Extract from the Gazette, 1738
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette, June 15, 1738.

We have from Burlington a most melancholly Account of the Death of a Boy of 5 Years old, last Week, who hanged himself on the Stake of a Fence with a Rope he had been playing with in the Yard. He was first discover’d by means of the Crying of a younger Child, Brother won’t speak to me. Tis thought that the abundance of Discourse he had heard of the late Execution of Negroes for Poisoning, had fill’d his Mind, and put him on imitating what he had heard was done, not knowing the Danger. It is said, that he dreamt much of that Execution the Night before, and telling his Dream in the Morning, added, And I shall die to Day; which was not then regarded.

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