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Ep. 41-Revolutionary Justice: The Haunting Tale of Bathsheba Spooner
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Long before modern true crime captivated audiences, there was the haunting tale of Bathsheba Spooner – a fascinating study in how revolution, politics, and gender collided in early American justice. As the Revolutionary War drew to a close, this Massachusetts woman orchestrated one of the new nation's most shocking murders, becoming the first female executed after America gained independence.
Born to privilege as the daughter of prominent loyalist Timothy Ruggles – Harvard graduate, Brigadier General, and former Speaker of the Massachusetts House – Bathsheba found herself trapped in an arranged marriage to Joshua Spooner, a man who reportedly inspired her "utter aversion." While her father fled to Nova Scotia as revolutionary fervor grew, she remained behind, increasingly isolated in a community that shunned her for her father's politics.
The arrival of Ezra Ross, a handsome 16-year-old Continental Army soldier, changed everything. Their forbidden affair led to pregnancy, creating a desperate situation in an era when adultery brought severe social and physical punishment. Her solution? Convince Ross and two British deserters to murder her husband for the princely sum of one thousand dollars. After beating Joshua Spooner to death and dumping his body down a well, the conspirators were captured within 24 hours, still wearing the dead man's clothes.
What followed was a trial steeped in the political tensions of its time. Despite her lawyer's attempts to argue insanity, the court – presided over by patriot judges – found all four guilty. Bathsheba's pleas to delay her execution until her child could be born went unheeded, and both she and her unborn son died on the gallows on July 2, 1778.
Modern analysts suggest Bathsheba might have been acquitted on grounds of mental instability had her case not been colored by anti-loyalist sentiment. Her story raises profound questions about political influence in justice, women's limited options in colonial America, and the sometimes deadly consequences of arranged marriages.
Dive into this riveting historical case that combines forbidden romance, political intrigue, and a murder that still fascinates almost 250 years later. Share your thoughts or suggest cases from your own hometown by messaging us on social media or emailing steeped@holdmysweettea.com.
Source material:
New England Historical Society, https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/bathsheba-spooner-hanged-murder-or-loyalist-father/
Mass Moments, https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/brookfield-woman-put-to-death.html
Harvard https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:4198612$4i
Historical Ipswich https://historicipswich.net/2021/06/19/the-hanging-of-bathsheba-spooner-july-2-1778/
Barnacle, Sarah, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, march 9, 2025, Worcester County Wonders: The tale of Bathsheba Spooner, the first woman executed in the US, https://www.telegram.com/story/lifestyle/columns/2025/03/09/worcester-county-wonders-the-first-woman-executed-in-the-us/80494770007/
Green, Samuel Swett, publication date April 1889 The Case of Bathsheba Spooner, American Antiquarian of Massachusetts, 2025, https://www.america
Hometown True Crime Week
Speaker 1Continuing our hometown true crime week, we are headed today to Massachusetts, birthplace of moi. We're going to go back to just after the Revolutionary War. This is Hold my Sweet Tea, sweet tea, welcome back. And if you've never listened before, welcome back anyway. You probably listened in another life. I'm Pearl.
Speaker 2And I'm Holly and you just like bumped the desk and it made me giggle. I was like oops. So welcome back to our week of hometown true crime. Little, I say series, but it's you know two episodes. I just had mine on Monday with Gary Jean Grant, the forgotten serial killer in Renton Washington, the Seattle area.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's crazy, I know, like the totally unreportedness of that, like that's not even a word.
Speaker 2It was literally forgotten and you know the guy's still sitting in jail and I'm just saying let's get um.
Speaker 1The guy who played jeffrey dummer oh god, why are you gonna put me on the spot like that? We're both gonna sit here and go.
Speaker 2I see his face so let's get evan peters on that. Yeah, there we go, let face, so let's get Evan Peters on that.
Speaker 1Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 2Let's do a documentary. Do it. He played Dahmer so well he's probably on vacation right now, right. Do it anyway Do it anyway.
Speaker 1Oh my goodness. Yeah, so it's been fun like being able to research something non-southy, yeah, but so maybe we should do this every once in a blue moony.
