COLONIAL PUNISHMENTS

The most common punishment in colonial towns was whipping or fines. Every town had a whipping post. Punishments might get medieval with the hand of a thief getting cut off or a hot poker being thrust through a blasphemer’s tongue. A town might also have a stock which was where you sat and had your feet locked in a board. A pillory was where you stood and had your head or head and hands locked in the board. It was common for people to throw rocks or rotten fruits and vegetables. Stocks and pillories were used for crimes like not attending church. Criminals might be branded with the letter of the crime, A for adultery for instance. A ducking stool was a chair on the end of a pole which was used to dunk women who were considered to be nags or gossips. Some towns had “Lecture Day” which was when a week’s worth of punishments were staged at the same time for entertainment purposes. Hopefully, the final act was a hanging!

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