The life and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett, apprentice to an attorney at law. Who for a murder which he never committed, was tried, condemned, executed, and hung in chains, in old England: yet lived many years afterwards, and in his travels found the man in the West Indies actually alive; for the supposed murder of whom he had been really executed. Demonstratively proving, that condemnations upon circumstantial evidence are injurious to innocence, incompatible with justice, and therefore ought always to be discountenanced, especially in cases of life and death.

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  • The life and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett, apprentice to an attorney at law. Who for a murder which he never committed, was tried, condemned, executed, and hung in chains, in old England: yet lived many years afterwards, and in his travels found the man in the West Indies actually alive; for the supposed murder of whom he had been really executed. Demonstratively proving, that condemnations upon circumstantial evidence are injurious to innocence, incompatible with justice, and therefore ought always to be discountenanced, especially in cases of life and death.
  • Life and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett
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Imprint
Hudson [N.Y.]: Printed and sold by Ashbel Stoddard, M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]
Publication year
1786-1786
ESTC No.
W19273
Grub Street ID
328927
Description
23,[1]p. ; 12⁰
Note
Attributed to Isaac Bickerstaff in the Dictionary of national biography.
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