At 02:21 PM 2/25/2009, Dave Howe wrote: >Can someone point me in the direction to find a newspaper article >Worcester, 1778, Ezra Ross, Bathsheba Spooner, and two others hung >for the murder of Bathsheba's husband.It seems Ezra, on his way home >from the War with his three brothers, became infatuated with Bathsheba. Dave - The only newspaper published in Worcester in that year was the Massachusetts Spy, a weekly. I cannot find any article in it concerning that event. I did find a 23-Jul-1778 notice of publication by the Spy (Vol. VIII, Issue 377, p. 4) of the dying declaration of the three male defendants. An image of that page is coming to you off-list. I also found an 04-Sep-1778 notice of publication by the Spy (Vol. VIII, Issue 383, p. 4) of a sermon concerning the execution of the four defendants. An image of that page is coming to you off-list. I also searched all 137 Massachusetts newspaper titles available at NewsBank, and could find only one mention of the event. The (Boston) Continental Journal of 30-Apr-1778 (Issue CI), p. 3, had a brief notice of the sentencing of the defendants in Worcester Superior Court. An image of that page is coming to you off-list. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net