Speaker 2Yeah, absolutely that would be cool to just or somebody could actually communicate with us and say like hey, there's some good stuff going on in the state I'm from. Could you cover something?
Speaker 1there. Yeah, then we'll throw it out there and be like this is the hometown of your name, not your full name obviously Whatever you want us to do or whatever you want us to call you. And this is the case we're doing from their city. So yeah, that would be fun yeah.
Bathsheba Spooner: First Post-Revolution Execution
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Speaker 2Really, yeah, I need to check on her. So where are we traveling to today?
Speaker 1So we're going to be doing a case out of Worcester, which my aunt and my dad, all being from the same place, say Worcester, worcester. There's no R's in their vocabulary.
Speaker 2No, you don't get in a car. You get in a car, Exactly.
Speaker 1So, yeah, massachusetts, where I was born, but don't remember much about yeah, I know a little more about Boston than I do, the city I was actually born in, only because I had to go there for a work function. Yes, yes, but we're actually going back in time to right after the war, kind of during and after the Revolutionary War, like right at the end.
Speaker 2Should I do the Wayne's World thing? Yeah?
Speaker 1We're going to be talking about the first woman executed after the us became the us.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, her name batsheba spooner that's it, that that name just sends terror like it does because of the conjuring right.
Speaker 1Not the same woman, just in case you're wondering. But uh yeah, it's a old hebrew biblical name and, like tons of women, had that name it was like mary back then you know, oh wow, so it was everywhere and women with that name would name their daughters that. Pass it down right Like junior on the girl's side. I don't know, it was so weird. I was like I can't imagine like me being named Pearl and naming my daughter Pearl and somebody being like Pearl and we both huh, huh, what.
Speaker 2I think, generational name.
Speaker 1Yeah, so I think it's just a. It's a little bit weird to do that, but I guess it was very commonplace back then. Yes, so Bathsheba was born February 13th 1745. And she was actually born in Newcomb Tavern, like the building, a tavern building. Her father, timothy Ruggles, had married the widow Newcomb, thereby trading in his status as a tavern guest for that of tavern landlord. Oh wow, way to get in there, buddy. Right, they would actually have six kids together. That's the other thing. That's like a back in the day kind of stuff Huge families, tons of babies.
Speaker 2They didn't have nothing better to do, right.
Speaker 1This tavern would become a huge hangout for those who were loyalist in nature. So those still loyal to the crown would hang out there. So those still loyal to the crown would hang out there. Its patrons and the patriots that lived in town often would butt heads. So everybody kind of knew where Timothy Ruggles stood as far as this Revolutionary War was going which side?
Speaker 1of the fence he was on. Ruggles had moved his family from the tavern to a farm in Hardwick, massachusetts. There he became the chief judge of the Common Pleas Court in Worcester. He was admired by young John Adams for a bit. Adams was studying law in Worcester and even wrote of Ruggles. He said his honor is strict. People approached him with the dread and terror. So he was one of those tough judges.
Speaker 2Yeah, I like that though, yeah.
Speaker 1Like, you ain't getting nothing, Right? Don't come in my court.
Speaker 2Because you're going to jail. I often want to, like you know, terrify people just by my presence right like be afraid, be very, very very afraid ruggles was not only known for his large personality, he had a very commanding physical presence as well.
Timothy Ruggles: Respected Loyalist Father
Speaker 1Standing six feet tall, was six foot tall like uncommon back then probably I mean with all the french and everything they were a lot shorter and he, he was I mean we do live in louisiana, land of the short man.
Speaker 2Exactly.
Speaker 1Exactly. He had graduated from Harvard and practiced law while he rose to the title of Brigadier General in the French and Indian War. He would also win several elections and serve in the Massachusetts House of Representatives several elections and serve in the massachusetts house of representatives. He even served as speaker of the house from 1762 until 1764. So crazy that he's done all of this and is still a loyalist.
