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Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner ( February 15, 1746 – July 2, 1778 ) was the first woman to be executed in the United States by Americans rather than the British.
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Bathsheba and Ruggles
Ruggles left his daughter, Bathsheba Ruggles, behind enemy lines in Massachusetts.
The daughter of a prominent Colonial American lawyer, justice and military officer, Bathsheba Ruggles had an arranged marriage to a wealthy farmer, Joshua Spooner, prior to her father's banishment from Massachusetts in 1774, due to his British Loyalist stance.
Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner was the daughter of Brigadier General Timothy Ruggles, a lawyer who had served as chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1762 to 1764, and founder and most eminent citizen of the town of Hardwick, Massachusetts.
Under public censure for his refusal to sign the Stamp Act protest as Massachusetts representative to the 1765 Stamp Act Congress, Ruggles might have arranged the marriage on January 15, 1766, for his daughter to Joshua Spooner, but no documentation has yet turned up to explain why Bathsheba Ruggles married a man she very soon came to hate.
Bathsheba and Spooner
* July 2 – Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer ( b. c. 1746 )
* Bathsheba Spooner, criminal
Bathsheba Spooner and the three men were tried and convicted of the crime and sentenced to death.
The son of a wealthy Boston merchant, Spooner was a well-to-do Brookfield farmer, later described as an abusive man for whom his wife, Bathsheba developed " an utter aversion.
" The Spooners had their first child, Elizabeth, on April 8, 1767 Three more followed between 1770 and 1775 ; Joshua ( February 21, 1770-September 18, 1801 ), who died in London, England and daughter Bathsheba Spooner ( January 17, 1775 – 1858 ).
When Ezra Ross first met Bathsheba Spooner in the Spring of 1777, he was a sixteen-year-old soldier in the Continental Army, who had already served in the American Revolution under George Washington for a year.
Ross was walking north from Washington's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey, on his way home to Linebrook, Massachusetts, when he fell ill and was nursed to health by Bathsheba Spooner before heading on to his home.
Ross stayed on at the Spooner house through Christmas and into the new year, travelling with Joshua Spooner on business trips, as well as carrying on an illicit affair with Bathsheba Spooner.
Bathsheba Spooner became pregnant mid-January and began urging Ross to dispose of her husband before her condition would prove that she had committed adultery.
Ross brought along a bottle of nitric acid, given to him by Bathsheba, which he planned to use to poison Spooner.
While Ross and Joshua Spooner were in Princeton, Bathsheba Spooner had invited two runaway British prisoners of war, Private Williams Brooks and Sergeant James Buchanan, to stay at the Spooner home.
Bathsheba Spooner distributed paper money from her husband's lock box and articles of his clothing to the three men, who then took one of the Spooner horses to Worcester, 14 miles distant
The trio implicated Bathsheba Spooner and three of her household servants, Sarah Stratton, her son Jesse Parker, and Alexander Cummings.
Brooks was charged with the assault on Joshua Spooner, Buchanan and Ross were charged with aiding and abetting in the murder, and Bathsheba Spooner was charged with inciting, abetting, and procuring the manner and form of the murder.
There was little Lincoln could do to defend Brooks or Buchanan because they ( with Ezra Ross ) had dictated and signed a lengthy written confession to the crime, but Lincoln did mount a credible defence in support of Ezra Ross and Bathsheba Spooner.
Bathsheba and 15
Since 2 Samuel 11: 3 notes that Eliam is the father of Bathsheba, some scholars suggest that the Ahitophel of 2 Samuel 15 may in fact be Bathsheba's grandfather.
15: 12 ), a city of Judah, and thus Bathsheba was from David's own tribe and the granddaughter of one of David's closest advisors ( 2 Sam. 15: 12 ).
Bathsheba and –
The 583-item Collection La Caze donated in 1869, included works by Chardin ; Fragonard ; Rembrandt – such as Bathsheba at Her Bath – and Gilles by Watteau.
Boldwood is a prosperous farmer of about forty whose ardour Bathsheba unwittingly awakens when – her curiosity piqued because he has never bestowed on her the customary admiring glance – she playfully sends him a valentine sealed with red wax on which she has embossed the words " Marry me ".
Gabriel, who has long known of Troy's relationship with Fanny, tries to conceal the child's existence – but Bathsheba, suspecting the truth and wild with jealousy, arranges for the coffin to be left in her house overnight.
