The Disobedient son, and cruel husband : Being a full and true account of one Mr. John James, a gentleman's son in Wiltshire, whose father left him an estate of twenty hundred pounds a year, and married a lady of great fortune in the same place; but being reduced to poverty and want with riotous living, he killed his wife and children, and afterwards hanged his mother on a tree in the orchard, with the last dying words of this wretch, who was hanged before his mother's door. : To which are added, The wild rover and The humours of whiskey.

Format Electronic
Publication InfoDublin [i.e., Philadelphia?] : Printed by W. Jones ..., January, 1796.
Description8 pages ; (12mo)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 47767. ^A478749
General noteIn verse.
General noteBristol and Shipton & Mooney supply Philadelphia as actual place of publication without explanation. While there was a William Jones who was a bookseller and printer in Philadelphia in 1796, there was also a William Jones (fl. 1789-1802) active as a bookseller and printer in Dublin at this time.
References Bristol B9528
References Shipton & Mooney 47767
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 47767).
Genre/formPoems 1796.

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