Note 92 — Chapter XIV

Thursday last, in the Afternoon, Mark, a Negro Man, and Phillis, a Negro Woman, both Servants of the late Capt. John Codman, were executed at Cambridge, for poisoning their said Master, as mentioned in this Paper some Weeks ago. The Fellow was hanged, and the Woman burned at a Stake about Ten Yards distant from the Gallows. They both confessed themselves guilty of the Crime for which they suffered, acknowledged the Justice of their Sentence, and died very penitent. After Execution, the Body of Mark was brought down to Charlestown Common, and hanged in Chains, on a Gibbet erected there for that Purpose.—Boston Evening-Post, Sept. 22, 1755.