| Show PECULIAR punishments A fragee at boston in had a leis ter tf branded upon tbt palm of his hand THE letter S was burned upon a man at boston for stealing a kettle a woman of salem mass was bound and chained to a post for beating her husband ifon passing counterfeit money at springfield mass in a criminal ears cropped A of mass was in 1702 obliged to stand in the pil two hours FOR isenbe I sence from the salem mass court sir richard Salten stale was fined four bushels of malt TIIE assistants of salem mass in 1638 ordered two men to sit in stocks lecture day for traveling on the sabbath MARY OLIVES of salem mass was sentenced in have a cleft put on her tongue for half an hour for slandering the elders jal jall l scolds and in massachusetts chu during 1762 were gagged and i set in a ducking stool and dipped over bead and cars three times ly 1763 at ipswitch ipswich mass a notorious thief was sentenced to sit on the gallows an hour with a rope around his neck to be whipped thirty stripes and pay treble damages |
