de Island and Thomas Powell from
Wethersfield, (Conn.); after the execution, their bodies were
taken to the north end of Goat Island, and buried on the shore,
between high and low water mark.

As this was the most extensive execution of Pirates that ever
took place at one time in the Colonies, it was attended by a vast
multitude from every part of New England.

From the _Salem Observer_, Nov. 11, 1843.

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Description of "Villains" in the "Boston Post-Boy," Dec. 12, 1763.

Tuesday last a Gang of Villains were apprehended at a House in
Roxbury, and brought to Town & committed to Goal, they have been
concerned in the late Robberies here, and 'tis suspected in some
of those towards Pennsylvania, for which Reason it will be proper
to advertise their Names, with some Description of them, which
are as follows, viz.

_William Robinson_, a tall slim fellow, about 5 Feet 7 inches
high, wears a blue Surtout Coat with metal Buttons, and his Hat
commonly flopt before, and an old laced Waistcoat, has short
curled black Hair; when he speaks he seems jaw-fallen and very
effeminate, is about 35 Years of Age, walks much like a
Foot-pad, and has a comely Woman with him whom he calls his
Wife.----_John Cassady_, a middling siz'd Fellow much
pock-broken, square-shoulder'd, wears a Wig upon the yellow
cast, and has a very guilty Countenance, is about 40 Years of
Age, and calls himself a Shoe-maker.--_John Willson_, a short
young Fellow, about 21 Years of Age, wears a blue Surtout Coat,
and short black Hair, of a pale Countenance, and calls himself a
Sail-maker.--_George Sears_, a well-set Fellow, with a comely
Face, black Hair twisted with a black Ribbon, and says he serv'd
3 Years to an Attorney in England.

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In the "Essex Gazette," Nov. 12, 1771, is the following news from
England:--

A Correspondent expresses great Surprise and indignation at the
Disproportion of Punishments in this Country. He says he read in
a News paper that two Men were hanged together last Month in
Kent, one of whom had committed a barbarous Murder on his Wife,
and the other had stolen three Shillings and Sixpence. In the
same Paper there followed immediately another Paragraph, that a
Woman had been only whipped for stealing little Children and