Hanging Ruth Blay: An Eighteenth-Century New Hampshire Tragedy by Carolyn Marvin

Hanging Ruth Blay: An Eighteenth-Century New Hampshire Tragedy

Carolyn Marvin

130 pages hardcover 2010

3 editions

nonfiction biography history true crime emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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On a cold December morning in 1768, thirty-one-year-old Ruth Blay approached the gallows erected for her execution. Standing on the high ground in the northwest corner of what is now Portsmouth's old South Cemetery, she would have had a clear view...

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