God's revenge against murder; or The drown'd wife. A tragedy, as lately performed, with unbounded applause, (of the Devil and his court) by Ned Findley, Esquire, one of the grand company of tragedians in the service of the Black Prince, who was so highly gratified with Ned's performance, that he instantly provided him rooms in one of his own palaces; created him a knight of the most ignoble order of the halter, clapped bracelets on his wrists, and an ornament round his neck; and in a few days promoted him to the ridge pole of the gallows, at Edgefield Court-House, South Carolina. By M.L. Weems, of Lodge no. 50, Dumfries. Tenth Edition, Enlarged—Price, 25 cents.

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Title God's revenge against murder; or The drown'd wife. A tragedy, as lately performed, with unbounded applause, (of the Devil and his court) by Ned Findley, Esquire, one of the grand company of tragedians in the service of the Black Prince, who was so highly gratified with Ned's performance, that he instantly provided him rooms in one of his own palaces; created him a knight of the most ignoble order of the halter, clapped bracelets on his wrists, and an ornament round his neck; and in a few days promoted him to the ridge pole of the gallows, at Edgefield Court-House, South Carolina. By M.L. Weems, of Lodge no. 50, Dumfries. Tenth Edition, Enlarged—Price, 25 cents.
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Signed Author By M.L. Weems, of Lodge no. 50, Dumfries.
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Volumes 1
Pagination 40
Date of Publication 1816
Edition Statement Tenth Edition, Enlarged
Edition Number 10
Date of First Publication
Imprint Printed for the author.
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Copyright Statement Copyright secured, according to Act of Congress.
Location of Printing Philadelphia US
Format Octavo (8vo)
Length (cm) 23
Width (cm)
Price (pound)
Price (shilling)
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Non-UK Price US$0.25
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Caption title: The sorrowful life and cruel death of Mary Findley, (daughter of Major Hugh Middleton, Edgefield District, South Carolina.) Who, after giving a handsome fortune to a most depraved husband, was barbarously drown'd by him in eight weeks after marriage!!!
"The case is not mentioned in Jack Kenny Williams' Vogues in villainy (Columbia; University of South Carolina Press, 1959), a history of ante-bellum crime in South Carolina, and could be another of the Parson's [i.e., Weems's] whimseys."--McDade, no. 305.
Although no newspaper account of the murder or execution has been located, an advertisement for the fifth edition of Weems' history of Mary "Polly" Middleton in the March 14, 1809, issue of the Alexandria gazette, Alexandria, Va., states that Weems "was on the spot where Mr. Findley was executed, at Edgfield [sic] Court-House, South Carolina, April 27, 1804." Genealogical records for Hugh Middleton, while inconclusive in some respects, do include a daughter Mary who died in 1804.
Ascribed by Nipps to the press of Lydia R. Bailey.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
McDade, T.M. Annals of murder,
Nipps, K. Lydia Bailey,
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Weems, Mason Locke. God's revenge against murder; or The drown'd wife. A tragedy, as lately performed, with unbounded applause, (of the Devil and his court) by Ned Findley, Esquire, one of the grand company of tragedians in the service of the Black Prince, who was so highly gratified with Ned's performance, that he instantly provided him rooms in one of his own palaces; created him a knight of the most ignoble order of the halter, clapped bracelets on his wrists, and an ornament round his neck; and in a few days promoted him to the ridge pole of the gallows, at Edgefield Court-House, South Carolina. By M.L. Weems, of Lodge no. 50, Dumfries. Tenth Edition, Enlarged—Price, 25 cents.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 21845, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/21845. Accessed 2024-12-23. 

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