List of Illustrations

Map of Berkshire County, ca. 1800

Introduction: The Ride to the Gallows

1. The Setting

2. The Trial

3. The Daughter

4. The Wife and Mother

5. The Condemned Man

6. The Final Judgment

7. The Execution

Aftermath: People and Memory

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Irene Quenzler Brown, a historian, is Associate Professor of Family Studies, University of Connecticut.

Richard D. Brown is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History, University of Connecticut, and Director, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.