The title may be ironic: the five main characters – Bathsheba, Troy, Boldwood, Oak, and Fanny Robin – are all passionate beings who find the " vale of life " neither quiet nor cool.
Thomas was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, the fourth child of Abraham Lincoln ( 1744 – 1786 ) and Bathsheba Herring ( c1742 – 1836 ).
Bathsheba and 2
* Court History of David or Succession narrative ( 2 Samuel 9-20 and 1 Kings 1-2 ): a " historical novel ", in Alberto Soggin's phrase, telling the story of David's reign from his affair with Bathsheba to his death.
Bathsheba was a daughter of Eliam, one of David's " thirty " ( 2 Sam.
#" Bathsheba Bathes "-( 2: 52 ) is about King David and Bathsheba.
This theme is also in 2 Samuel 11: 2's account of David and Bathsheba.
In 2 Samuel, King David of Israel observes Bathsheba while bathing.
Bathsheba and 1778
The cases ranged from famous assassinations ( of Abraham Lincoln, Leon Trotsky, and Julius Caesar ) and the lives ( and often deaths ) of the likes of Cesare Borgia and Blackbeard to more obscure cases, such as Bathsheba Spooner, who killed her husband Joshua Spooner in 1778 and became the first woman tried and executed in America.
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David's adultery with Bathsheba was only an opportunity to demonstrate the power of repentance, and some Talmudic authors stated that it was not adultery at all, quoting a Jewish practice of divorce on the eve of battle.
While David was in this state his fourth son Adonijah, heir apparent to the throne after the death of his elder brothers Amnon and Absalom, acted to have himself declared king, But Bathsheba, a wife of David and Solomon's mother, along with the prophet Nathan convinced David to proclaim Solomon king.
Also, the two mountains which form the entrance to Kukuana Land ( where the mines are located in the novel ) are referred to as ' Sheba's Breasts ' which could well be an allusion to the Queen of Sheba, with whom King Solomon had a relationship ; or alternatively Solomon's mother, who was named Bathsheba.
Four people were hanged for the crime: two British soldiers, a young Continental soldier, and Spooner's wife, Bathsheba, who was charged with instigating the murder.
Bathsheba was the mother of three young children, and in her own words felt " an utter aversion " for her husband, who was known to be an abusive drunk.
As a student, his 1654 painting titled Bathsheba was inspired by Rembrandt's painting done in the same year on the same subject and given the same title, though their treatments are rather different ; both Drost ’ s and Rembrandt ’ s paintings are in the Louvre in Paris.
* King David fasted when the son of his adulterous union with Bathsheba was struck sick by God, in punishment for the adultery and for David's murder of Bathsheba's husband, Uriah the Hittite.
The household was centred on the Ferrar family: Nicholas's mother, his brother John Ferrar ( with his wife Bathsheba and their children ), and his sister Susanna ( and her husband John Collett and their children ).
Boldwood, not realising the valentine was a jest, becomes obsessed with Bathsheba, and soon proposes marriage.
* Katniss Everdeen, the main character of the novel The Hunger Games, was so named as a tribute to Bathsheba, according to author Suzanne Collins.
According to the Hebrew Bible, Bathsheba (, Bath Shebha, " daughter of the oath ") (, " ابنة القسم ") was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David, king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah.
Bathsheba was the daughter of Eliam (, who is called Ammiel in ).
Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite, and afterward of David, by whom she gave birth to Solomon, who succeeded David as king.
The story is told that David, while walking on the roof of his palace, saw Bathsheba, who was then the wife of Uriah, having a bath.
After repeated efforts to convince Uriah to have sex with Bathsheba, the king gave the order to his general, Joab, that Uriah should be placed in the front lines of the battle, where it was the most dangerous, and left to the hands of the enemy.
After Uriah was dead, David made the now widowed Bathsheba his wife.
Bathsheba was the granddaughter of Ahithophel, David's famous counselor, whom David had good relations with.
The Midrash portrays the influence of Satan bringing about the sinful relation of David and Bathsheba as follows: Bathsheba was bathing, perhaps behind a screen of wickerwork.
Bathsheba may have been providentially destined from the Creation to become in due time the legitimate wife of David ; but this relation was prematurely precipitated by David's impetuous act.
The father of Bathsheba was Eliam ( spelled " Ammiel " in I Chronicles 3: 5 ).
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