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Plotting murder. In the spring of 1777, sixteen-year-old Ezra Ross, a soldier in the Continental Army, fell ill en route to his home in Linebrook, a village in Ipswich. Bathsheba nursed him back to health. On his travels to and from army service, Ross visited the Spooner home in July and December 1777. [citation needed] .
In March of 1778, a traveler brought strange news to Sandwich, Mass., about an unnatural murder in Brookfield. A woman had hired two Russians to kill her husband. The woman turned out to be well-known in Sandwich: Bathsheba Spooner, daughter of a notorious Loyalist.
19 de jun. de 2021 · In 1778, sixteen-year-old Ezra Ross of Ipswich was condemned to death for the murder of Joshua Spooner of Brookfield. Spooner's wife Bathsheba became the first woman executed in the newly-created United States of America.
20 de sept. de 2018 · Despite the insanity plea, the jury found Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner, Ezra Ross, James Buchanan, and William Brooks, guilty of murder. Chief Justice William Cushing pronounced the penalty: death by hanging.
Joshua Spooner, a wealthy Brookfield gentleman, was bludgeoned to death on the evening of March i, 1778, and his body was discovered the next day, stuffed head first down his own well.
28 de mar. de 2021 · Five thousand people showed up in Worcester to watch Spooner and the three men — one a Continental Army solider and the other two British Army deserters — accused of murdering her husband be hanged...
2 de jul. de 2020 · Bathsheba Spooner, the first woman executed* in the post-Declaration of Independence (i.e., post-July 4, 1776) United States.
