1731, John Taperell,A New Miscellany: Containing the Art of Conversation, and Several Other Subjects[1],page 6:
They fructify a barren, and render barren a very luxurious Soil; and, if you will believe them, they’ll tell you the Tree whereonJudashung himſelf, and more than the Natives know themſelves, or ever ſaw in their own Country.
1795, Hugh Brackenridge, chapter VIII, inIncidents of the Insurrection in the Weſtern Parts of Pennſylvania In the Year 1794[2], volume I, Philadelphia: John M‘Culloch,page55:
I am purſuaded, that if even Bradford himſelf, that day, had ventured to check the violence of the people, in any way that was not agreeable to them ; and had betrayed the leaſt partiality for the exciſe law ; or perhaps even a remiſſion of his zeal againſt it, he would have ſunk, in an inſtant, from his power, and they would havehung him on the firſt tree.
