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As with WEB data, the Espy papers and his cited resources are used first. The resources below are additional sources of interest that visitors of the website might find of interest. For a list of all resources, see WEB.

June (Jane?) Champion The first woman to be executed in what would be become the United States in 1632

• See A Manual for the Publick Gaol by Collier C. Harris as part of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library Research Report Series - 1628 at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, page 43

Alse Young was the first woman to be executed for witchcraft in Connecticut and perhaps in New England overall (1647)

• Hall, David. Witch-hunting in Seventeenth Century New England: A documentary history 1638-1693 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991)

Mary Barnes and Elizabeth Greensmith were the last to be executed for witchcraft in Connecticut 

Alice Bishop, in 1648, was the first and only woman to be hanged in Plymouth Colony, MA

Margaret Jones was the first woman to be executed for witchcraft in MA in 1648

• Winthrop, John. History of New England from 1630-1649. Little Brown & Company, 1853

• Hale, John. Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft. B. Green, and J. Allen, 1702 

Catherine Bevan was (supposedly) the last public execution by burning in 1731 

• Walker, S. (1998). Popular Justice: A History of American Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press

Eve (owner Peter Montague) was actually the last burning by execution in 1746 

• (Va. Mag., III, pp. 309-310)

Sarah Bramble was the only white person to be executed in what was New London in 1753 (for neonaticide of an "illegitimate" child).

Bathsheba Spooner was the first woman executed in American colonies by colonial citizens (rather than the British) in 1778. She was also the first woman of the highest social status to be executed. According to Ann Jones (2009) book, her execution might have ended the practice of treating all infanticides as "worse than murder."

• Paige Robinson, L. (1883). History of Hardwick, Massachusetts: With a Genealogical Register Houghton, Mifflin, p. 757

Rachel Wall, in 1789, was the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts. 

Susanna Cox, in 1809, was the last woman to be publicly hanged in Massachusetts due to  overall public empathy for her plight.

"Unnamed" though the first person to be hanged in Christian County in 1812 was a young black girl, potentially innocent, of neonaticide, she is unnamed. 

Catherine Cashier, along with James Johnson, were the last New York public executions in May 7, 1829

Mary Andrews was the first and maybe ONLY *white* woman to be executed in Missouri in 1834

• Young, W. (1910). Young’s history of Lafayette County, Missouri (Vol. 1). B.F. Bowen. This edition was digitized by the Missouri State Library and is available through the Missouri Digital Heritage Collection

Jane (owner Elkins), a slave, becomes the first woman to be legally executed in the State of Texas where she was hanged on Friday, May 27, 1853 next to the Dallas county court house. 

• Sources: State of Texas vs. Jane, a Slave, Case #188; Terry Baker. Hangings and Lynchings in Dallas County, Texas: 1853 to 1920 (Fort Worth, Texas: Eakin Press, 2016): 1; See also the Human Rights Dallas: https://www.humanrightsdallasmaps.com/files/show/6 

Chipita Rodriguez was the last woman (and first Hispanic woman) to be legally hanged in Texas and the last until 1998

Lena Miller was, in 1867, the first (known) woman to commit murder in the county of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, the first to be convicted of murder in the county, and the first person to hang in the county. Reportedly she went to her death "calmly and smoking a cigarette" see: https://paoddities.blogspot.com/2020/01/lena-miller-pioneer-murderess-of.html 

Susan Eberhard, last white woman to be executed in the state of Georgia in April 11, 1873 until 2015 with Kelly Gissendaner (note, black women were, however, executed) 

Silena Gilmore in 1930 was the first (black) woman electrocuted in Alabama in 1930. (Earle Dennison (Crime does not pay) was the first white woman electrocuted in Alabama in 1953--a fact that tends to receive more attention)

Anna Marie Hahn, first woman in Ohio to die in the electric chair in 1937

Toni Jo Henry-only woman to be executed in Louisiana's electric chair in 1942

Rhoda Bell Martin was the last pre-Furman execution in Alabama in 1957 (electrocuted) 

Karla Faye Tucker was the first woman executed in Texas (1998) since the Civil War Karla Faye Tucker: From Pickaxe Killer to Death Row Conversion in Texas | Texas Happens 

Lisa Montgomery was in 2008 the first woman executed in Indiana

Amber McLaughlin was the first openly/known transgender woman executed in the United States Missouri Set to Execute Amber McLaughlin on January 3 in First U.S. Execution of a Transgender Person | Death Penalty Information Center