Boy Executed for Buggery ..... So Now You Know!

    

 Strange as it may sound, in 1642 the Pilgrim Colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts, Was struck by a crime wave. William Bradford, governor of the colony, described in his history of Plymouth one of the worst crimes:
     "Ther was a youth whose named was Thoma Granger; he was servant to an honest man of Duxbery, being aboute 16. of 17. years of age. He was this year detected of buggery (and indicted for the same) with a mare, a cowe, tow goats, five sheep 2. calves and a turkey, Horrible it is to mention but the truth of the historie requires it. He was first discovered by one that accidentally saw his lewd practise towards the mare. (I forbear perticulers.) Being upon it examined and committed, in the end he not only confest the fact with the beast at that time, but sundrie times before, and at severall times with all the rest of the forenamed in his indictmente..... And accordingly he was cast by a jury, and condemned, and after executed the 8. of September, 1642. A very sade spectakle it ws; for first the mare, and then the cowe and the rest of the lesser catle, were kild before his face, according to the law, Levit:20:15, and then he him selfe was executed"

So Now You Know..........!