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Rachel Faugno has worked as a teacher, newspaper correspondent, freelance writer, and magazine editor. Raised in Utah and California, she has lived in Massachusetts since the 1970s. She writes:

WHEN I MOVED TO BROOKFIELD, Massachusetts, around 1975, one of the first bits of local history I heard about was the murder of Joshua Spooner by his wife, Bathsheba. A well-to-do resident of Brookfield, Bathsheba was hanged for the crime in 1778, making her the first woman executed in the newly formed United States.

The murder caused a sensation, in part because she was the daughter of a prominent Tory who was forced to flee when the American Revolution broke out. She was also pregnant with her teen-aged lover’s child. To many observers, the unwilling ...more

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