Speaker 1Yeah like he did a lot yeah, so because of his status as a loyalist and the fact that obviously he is a leader by nature, he then becomes the Loyalist American Association and vowed to enforce obedience to the king. Oh, wow, yeah. So he basically ends up getting run out of town. I can see why. Yeah, of course he is going to flee to Canada, nova Scotia, to be more exact. But before fleeing to Canada, ruggles would marry off his favorite daughter.
Speaker 2Bathsheba. Oh, he's like here. I'm going to marry you off to somebody, yep.
Speaker 1So he chooses Joshua Spooner because his family is a owner of a rather large farm in Brookfield, Massachusetts. So this was an effort to cement her social position and allow her to remain in New England. And he knew that Spooner could provide her with an elegant home and fine clothing, because that was important.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's the most important thing. You must have an elegant home and fine clothing. And here's all this clothes Reminds me a little of Bridgerton.
Speaker 1Yes, Go, marry Spooner.
Speaker 2Yes, let's get your suitors lined up here, yeah.
Speaker 1No big party. Unfortunately, no lady whistle down. No lady whistle down, damn it. The marriage would not be one of love, obviously, since daddy arranged this Right Marriage.
Speaker 2Marriage, obviously, since daddy arranged this Mowage.
Speaker 1Mowage Bathsheba was pretty and intelligent, but her passions had never been properly restrained so she like literally had no other relationship than straight into this husband. Right, you're like, here you go. It would actually come out during the trial.
Speaker 2Dun dun, here you go.
Speaker 1It would actually come out during the trial that Bathsheba was in, that many saw Bathsheba's husband, joshua, as weak and easily intimidated, stating that it's a big importance that the head of the family be a strong one in order to have a good marriage, like he needs to be manly Right, so she pretty much wore the pants in that relationship, yeah. Then there were others who actually stated that he was an abusive drunk who would lay with servants if his wife rejected his touch. I mean Typical white man shit right there.
Speaker 1That's what I was going to say. Anyway, sorry about that, guys. Despite this whole situation, they had four kids together and she would actually even tell other people that she had an utter aversion to her husband, like, she had the ick Ew.
Speaker 2she was like ugh.
Speaker 1She totally had the ick. The more patriotic neighbors actually shunned Bathsheba due to the views of her father. So they all knew he was a big loyalist to the views of her father. So they all knew he was a big loyalist and they were just assuming that she too was a traitor who shared his beliefs because, I mean, she loves her dad right, and she's a woman, so she can't have her own opinion, right, she?
Speaker 2why would that?
Speaker 1happen back then. So once her father had actually moved on to nova scot she was isolated with a husband she hated and most felt that her whole situation drove her quite mad, so people were pretty sure she was cray-cray yeah.
Speaker 2All day, all day, cray-cray.
A Loveless Marriage Arranged
Speaker 1So one fine day in March of 1777,. So one fine day in March of 1777, ezra Ross, a 16-year-old boy 16? Exactly, he was also a Continental Army soldier Passed through on his way to Ipswich, massachusetts, ipswich, ipswich, massachusetts, ipswich, ipswich. Bathsheba found him to be a handsome lad.
Speaker 2Lad, not man Lad.
Speaker 1And he had actually fallen ill while he was in Brookfield, so Bathsheba took him in, nursed him back to health and bedded him apparently, oh, apparently, he didn't give her the ick, even though he was underage.
Speaker 2So he continues home after this encounter.
Speaker 1And you know the call to the fight would soon bring him back through.
Speaker 2Brookfield in August. I'm sure it was the call to the fight, huh.
Speaker 1He would support the Patriots and then, after the victory at Saratoga, return to the Spooner home, support Bathsheba. Yeah, go do some other kind of supporting. I'm sick again.
Speaker 2Help me, help me.
Speaker 1So, of course, the two engage in an affair, and not long after that, Bathsheba would learn that she had become pregnant.
Speaker 2Uh-oh.
Speaker 1Obviously assuming this is Ezra's child, because her husband makes her barf.
