Volume 1 — CAPITAL OFFENCES IN MASSACHUSETTS.
Reading edition
Thirteen offences were made capital by the original laws of Massachusetts Bay; namely, Idolatry; Witchcraft; Blasphemy; Murder; Bestiality; Sodomy; Adultery; Rape; Man-stealing; False-witness; Conspiracy, or rebellion against the government; Cursing or smiting the father or mother, after passing sixteen years of age, unless with justifying provocation, or with unchristianly neglect in education; Filial rebellion, after sixteen years of age.
To these were added, 1692, High Treason; Concealing the death of a bastard child; Arson; Piracy.