Patience Boston, Life and Execution in York, Maine

Join Hannah Peterson and Danny Bottino as they discuss the life and death by hanging of Patience Boston, a Native indentured servant. Her execution took place in York Maine in 1735. Samuel Moody and his son Joseph Moody were at the forefront of her death. In 1738, they published a narrative detailing her life, crime, conversion and execution. Their paper, “ ‘I hope I have a Treasure in Heaven, because my Heart is there:’ Salvation and Damnation in the Conversion Narrative of Patience Boston,” will be published in the Summer 2023 issue of Early American Studies.