Speaker 1But obviously there's nothing to prove it back then. It's not like they could do DNA and find out who's the daddy. There's no Maury show Maury, maury, maury. So obviously like she could play it off like, yeah, I got pregnant from my husband, but most people would probably figure, no, you didn't yeah. So while batsheba left no record of her feelings, no diary, no journal, nothing to know for sure what she was thinking, she must have been panicked. There would be no doubt that Spooner would humiliate her for the affair Courts would back him up by publicly stripping and flogging her, and her loyalist sympathies would be brought to light by the locals who knew her father Right. So it was also likely that she had heard the stories of loyalist women who had been shamed and even tarred and feathered for less serious offenses than adultery.
Speaker 2That's insane to tar and feather somebody Right.
Speaker 1So of course this sparks a plan. She needed a way to get rid of her dreadful husband. She tried to convince Ezra to poison her husband by giving him a vial of nitric acid to pour into his drink, because you know he's a heavy drinker Right. Unfortunately, ezra could not go through with it, ran off to his family home in Ipswich because he's scared now.
Speaker 2Yeah, he's like no, thank you.
Speaker 1However, this plan that she had she would not let go of.
Speaker 2She was going to find a way. She was damn determined.
Speaker 1She was like he's going to die. So in February of 1778, two British deserters came into Brooksfield Sergeant James Buchanan and Private William Brooks. They were only two of the many British soldiers Soldiers why did I say soldiers, soldiers.
Speaker 1It's like Folgers coffee Soldiers that left the army during the trek from Saratoga to Boston. Once in Boston, the others would leave back to Boston. Once in Boston, the others would leave back to Britain. So Bathsheba's husband was away on business. So she decided to befriend the deserters, welcome them into her home, fed them and gave them a place to rest, and, in her desperation to get rid of her husband before he discovers that she's pregnant, she offers these men a thousand dollars to take out her hubby. That was a lot of money back then.
Speaker 2Yeah, that was a lot of money. She's like I got a thousand dollars. Would you do it so of like I got a thousand dollars? Yeah, would you do it.
Speaker 1So of course their interests are piqued and eventually they do agree to take on this task. Of course, once Joshua returned home he threw the deserters out.
Speaker 1So they were still there, but Bathsheba gave them shelter in the barn on their property in spite of her husband telling them to leave the property completely, she continues to bring them food and take care of them. And then, finally, on March 1st 1778, finally, on March 1st 1778, ezra Ross returns, oh, and he's ready to help the deserters kill Joshua Spooner. And now we have a throuple. Yeah, so that very night of his arrival, joshua would return home after drinks at Cooley.
Speaker 2Tavern which he was frequented very often.
Speaker 1William Brooks attacked him and was aided by Buchanan and Ross. The three beat Joshua Spooner to death and then dumped his limp body down a well Dang and then dumped his limp body down a well Dang.
Speaker 1If anyone were to happen upon Spooner's dead body, bathsheba had planned to say. Spooner got up in the middle of the night and, in his drunken stupor, fell into the well, unfortunately for Bathsheba. Unfortunately for Bathsheba, the three she picked to carry out this deed were not exactly criminal masterminds. Oh goodness, the murder would be discovered and the men would actually be apprehended within 24 hours. Oh they, dum-dum, they dum-dum. 24 hours. They left evidence everywhere. Ugh, so that made it easy to find the crime had occurred, as well as discern all the details of what happened to Spooner.
Speaker 2Yeah, so they like ratted her out too. Oh yeah, they did.
Speaker 1Oh, His battered hat, blood and footprints in the snow would leave a horrifying testimony to the beating he had taken. And it left a big nasty trail straight to the well. Straight to the well.
Speaker 2Like where's the body? I don't know. Follow the blood trail. Yeah.
Speaker 1Like no cleanup of this crime scene at all.
The Murder Plot Begins
Speaker 1They were like we're done, yeah, let's go they're done, and then those three little clumsy murders fled to Worcester. They would be apprehended there the very next day. Bathsheba had given the men some of Joshua's clothes, so they're literally arrested in his clothes with the money she gave them. The men would eventually confess and implicate Bathsheba, but she held fast to her claims of innocence, of course. Of course she did so in April of 1778, april 27th to be exact. The trial would begin at the Old South Meeting House in Worcester. William Cushing presided, as well as John Sullivan and David Seawall. You need three judges.
