The vain prodigal life and tragical penitent death of Thomas Hellier, born at Whitchurch near Lyme in Dorset-shire [electronic resource] : who for murdering his master, mistress, and a maid, was executed according to law at Westover in Charles City, in the country of Virginia, neer the plantation called Hard Labour, where he perpetrated the said murders : he suffer'd on Munday the 5th of August, 1678, and was after hanged up in chains at Windmill-Point on James River.
1680
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The vain prodigal life and tragical penitent death of Thomas Hellier, born at Whitchurch near Lyme in Dorset-shire [electronic resource] : who for murdering his master, mistress, and a maid, was executed according to law at Westover in Charles City, in the country of Virginia, neer the plantation called Hard Labour, where he perpetrated the said murders : he suffer'd on Munday the 5th of August, 1678, and was after hanged up in chains at Windmill-Point on James River.
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London : Printed for Sam. Crouch ..., 1680.
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English
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1 online resource (40 p.).
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Hellier murdered his master, Cutbeard Williamson, May 24, 1678.
Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.
Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.
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Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery.
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