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John Roberts
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John Roberts
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Tuesday, January 06, 2026
“New Gate Prison was again broke open”
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Three months and a day after he first reported a convict escaped from Connecticut ’s New-Gate Prison , keeper John Viets wrote out a second...
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Monday, January 05, 2026
“The inexpressible Horrors of that Den of Death!”
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At the end of February 1774, Connecticut ’s New-Gate Prison was once again ready to house convicted criminals . The first prisoner sent t...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
The Tar-and-Feathering and Execution of John Roberts
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Last month I wrote about using today’s online newspaper databases to track down a couple of reports about women tarred and feathered by ...
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