Speaker 2Apparently. She needed three men to kill her husband, apparently Exactly.
Speaker 1So they need three men to judge them. Each of these guys was a patriot, and I say that just to note that there's no way she's getting a fair.
Speaker 2Not at all here.
Speaker 1Yeah, because she's known for her family being loyal.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1So Robert Treat Payne, who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, would actually be the lead of the prosecution on the Commonwealth's behalf. Levi Lincoln, a relative of our 16th president, would use the insanity defense for his client Bathsheba. The grounds for his defense were many cool-headed contemporaries of Mrs Spooner believed that she was beside herself when she committed the act for which she is tried. I love how they don't use the word insane or crazy Right.
Speaker 2She was beside herself, she was beside herself, she had an attack of the vapors and her husband gave her the ick.
Speaker 1Yeah, she was grossed out her entire marriage. She's like I can't take this anymore. She couldn't run to her daddy right for comfort, so she had no friends because everybody hated her daddy so thereby hated her, you know. So she was alone all the way she was beside beside herself. So the only friend she had was the one that herself that was beside herself, Right right. Lincoln himself had actually felt that she was insane. He also pleaded with the jurors to leave all political feeling aside when making their decision.
Speaker 1We they're not good, no, they're not especially back then, massachusetts was going through a period of transition. In 1778 the new state had just shed its british rule but there was like no adopted constitution, so it left the town officials fearful of lawlessness. So of course they're gonna. They got to make an example out of everybody. So that great need to establish and maintain some semblance of order really affected this case. It was actually the very first capital case to come to trial post-revolution. Oh cool. To come to trial post-revolution, oh cool. So they go through the whole entire trial and after 16 hours of deliberation, Wow. All four participants in Spooner's unaliving were found guilty, All of them Guilty. They were all sentenced to execution by hanging, with an execution date of June 4th. However, in late May Bathsheba petitioned the court and basically downright begged to delay her execution so that her child could be born.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, because she was pregnant.
Speaker 2Because she's preggers yeah.
Speaker 1Cushing moved the date to July 2nd and then he required examinations to be done to ensure that she was indeed in a thriving pregnancy. The court selected midwives who examined her and said that she wasn't even pregnant. What, yeah? Then her brother-in-law and the reverend at the church that they went to also tried to protest her execution, and her brother-in-law was actually a doctor. So he also petitions some midwives and gets another examination done and they all say she is pregnant. Yeah, they even had some of the midwives from the first thing change their mind, which I feel like they were just going with whatever Going with whatever they said.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Because they were like just examine her and say no Political stuff and everything else. He said she was indeed with child. So did those other ladies, like I said, but the hanging still commenced. On July 2nd oh wow, because Cushing don't care. Noose on neck, bathsheba took the hand of the sheriff and made her final statement my dear sir, I am ready. In a little time I expect to be in bliss, and but a few years may pass Then I hope I shall see you and my other friends. It's almost like a see you in hell right, very ominous like message yeah, because none of them were her friends.
The Clumsy Murder and Swift Arrest
Speaker 1Right a post-mortem exam, which I mean, her sister, Mary, took possession of her body. Mm-hmm, Mary is the one married to Dr Green who had done the second examination. So they did perform a post-mortem exam and what would it reveal but a fully formed, perfect, five-month-old male fetus.
Speaker 2Wow, so she wasn't showing at all then? No, she was still rather small. Yeah. So there wasn't like a big yeah, because some women don't show that much until like right at the end. Yeah, they get.
Speaker 1Yeah, so yeah no.
Speaker 2So she definitely was pregnant.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh, that's horrible, so they hung her, killing her and her baby. Fantastic, yeah, her father would actually live to be 82 and he would pass away in nova scotia. Um, like I said before, batsheba was the first woman to be executed in the new American Republic. She was actually 32 at the time of her death.
