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The first murder ever (3) in the United States occurred in September 1630, shortly after the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts. John Billington was the father of two sons, (4) the first to settle in the new Plymouth Colony near what is today Boston, and one of the people who signed the Mayflower Compact and he was also the colony's first murderer. Billington, in fact, was the first person to commit any (5) in the colony, as far as we know today. He was also the first to be executed by the state in the New World. Billington's crime was to (6) a man named John Newcomen, for reasons which are lost to history. But Billington's problems had not begun on the soil of North America. He and his sons had nearly caused a mutiny aboard the Mayflower (7) the arduous trip across the ocean. One of his sons, in fact, (8) his gun aboard the Mayflower near an open keg of gunpowder! The flash from the gun could easily have ignited the powder, which would (9) have sunk the ship. Once in Plymouth Colony, Billington's behavior did not improve. He (10) to serve any form of military duty under the leadership of Miles Standish, a duty that was seen by the colonists as part of every man's responsibilities in the New World. He was later guilty in a plot to overthrow the entire leadership of Plymouth Colony, (11) a lack of evidence prompted the town's leaders to let him go free. In the end, Billington's rebellious and angry nature caught up with him. He was found (12) of the murder of John Newcomen, and died in disgrace on the gallows.

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