Servant to Love Brewster, of Duxbury, Granger, about 16 or 17, was in 1642 "detected of buggery, and indicted for the same, with a mare, a cow, two goats, five sheep, two calves and a turkey," according to Gov. William Bradford, governor of America's first permanent colony, in his diary Of Plymouth Plantation.
Granger confessed to his crimes to the magistrates of Plymouth Plantation, in court, and on the date of his execution. He was hung on or about September 8, 1642. Before Granger's execution, the animals with which he had had sex were slaughtered before his face and thrown into a large pit dug for their disposal. No use was made of any part of the animals.
Granger's crime represents America's first recorded act of bestiality.