Speaker 2Oh, so she was still fairly young.
Speaker 1Yeah, joshua Spooner is buried in the old section of the Brookfield Cemetery. You can see his headstone there. I got some of the pictures. There is a marker on the well that he was thrown into. It says it's called Spooner. Well now.
Speaker 2Oh, wow.
Speaker 1And it says on that headstone Joshua Spooner, murdered and thrown down this well March 1st 1778 by three revolutionary soldiers at the urging of his wife Bathsheba, because he was icky. All four were executed at Worcester July 2nd 1778. This well marker is actually surrounded by poison ivy, like all the time. Oh, it keeps getting cut away and it keeps coming back.
Speaker 2It keeps coming back.
Speaker 1So that's Bathsheba Right, and the funniest thing is is they say that while that grave's covered in, or that spot's covered in poison ivy the actual grave of Spooner there are people who say it doesn't even grow grass. Whether that's true or not don't know, but you know that's the whole story on his grave. But Ezra Ross is buried in an unmarked grave at Leslie Road Cemetery near the Ipswich-Rowley line. The church records for his burial literally say Ezra Ross' birth date 1762. Death date July 2nd 1778. That's all it says.
Speaker 2That's it, nothing else. That's it.
Speaker 1Of course, bathsheba. Like I said, her sister claimed her body, and so she's buried in an unmarked grave as well, on the Green Estate, which is now known as Green Hill Park in Worcester Mass. Obviously, the property was owned by Dr Green, mary Ruggles green.
Speaker 2Mary ruggles green yeah, there you go sister.
Speaker 1In a publication by samuel sweat green, a distant relative of dr green. He contends that, based on the reading of the trial and minute-by-minute explanation of the actions of Bathsheba before and after the murder, that she would have been acquitted based on insanity had this trial not taken place when it did and where it did as it was influenced by her ties to her loyalist father and where it did as it was influenced by her ties to her loyalist father.
Trial, Execution, and Her Unborn Child
Speaker 1In reading his publication, it appears that bouts of eccentricity and insanity run in the family and that the hate for her father hindered the impartiality of the court. Funny thing is it's like every explanation. Why can't I say explanation today? Gosh of the crazy that ran in her family was always the women yeah, the women, of course. And then it's like back to like his loyalistness and yeah, yeah, she crazy, and so were all the other women in that family.
Speaker 2And I think she was probably bitter because she got married to this guy that she didn't want to be with, yeah, and her dad moved away and she was alone. Yeah, I mean, she had her kids.
Speaker 1But I have to wonder, did she have like, because they don't really talk about them, right? I'm like wondering if she had like some indifference with them, just because I mean, yeah, the dad I don't know. I know that one of her kids, I think, had passed away as a child, so they didn't have like all of them around, yeah, but it's crazy stuff.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's a crazy story.
Speaker 1There's some old, old ass true crime for you Killed her husband, whacked him. Yeah, she did. Well, she didn't.
Speaker 2The other dudes did Her thruffle did.
Speaker 1Paid for her husband to get whacked Right.
Speaker 2And the thing is is like you got three men willing to kill your husband one of them who's pining over you, I'm sure, because he came back and then the other two were getting paid. Yeah, the underage one, right, you pedophile Bathsheba, but then back then. What did age have to do with anything, right?
Speaker 170-year-old men with 12-year-olds Exactly Gross. Yeah, yeah, the days of yester In Wester, in Wester Wester.
Speaker 2Is that where Worcestershire sauce comes?
Speaker 1from. I think that's the shires of Worcester in England, in England, okay, okay, sister cities. You're right, wash your sister sauce.
Speaker 2Wash your sister sauce. See, that's what I get. Sister city, sister city, oh goodness, tasty sauce.
Speaker 1So yeah, obviously a real true crime, but still you know something a little more light.
Speaker 2Yeah, and this was fun, like doing our hometowns where we were born and everything. I like this little series.
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Speaker 2Exactly, that would be so much fun. Yeah, it would be, it would be cool, and then that's a little.
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Speaker 2Even our listeners that are not in the United States.
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