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Lavinia Fisher (c. 1793 – February 18, 1820) was an American criminal who, according to urban legends, was the first female serial killer in the United States of America. [1] She was married to John Fisher, and both were convicted of highway robbery —a capital offense at the time—not murder .
John and Lavinia Fisher, and other members of their gang, convicted of highway robbery in the Charleston Neck region were imprisoned here in 1819 to 1820. [3] Some of the last 19th-century high-seas pirates were jailed here in 1822 while they awaited hanging. [3] The Jail was active after the discovery of Denmark Vesey's planned slave revolt. [3]
— Fisher Ames, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (4 July 1808) "No, whatever is, is best." [7]: 98 — Theophilus Lindsey, English Unitarian theologian and clergyman (3 November 1808), to a friend who suggested that Lindsey was strengthened by the saying, "Whatever is, is right"
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On his return to Scotland, Neilson published Six Years' Residence in America, 1828. [1] It includes his visits to New York City in the 1822 outbreak of yellow fever, [2] [3] and to Harlem, [4] and details, now considered exaggerated, of the Lavinia Fisher murders in Charleston, where he claimed to have been in 1820. [5]