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Edmund Fortis

(Fortis, Edmund, -1794)

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• Fortis, Edmund, -1794: The Last Words and Dying Speech of Edmund Fortis, a Negro Man (1795) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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• Fortis, Edmund, -1794: The last words and dying speech of Edmund Fortis, a Negro man, who appeared to be between thirty and forty years of age, but very ignorant. He was executed at Dresden, on Kennebeck River, on Thursday the twenty-fifth day of September, 1794, for a rape and murder, committed on the body of Pamela Tilton, a young girl of about fourteen years of age, daughter of Mr. Tilton of Vassalborough, in the county of Lincoln. (Printed and sold at Exeter [N.H.]-- : [s.n.], 1795) (HTML at Evans TCP)

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