On December 20, 1786 - Hannah Ocuish, a Native American, was hanged in Connecticut for the murder of another child in late July. She was the youngest girl to be executed in America, at just 12 years and 9 months old. She was convicted in New London of beating and choking 6-year-old Eunice Bolles to death out of revenge. A few weeks previous to the killing, Eunice had reported Hannah for stealing fruit.
"N E W - L O N D O N, July 28.
"About 9 a.m. on Friday last, a daughter of Mr. James Bolles of this town, aged six years and six months, was found murdered and lying in the Norwich Road, between two and three miles from this city. —The head and body were mangled in a shocking manner, the back and one arm broken, and a number of heavy stones placed on the body, arms and legs. The perpetrator of this horrid crime was the next day, discovered to be an Indian girl that lived with Mrs. Rogers, widow of Mr. Ichabod Rogers), aged only twelve years and four months, who had been heard to threaten the above child with chastisement for a supposed injury done to her about six weeks before the murder. The child was on its way to school when discovered by the Indian girl, who followed her about twenty rods from her mistress's house to perform the shocking deed. She is committed to gaol, for trial, in September next."
(Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer (Hartford, Connecticut), Monday, July 31, 1786, p. 3.)
"N E W - L O N D O N, July 28.
"About 9 a.m. on Friday last, a daughter of Mr. James Bolles of this town, aged six years and six months, was found murdered and lying in the Norwich Road, between two and three miles from this city. —The head and body were mangled in a shocking manner, the back and one arm broken, and a number of heavy stones placed on the body, arms and legs. The perpetrator of this horrid crime was the next day, discovered to be an Indian girl that lived with Mrs. Rogers, widow of Mr. Ichabod Rogers), aged only twelve years and four months, who had been heard to threaten the above child with chastisement for a supposed injury done to her about six weeks before the murder. The child was on its way to school when discovered by the Indian girl, who followed her about twenty rods from her mistress's house to perform the shocking deed. She is committed to gaol, for trial, in September next."
(Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer (Hartford, Connecticut), Monday, July 31, 1786, p. 3.)
On December 20, 1786 - Hannah Ocuish, a Native American, was hanged in Connecticut for the murder of another child in late July. She was the youngest girl to be executed in America, at just 12 years and 9 months old. She was convicted in New London of beating and choking 6-year-old Eunice Bolles to death out of revenge. A few weeks previous to the killing, Eunice had reported Hannah for stealing fruit.
"N E W - L O N D O N, July 28.
"About 9 a.m. on Friday last, a daughter of Mr. James Bolles of this town, aged six years and six months, was found murdered and lying in the Norwich Road, between two and three miles from this city. —The head and body were mangled in a shocking manner, the back and one arm broken, and a number of heavy stones placed on the body, arms and legs. The perpetrator of this horrid crime was the next day, discovered to be an Indian girl that lived with Mrs. Rogers, widow of Mr. Ichabod Rogers), aged only twelve years and four months, who had been heard to threaten the above child with chastisement for a supposed injury done to her about six weeks before the murder. The child was on its way to school when discovered by the Indian girl, who followed her about twenty rods from her mistress's house to perform the shocking deed. She is committed to gaol, for trial, in September next."
(Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer (Hartford, Connecticut), Monday, July 31, 1786, p. 3.)
"N E W - L O N D O N, July 28.
"About 9 a.m. on Friday last, a daughter of Mr. James Bolles of this town, aged six years and six months, was found murdered and lying in the Norwich Road, between two and three miles from this city. —The head and body were mangled in a shocking manner, the back and one arm broken, and a number of heavy stones placed on the body, arms and legs. The perpetrator of this horrid crime was the next day, discovered to be an Indian girl that lived with Mrs. Rogers, widow of Mr. Ichabod Rogers), aged only twelve years and four months, who had been heard to threaten the above child with chastisement for a supposed injury done to her about six weeks before the murder. The child was on its way to school when discovered by the Indian girl, who followed her about twenty rods from her mistress's house to perform the shocking deed. She is committed to gaol, for trial, in September next."
(Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer (Hartford, Connecticut), Monday, July 31, 1786, p. 3.)
