Hannah Ocuish (sometimes "Occuish";4 March 1774 – December 20, 1786) was a 12-year old Pequot Native American girl.


with an intellectual disability who was hanged on December 20, 1786, in New London, 


Connecticut for the murder of Eunice Bolles, the 6-year old daughter of a wealthy farmer.


She is believed to be the youngest person executed in the United States.In recent years,

Ocuish's guilt, culpability, and the fairness of her trial have come
Ledyard, Connecticut, U.S.


(Plot unknown)Known forYoungest person executed in United States history Criminal.

statusExecutedConviction(s)First-degree murde rCriminal penaltyDeathDetailsVictimsEunice Bolles, aged 6DateJuly 21, 1786


Early life.📌

Henry Channing, a minister, published a sermon entitled God Admonishing His People of their Duty ... a Sermon ... Occasioned by the Execution of Hannah Ocuish,

a Mixed Girl, Aged 12 Years and 9 Months, for the Murder of Eunice Bolles, Aged 6 Years and 6 Months.

It describes the negative light in which her early life was presented to the court, referring to her Native American mother as an "abandoned creature", and characterizing Ocuish as a fearsome violent criminal who at the age of 6 nearly killed another victim during a robbery of a gold necklace and clothing:

AS the Public may wish to be informed more particularly respecting the criminal, 

Hannah Ocuish, than they have yet been: we have collected the following particulars,

which it may not be improper to annex as an appendix to the preceding discourse.

She was born at Groton.—Early in life she discovered the maliciousness and cruelty of her disposition: as appears from the following fact,

which was represented in evidence before the grand-jury. When about six years old, she with a brother about two years older than herself,

meeting a little girl at a distance from...