The last words and dying speech of Edmund Fortis, a Negro man, who appeared to be between thirty and forty years of age, but very ignorant. He was executed at Dresden, on Kennebeck River, on Thursday the twenty-fifth day of September, 1794, for a rape and murder, committed on the body of Pamela Tilton, a young girl of about fourteen years of age, daughter of Mr. Tilton of Vassalborough, in the county of Lincoln.
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- The last words and dying speech of Edmund Fortis, a Negro man, who appeared to be between thirty and forty years of age, but very ignorant. He was executed at Dresden, on Kennebeck River, on Thursday the twenty-fifth day of September, 1794, for a rape and murder, committed on the body of Pamela Tilton, a young girl of about fourteen years of age, daughter of Mr. Tilton of Vassalborough, in the county of Lincoln.
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- Fortis, Edmund, d. 1794.
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- Printed and sold at Exeter [N.H.]-- :: [s.n.],
- 1795.
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- Subject terms
- Tilton, Pamela, 1780?-1794.
- Executions and executioners -- Maine -- Dresden.
- Criminals -- Maine.
- Murder -- Maine -- Vassalborough.
- Rape -- Maine -- Vassalborough.
- African American criminals -- Maine.
- Crime -- Maine.
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"The last words and dying speech of Edmund Fortis, a Negro man, who appeared to be between thirty and forty years of age, but very ignorant. He was executed at Dresden, on Kennebeck River, on Thursday the twenty-fifth day of September, 1794, for a rape and murder, committed on the body of Pamela Tilton, a young girl of about fourteen years of age, daughter of Mr. Tilton of Vassalborough, in the county of Lincoln." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N36305.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.