Memoirs of the Rev. Ammi Rogers, A.M. a clergyman of the Episcopal Church, educated at Yale College in Connecticut, ordained in Trinity Church in the City of New-York,-- persecuted in the state of Connecticut, on account of religion and politics, for almost twenty years--and finally, falsely accused and imprisoned in Norwich Gaol for two years, on the charge of crime said to have been committed with a young woman in the town of Griswold, in the county of New-London, when he was not within about one hundred miles of her: and of which he was absolutely innocent as the judge who pronounced the sentence, or as either of the jury who declared him guilty, or as any other person in the world
Hebron, CT? Published for the Subscribers, by the Author, 1824. First Edition. Octavo; recent tan morocco over green cloth, gilt-lettered spine in five compartments, new endpapers; 264pp. Text block unevenly toned and foxed, else a Very Good copy in a fine modern binding. Text concludes with a lengthy list of..... More
