Here's one of the more bizarre online databases I've come across recently: http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/execution/PENNSYLVANIA.htm It's a listing of executions by the state prior to the use of lethal injection, and includes the person's name when known, their occupation, actual crime, their location by county, date of execution and age when known. I guess it's case of hoping to not find your ancestor on the list, but an interesting database nonetheless.... For some really interesting reading, take a look at the early Massachusetts entries. The main page of the site is: http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/execution.htm -Mary http://gen.atleeridge.us/ Southeastern PA Genealogy and History

I have been to this site before. It is very interesting. I have a family connection listed on the New Jersey page. If you go on the main page and click on New Jersey, my relative Hannah Louise Dorland was murdered by #113-Jacob Harden who was the minister of the Anderson Methodist Church in Mansfield Twp., Warren Co., NJ. He murdered his wife (my distant cousin) Hannah Louise Dorland by giving her a poisoned apple. He felt he was tricked into marriage by her family, and after they were married he poisoned her. He skipped off to Virginia where they found him three days later and brought him back for trial. He was convicted and hanged the next year. Jackie Wells Lubinski [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Mary McIndoe [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 10:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [PACHESTE] Skeletons in the closet Here's one of the more bizarre online databases I've come across recently: http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/execution/PENNSYLVANIA.htm It's a listing of executions by the state prior to the use of lethal injection, and includes the person's name when known, their occupation, actual crime, their location by county, date of execution and age when known. I guess it's case of hoping to not find your ancestor on the list, but an interesting database nonetheless.... For some really interesting reading, take a look at the early Massachusetts entries. The main page of the site is: http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/execution.htm -Mary http://gen.atleeridge.us/ Southeastern PA Genealogy and History ==== PACHESTE Mailing List ==== Visit the PAGenWeb website http://www.pagenweb.org

At 08:49 AM 5/23/2004, you wrote: >I have been to this site before. It is very interesting. > >I have a family connection listed on the New Jersey page. If you go on the >main page and click on New Jersey, my relative Hannah Louise Dorland was >murdered by #113-Jacob Harden who was the minister of the Anderson Methodist >Church in Mansfield Twp., Warren Co., NJ. He murdered his wife (my distant >cousin) Hannah Louise Dorland by giving her a poisoned apple. He felt he was >tricked into marriage by her family, and after they were married he poisoned >her. He skipped off to Virginia where they found him three days later and >brought him back for trial. He was convicted and hanged the next year. > >Jackie Wells Lubinski >[email protected] It really is interesting to see what the whole story is, isn't it? And it goes to show, too, that sometimes we can find out a lot more about something if we look outside the normal places for the information. One of my best finds over the years of researching my own family was finding out that the old quilt my mother had tucked away from her mother's side of the family was actually an old Quaker autograph quilt, complete with the names of the family members and their relationship to the maker of the quilt! Certainly not a normal kind of source but a very valuable one in my case! -Mary http://gen.atleeridge.us/ Southeastern PA Genealogy and History

And possibly quite valuable as a result! Vince On Sun, 23 May 2004, Mary McIndoe wrote: > At 08:49 AM 5/23/2004, you wrote: > >I have been to this site before. It is very interesting. > > > >I have a family connection listed on the New Jersey page. If you go on the > >main page and click on New Jersey, my relative Hannah Louise Dorland was > >murdered by #113-Jacob Harden who was the minister of the Anderson Methodist > >Church in Mansfield Twp., Warren Co., NJ. He murdered his wife (my distant > >cousin) Hannah Louise Dorland by giving her a poisoned apple. He felt he was > >tricked into marriage by her family, and after they were married he poisoned > >her. He skipped off to Virginia where they found him three days later and > >brought him back for trial. He was convicted and hanged the next year. > > > >Jackie Wells Lubinski > >[email protected] > > It really is interesting to see what the whole story is, isn't it? And it > goes to show, too, that sometimes we can find out a lot more about > something if we look outside the normal places for the information. One of > my best finds over the years of researching my own family was finding out > that the old quilt my mother had tucked away from her mother's side of the > family was actually an old Quaker autograph quilt, complete with the names > of the family members and their relationship to the maker of the quilt! > Certainly not a normal kind of source but a very valuable one in my case! > > -Mary > > http://gen.atleeridge.us/ > Southeastern PA Genealogy and History > > > > ==== PACHESTE Mailing List ==== > Check out the searchable USGenWeb Project Archives! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/usgwarch.html >