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- catalog abstract ""On a winter's evening in 1673, tragedy descended on the respectable Rhode Island household of Thomas Cornell. His 73-year-old mother, Rebecca, was found close to her her bedroom's large fireplace, dead and badly burned. The legal owner of the Cornells' hundred acres along Narragansett Bay, Rebecca shared her home with Thomas and his family, a servant, and a lodger. A coroner's panel initially declared her death "an Unhappie Accident," but before summer arrived, a dark web of events - rumors of domestic abuse; allusions to witchcraft; even the testimony of Rebecca's ghost, who visited her brother - resulted in Thomas's trial for matricide. Such were the ambiguities of the case that others would be tried for the murder as well." "Rebecca is a direct ancestor of Cornell University's founder, Ezra Cornell. Elaine Forman Crane tells the story of Rebecca's death and its aftermath, vividly depicting the world in which she lived. That world included a legal system where jurors were expected to be familiar with the defendant and case before the trial even began. Rebecca's death was an event of cataclysmic proportions, affecting not only her own community, but neighboring towns as well."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12628072.
- catalog coverage "Portsmouth (R.I.) History 17th century.".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""On a winter's evening in 1673, tragedy descended on the respectable Rhode Island household of Thomas Cornell. His 73-year-old mother, Rebecca, was found close to her her bedroom's large fireplace, dead and badly burned. The legal owner of the Cornells' hundred acres along Narragansett Bay, Rebecca shared her home with Thomas and his family, a servant, and a lodger. A coroner's panel initially declared her death "an Unhappie Accident," but before summer arrived, a dark web of events - rumors of domestic abuse; allusions to witchcraft; even the testimony of Rebecca's ghost, who visited her brother - resulted in Thomas's trial for matricide. Such were the ambiguities of the case that others would be tried for the murder as well." "Rebecca is a direct ancestor of Cornell University's founder, Ezra Cornell. Elaine Forman Crane tells the story of Rebecca's death and its aftermath, vividly depicting the world in which she lived. That world included a legal system where jurors were expected to be familiar with the defendant and case before the trial even began. Rebecca's death was an event of cataclysmic proportions, affecting not only her own community, but neighboring towns as well."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Death in the Family -- The Background of a Tragedy -- The Contentious World of Thomas Cornell -- Doubting Thomas: Or, Considering the Alternatives -- A Community Renders a Verdict -- Life after Death -- Notes -- Index.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-226) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 236 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801440025 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Portsmouth (R.I.) History 17th century.".
- catalog spatial "Rhode Island Portsmouth".
- catalog subject "364.15/23/097456 21".
- catalog subject "Cornell, Rebecca, -1673.".
- catalog subject "Cornell, Rebecca, 1600-1673.".
- catalog subject "Cornell, Thomas, 1627?-1673.".
- catalog subject "HV6534.P68 C73 2002".
- catalog subject "Homicide Rhode Island Portsmouth History 17th century Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Trials (Murder) Rhode Island Portsmouth History 17th century Case studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Death in the Family -- The Background of a Tragedy -- The Contentious World of Thomas Cornell -- Doubting Thomas: Or, Considering the Alternatives -- A Community Renders a Verdict -- Life after Death -- Notes -- Index.".
- catalog title "Killed strangely : the death of Rebecca Cornell / Elaine Forman Crane.".
- catalog type "text".