Note 250 — Chapter VII · Lynch-law and its Justification
Reading edition
“Records of the Court of Assistants of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay” (J. Noble, 1901), p. 74.
The following passage is taken from the Boston Chronicle, Sept. 26–Oct. 3, 1768 (No. 42, I, 383): “We hear that a negro fellow was tried at the Assizes held lately at Worcester, for a rape, and found guilty, and received sentence of death.—A white man was also tried and found guilty of the same crime, and sentenced to sit on the gallows.”