Esther Rogers (Rodgers)

1701, July 17th. Esther Rogers of Newbury, for killing a child
Nov. 12th, 1700, is hung and placed on a gibbet at Pingrey?s Plain in
Ipswich. Tradition informs us, that she confessed this to be her
second illegitimate child, and that the first was secreted, she not
knowing whether it was dead or alive. She appeared very sorrowful for
her iniquities, and acknowledged her sentence to be righteous. She
continued in deep distress for her sins, after she set out for the
gallows; but, when passing a hill, she was divinely enabled to cast
her soul upon Christ and to enjoy the consolations of a hope in
him. This hill from that time, has been called "Comfort Hill," because
she there was comforted by the promises of religion to the penitent.


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