I am now to finish a life, which, long since, by the equitable laws of my country, I justly forfeited ... May all ... take warning by the awful spectacle which this body of mine will exhibit, when suspended in the place destined for its suffering - Shearman, John (Printed and sold by Z. Fowle, at his printing-office in Back-Street, 1764)
Bristol, B2516. - Confession and dying warning of John Shearman, who was apprehended in Boston, and executed, for burglary, at Newport, R.I., on November 16, 1764. Signed: John Shearman. - Shipton & Mooney, 41487. - Text in three columns. - The only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, is a fragment, lacking the top half of the sheet. Title from extant text. Cf. Bristol B2515 for a similar broadside, printed at Boston by Richard and Samuel Draper