Fuller and Warren [Laws F16]

DESCRIPTION: [Amasa] Fuller has become engaged to a woman, who however chooses to abandon him for [Paul] Warren. Fuller accuses Warren of saying that he (Fuller) was already married, and shoots him. He is sentenced to hang
AUTHOR: sometimes attributed to Moses Whitecotton
EARLIEST DATE: 1866 (Musick-JAF-TheOldAlbumOf-William-A-Larkin)
KEYWORDS: homicide trial execution
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
Jan 10, 1820 - Amasa Fuller shoots Paul (Palmer?) Warren in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Fuller was later hanged.
FOUND IN: US(MW,NE,Ro,So,SW) Canada(Mar,Newf)
REFERENCES (20 citations):
Laws F16, "Fuller and Warren"
Belden-BalladsSongsCollectedByMissourFolkloreSociety, pp. 302-307, "Fuller and Warren" (3 texts plus a fragment, 1 tune)
Randolph 143, "Fuller and Warren" (1 text plus 2 excerpts, 1 tune)
Hudson-FolksongsOfMississippi 66, pp. 191-193, "Fuller and Warren" (1 text)
Moore/Moore-BalladsAndFolkSongsOfTheSouthwest 175, "Ye Sons of Columbia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Bronner/Eskin-FolksongAlivePart1 24, "Fuller and Warren" (1 text, 1 tune)
Musick-JAF-TheOldAlbumOf-William-A-Larkin 17, "Fullers Confession" (1 text)
Brewster-BalladsAndSongsOfIndiana 100, "Fuller and Warren" (2 texts plus an excerpt and mention of 4 more)
List-SingingAboutIt-FolkSongsInSouthernIndiana, pp. 336-343, "The Indiana Hero," "Fuller and Warren" (2 texts, 2 tune)
Larkin-SingingCowboy, pp. 127-130, "Fuller and Warren" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Olney-BalladsMigrantInNewEngland, pp. 174-175, "Fuller and Warren" (1 text, 1 tune)
Burt-AmericanMurderBallads, pp. 51-52, "(no title)" (1 text plus an excerpt, 1 tune)
Hubbard-BalladsAndSongsFromUtah, #32, "Fuller and Warren" (1 text)
Finger-FrontierBallads, pp. 168-170, "Fuller and Warren" (1 text)
Friedman-Viking/PenguinBookOfFolkBallads, p. 205, "Fuller and Warren" (1 text)
Pound-AmericanBalladsAndSongs, 49, pp. 116-118, "Fuller and Warren" (1 text)
Cox-FolkSongsSouth 45, "Ye Sons of Columbia" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ives-FolksongsOfNewBrunswick, pp. 148-151, "Fuller and Warren" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen-AmericanFolkSongsARegionalEncyclopedia2, pp. 419-420, "Fuller and Warren" (1 text)
DT 704, FULLWARR
Roud #694
RECORDINGS:
Dick Stamp, "Fuller and Warren" (on MUNFLA/Leach)
Anna Underhill, "The Indiana Hero" (on FineTimes)
NOTES [119 words]: Although this song is sometimes attributed to Moses Whitecotton, Belden-BalladsSongsCollectedByMissourFolkloreSociety has information that Whitecotton wrote a *different* poem about this particular event.
The reference to the hanging of Haman on the gallows so high is an allusion to the Biblical book of Esther (especially 7:10). The story of Samson and Delilah is told in Judges 16:4-22. The references to Eve causing Adam's fall are obviously to Genesis 3.
The reference to "Genesis, Judges, Samuel, Kings, and Job" seems confused; the texts in Belden-BalladsSongsCollectedByMissourFolkloreSociety apply it to various doctrines, and I can't see how the books listed combine to teach any of the doctrines cited. - RBW
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