• Bathsheba Spooner: A Revolutionary Murder Conspiracy

  • Jan 14 2025
  • Length: 37 mins
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Bathsheba Spooner: A Revolutionary Murder Conspiracy

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  • March 1, 1778, Joshua Spooner, a businessman in Brookfield, Massachusetts, and member of the local Committee of Correspondence, is murdered. The next day his body is found in the well behind his house, and at a tavern in a neighboring town two British soldiers--taken prisoner at Saratoga--are found wearing Spooner's shoe buckles and other pieces of clothing. In an attic in a neighboring tavern magistrates find Ezra Ross, a teen-aged veteran of Saratoga. The three men confess to killing Spooner--but insist they were instigated by Spooner's wife, Bathsheba, who is now pregnant with Ross's child. Find out more about this spectacular case--Bathsheba's father was exiled General Timothy Ruggles, Robert Treat Paine was the prosecutor in the Worcester Court House, and Levi Lincoln defended Bathsheba and her accomplices, who were executed in July 1778 before a crowd of thousands in one of the most sensational murder cases in American history. Andrew Noone has written the story of the case in Bathsheba Spooner: A Revolutionary Murder Conspiracy.

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