{"id":3617,"date":"2013-05-17T15:04:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T15:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2021-05-26T13:04:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T17:04:59","slug":"capital-punishment-in-the-1700s-women-burned-at-the-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/capital-punishment-in-the-1700s-women-burned-at-the-stake.html","title":{"rendered":"Capital Punishment in the 1700s: Women Burned at the Stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you committed murder in 1755 you were dealt with severely. However, the punishment for the crime was not always the same for a man as it was for a woman.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3618\" style=\"width: 1004px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/evening-post-newspaper-0922-1755-executions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3618\" title=\"evening-post-newspaper-0922-1755-executions\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/evening-post-newspaper-0922-1755-executions.png\" alt=\"notice of a 1755 execution in Massachusetts, Evening Post newspaper article 22 September 1755\" width=\"1004\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/evening-post-newspaper-0922-1755-executions.png 1004w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/evening-post-newspaper-0922-1755-executions-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/evening-post-newspaper-0922-1755-executions-500x205.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1004px) 100vw, 1004px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evening Post (Boston, Massachusetts), 22 September 1755, page 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In this article from an old 1700s newspaper, we learn that a man and a woman servant were found guilty of the murder of their master. The woman was burned at the stake for the crime.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the man was hanged on the gallows, and then later his body was hung in the town square by a chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you committed murder in 1755 you were dealt with severely. However, the punishment for the crime was not always the same for a man as it was for a woman. In this article from an old 1700s newspaper, we learn that a man and a woman servant were found guilty of the murder of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[1126,3983,3997,3989,3993,3992,3991,465,2191,3996,3994,443,1067,3990,2020,27,3995],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-cambridge","tag-capital-punishment","tag-codman","tag-crime","tag-death-by-burning","tag-executions","tag-hanging","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-history","tag-john-codman","tag-judy-g-russell","tag-ma","tag-massachusetts","tag-murder","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-newspapers","tag-russell"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78419,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions\/78419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}