friend – Her the notion of God as being your “friend” during your last days on this earth while in confinement is a fascinating notion of the preparation continually taken by criminals to ready themselves as best they could for the afterlife. Through his mercy God becomes “friend of sinners” and offers them his hand. They must embrace him for he is singly important at this stage in the game, knowing the fate has been determined in this world.

family – The notion of family in this narrative is quite interesting. There is the murder of one’s own children either by the father or the mother, we can’t be sure of Wilson’s testimony, coupled with the notion of illegimate children that cannot be part of a true family being born in sin. There is also the case of the brother who is said to have visited Elizabeth while she was incarcerated and even obtained a letter that was to delay her execution. He being delayed himself along the way back to her execution, arrived 23 minutes after she had been “turned off”. He even was said to have taken her home where he tried to revive her somehow and seeing that she was “irrecovably gone”, “she was decently enterred”.

escape- In The Bloody Register the notion of escaping punishment by either running away becomes  commonplace.  The criminal stories relayed give much attention to the criminals ability to wiggle out of trouble somehow.  Their were frequent escapes from jail and numerous desertions of agreed upon lengths of serviceupon a ship or for military endeavors.  The criminals out the time much like todays seem to be willing to do anything and everything within their power to avoid what they are well aware will be the fate of their continued defiances of the law.

women- In relation of the pirate Alexander white’s tale we are exposed to sudden and dastardly change of his actions.  He proclaims his past to be one in which he served his full terms of apprenticeship and occupattions.  But after becoming a well   schooled mariner he set to the seas commanding his own ship and all was well and good until hedecided to marry.  This woman marks the change from a benevolent man to a man who heinously took the life of his brethren.  “…Love began to burn my poor and wounded heart; and being resolved to go through any difficulty that might impede us, I intended to take the life of my fellow-creature…” White also attributes his downfall to the fact that he had married a girl above his class which surely motivated his violent anamoly inlife.