Confession of Peter Mathias, alias Matthews (1808 edition) (Q859)

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narrative by Pater Mathias, published in 1808
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Confession of Peter Mathias, alias Matthews (1808 edition)
narrative by Pater Mathias, published in 1808

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    CONFESSION | OF | PETER MATTHIAS, alias MATTHEWS, | WHO WAS EXECUTED | ON MONDAY, THE 14th OF MARCH, 1808. | FOR THE | MURDER | OF | MRS. SARAH CROSS; | WITH AN | ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC, | AND | P E O P L E O F C O L O U R. | TOGETHER WITH THE SUBSTANCE OF THE TRIAL, AND THE ADDRESS | OF CHIEF JUSTICE TILGHMAN, ON HIS CONDEMNATION.
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    PHILADELPHIA: | PRINTED AT No. 12, WALNUT-STREET, | FOR THE BENEFIT OF BETHEL CHURCH. | 1808.
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    Confession of Peter Mathias, alias Matthews, Who Was Executed on Monday, the 14th of March, 1808 for the Murder of Mrs. Sarah Cross
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    34 pages.
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    [1] District of Pennsylvania, to wit: | BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the tenth day of March, in the | thirty-second year of the Independence of the United States of American, A D. 1808, RICHARD ALLEN of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:--”Confession of Peter
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    [2] Mathias, alias Matthews, who was executed on Monday, the 14th of March, | 1808, for the Murder of Mrs. Sarah Cross, with an address to the pub- | lic and people of colour, together with the substance of the trial, and | the address of Chief Justice Tilghman, on his condemnation.” In con- | formity to the Act of Congress of the United States intitled, “An
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    [3] Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, | charts, and books, to the authors and propietors of such copies during | the times therein mentions,” and also to the Act, entitled “An Act | suplementary to an Act, entitled, “An Act for the encouragement of | learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the
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    authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mention- | ed,” and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engrav- | ing, and etching, historical and other prints.” | D. CALDWELL, | Clerk of the District of | Pennsylvania.
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