OCCASIONED By the EXECUTION of Hannah Ocuish, a Mulatto Girl, Aged 12 Years and 9 Months. The sermon was preached by Henry Channing as he spoke for 'God admonishing his people of their duty as parents ...

Today, the crimes of Hannah Ocuish would be readily explained, if not outright forgiven. Her childhood incorporated all the clichés and every demographic of the youthful offender: poverty ...

Known around her community as the “fierce young savage,” 12- year-old Hannah Ocuish was hanged behind New London’s old meeting house on Dec. 20, 1786. A fight over some strawberries that ...