Note 252 — Chapter XIV · SOCIETY IN THE OLD DOMINION. (continued 2)

Virginia Magazine, i. 128. A woman named Eve was burned in Orange County in 1746 for petty treason, i. e. murdering her master. Id. iii. 308. For poisoning the master’s family a man and woman were burned at Charleston, S. C., in 1769. Id. iv. 341. For petty treason a negro woman named Phillis was burned at the stake in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 18, 1755: see Boston Evening Post, Sept. 22, 1755; Paige’s History of Cambridge, p. 217. For riotous murder in the city of New York 21 negroes were executed in 1712, several of whom were burned and one was broken on the wheel; and again in 1741, in the panic over an imaginary plot, 13 negroes were burned at the stake: see Acts of Assembly, New York, ann. 1712; Documents relating to Colonial History of New York, vol. vi. ann. 1741. There may have been other cases. These here cited were especially notable.