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Seducer of Souls: Sandwich’s Bathsheba Spooner and the First U.S. Death Penalty Case

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Seducer of Souls: Sandwich’s Bathsheba Spooner and the First U.S. Death Penalty Case

The daughter of one of Massachusetts’s most notorious Tories during the Revolutionary War period, Bathsheba Spooner sought her own peace accord between two British soldiers and her teenaged patriot-Army lover. . . an agreement to murder her husband. . . .

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