Treacherous Beauty

by Stephen Case

  Epilogue

  629 Gottlieb, “Theater of Death”; Banner, The Death Penalty, 71. Hanging was a common form of execution in eighteenth-century America, but there were exceptions. Catherine Bevan of Pennsylvania was burned at the stake in 1731 for killing her husband.

  630 Gillespie, Executed Women, 67.

  631 Kerber, Women of the Republic, 122.

  632 “An Intercepted Letter of Dr. Benjamin Church, Loyalist,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 41 (1917): 507–508.

  633 Norton, 175–176; De Pauw, Founding Mothers, 137–138.

  634 Fortescue, 332–333.

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