Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 123
53 a woman stood for anhour in the pillory near the Town House, amid the scoffs andjeers of the multitude. The Scarlet Letter is no myth; Haw-thorne had but to turn to the criminal records of the Colonyfor the dramatic incidents he has related. The General Courtenacted in 1695 a law to prevent… … THE STOCKS. FEOM THE OLD STATE HOUSE TO BOSTON PIER. 93 common jail be severely whipped. The offenders were forever towear a capital letter I, cut out of cloth of a color differentfrom their clothes, on the arm or back, in open view. If theculprit removed the letter, he or she was to be further…
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