Welcome to Lore Legends, a subset of lore episodes that explore the strange tales we whisper in the dark,

even if they can't always be proven by the history books.

So if you're ready, let's begin. They made the ultimate sacrifice. The American colonies wanted independence from England and so they fought and died.

But some of those deaths never took place on the battlefield.

Over in Plymouth, Massachusetts, for example, one woman made some, shall we say, interesting choices during the war.

Bathsheba Spooner's father had been a British loyalist fighting against the colony's best interests,

but she wasn't like him. No, her heart was with the colonial side.

Literally. You see, she had fallen in love with the soldier in the continental army, a man

named Ezra Ross. She was the Juliet to his revolutionary Romeo.

Unfortunately, Bashiba was already married to a wealthy farmer named Joshua Spooner,

and this became a problem when she realized

that she was pregnant with her lover's child. She tried to end her marriage but not

through divorce. Instead she convinced her lover and two additional accomplices to murder her husband.

Once the deed was done, they tossed his mangled corpse down a well to hide their crime.

Their conspiracy was undone though when one of the killers got sloppy and

started showing off a pair of shoe buckles that he had pilfered from the late

Mr. Spooner. Everyone involved was arrested and put on trial.

The widow's spooner tried to delay her execution to spare the life of her unborn child,

but the doctors who examined her didn't believe that she was pregnant at all.

And so, on July 2nd of 1778, she was hanged.

An autopsy later revealed that Bathsheba was, in fact, with child, a boy, only five months

along.

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