
- Reports from Paris, Rome, Parma, Konigsberg, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London, and Naples.
- Report of “a Resolution not to permit any of the Indian Traders to carry up any Goods to, or to trade with the Cherokee Indians” [2].
- Same event reported in the New-England Journal.
- Notification to “the Proprietors of the Township of Rutland” [2].
- Same event reported in the New-England Journal.
Weekly Rehearsal. Boston, Massachusetts, no. 147, 22 July 1734, pp. 2, Readex: America’s Historical Newspapers, America’s Historical Newspapers & Periodicals | Readex. Accessed 13 March 2025.
July 28th 1735
“That the Indian Woman condemned at the Assizes held at York in May last, for the Murder of a Child, was executed there on Thursday last” [2].
Weekly Rehearsal. Boston, Massachusetts, no. 200, 28 July 1735, pp. 2, Readex: America’s Historical Newspapers, America’s Historical Newspapers & Periodicals | Readex. Accessed 13 March 2025.