Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts
1st October 1753
Execution on Monday the 1st Instant
; and Execution on
Mary Rimer< no role >
was ordered by the same Warrant to be
respited, till His Majesty's Pleasure touching her should be further made known
.
1.
Hannah Wilson< no role >
, Widow
, was indicted, for that she,
on the King's Highway, on
Elizabeth Toffey< no role >
, Spinster
, did make an Assault, putting her in corporal Fear, and Danger of her Life, 1 Camblet Skirt of a Coat, Val. 12 d. and three Quarters of a Yard of Ribband Val. 6 d. the Goods of the said Elizabeth, did steal, &c. August 21
.
2, 3.
John Harriss< no role >
, and
Philip Wilson< no role >
, were indicted, for that they,
on the 25th of July
, about the Hour of Twelve in the Night, the Dwelling-House of
James Holmes< no role >
, did break and enter, and steal out thence, 1 Blanket, Val. 12 d. the Property of the said James, 23 Pounds Weight of Sugar, and 1 Tin Cannister, 1 Hat, Val. 2 s. 1 Pint of Rum, and 1 Glass Bottle, the Goods of
Nicholas Peterson< no role >
.
4.
Edward Johnson< no role >
, was indicted, for that He,
together with
John Wood< no role >
, not yet taken, on the 5th of September
, about the Hour of Two in the Night of the same Day, the Dwelling-House of
Lydia Cole< no role >
, Widow
, did break, and enter, with Intent, the Goods of the said Lydia to steal, and taking 3 Silver Spoons, Val. 3 s. 1 Copper Tea-kettle, Val. 5 s. 1 Copper Sauce-pan, Val. 3 s. the Property of the said Lydia
.
1.
Hannah Wilson< no role >
said she was about 25 Years of Age, and was born in the Parish of
St. Olave
, in the Borough of Southwark
. Her Parents brought her up tolerably well, and she might have done very well, had it pleased God they had lived to have brought her up, till fit to take care of herself; for, says she, they lived in some Credit and Reputation in their Neighbourhood. She was at School first in the Minories
, and afterwards at several other Schools, so that she could read very well, and pretended she could work at her Needle very well as to Plain-work, which might have been of great Use to her, if she had been properly introduced into Life. But her Father and Mother dying soon after one another (when she was only about 11 or 12 Years of Age) she was left to the Care of a Grandmother. This new Guardian of her's soon after took it into her Head to marry, and the Girl growing up