 | Charles Warren Brewster - Portsmouth (N.H.) - 1859 - 388 pages
...Sheriff Packer, (the locality of Richard Jenness' house,) and an effigy was there erected, bearing this inscription : Am I to- lose my dinner This woman...Come draw away the cart, my boys — Don't stop to aay amen. (C7~ Draw away, draw away the cart ! May this last execution in Portsmouth, which occurred... | |
 | Albert Laighton - American poetry - 1859 - 144 pages
...gathered that evening around the residence of Sheriff Packer, and an effigy was there erected, bearing this inscription : — Am I to lose my dinner This...to hang? Come, draw away the cart, my boys ; Dont Btop to say amen. — Rambles About Portsmouth. (121) 122 IN the worn and dusty annals Of our old and... | |
 | Charles Warren Brewster - Portsmouth (N.H.) - 1873 - 406 pages
...Sheriff Packer, (the locality of Richard Jenness's house,) and an effigy was there erected, bearing this inscription: Am I to lose my dinner This woman...away the cart, my boys—- Don't stop to say amen. away, draw away the cart ! RAMBLES ABOUT PORTSMOUTH. May this last execution in Portsmouth, which occurred... | |
 | James Creighton Odiorne - Odiorne family - 1875 - 242 pages
...indignant populace that evening erected an effigy in front of Packer's house, beneath which was the inscription, — " Am I to lose my dinner This woman for to hang ? Come, drive away the cart, my boys; Don't stop to say — Amen." D. PAGE 27. — SIR JOHN WENTWORTH was educated... | |
 | Charles Warren Brewster - Portsmouth (N.H.) - 1878 - 414 pages
...Sheriff Packer, (the locality of Richard Jenness's house,) and an effigy was there erected, bearing this inscription: Am I to lose my dinner This woman for to hang ? Come drew away the cart, my boys — Don't stop to aay amen. away, draw away the cart I RAMBLES ABOUT PORTSMOUTH.... | |
 | Mary Caroline Crawford - Bars (Drinking establishments) - 1907 - 512 pages
...great that they gathered that evening around Sheriff Packer's house, and erected an effigy bearing this inscription: " Am I to lose my dinner This woman...away the cart, my boys — Don't stop to say amen D"RAW AWAY, DRAW AWAY THE CART ! " Subsequently it was learned that Ruth Blay's child had been still-born... | |
 | Harold Hotchkiss Bennett - Portsmouth (N.H.) - 1913 - 66 pages
...for his dinner. The enraged populace hung the Sheriff's effigy before his house that night with the inscription, "Am I to lose my dinner, This woman for...draw away the cart my boys, Don't stop to say amen." After the death of Sheriff Packer, in 1771, the house became the residence of Honorable John Langdon.... | |
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... populace can hardly be conceived when it was ascertained that a reprieve from the governor came a few minutes after her spirit had been hastened away. They gathered that evening around the residence of Sheriff Packer, (the locality of Richard... 