Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts

14th October 1772

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2nd September 1772


the court of Common-pleas; James Eyre< no role > , Esq . Recorder , and others his Majesty's justices of oyer and terminer of the city of London, and justices of goal-delivery of Newgate, holden for the said city and county of Middlesex, on Wednesday the 9th , 10th , 11th , 12th , 14th , 15th , 16th , 17th of September ; in the 12th year of his Majesty's reign, sixteen persons were capitally convicted, and received sentence of death for the several crimes set forth in their indictments, viz.

John Leary< no role > Lewis Williams< no role > , Arthur Byrne< no role > , Isaac Poulton< no role > , Edward Burton< no role > , George Kem< no role > , alias Butcher< no role > , Benjamin Johnson< no role > , John Jones< no role > , John Sunderland< no role > , alias Sandiland< no role > , John Chapman< no role > , John Browning< no role > , Mary Trubridge< no role > , Ann Silver< no role > , John Creamer< no role > , Benjamin Rogers< no role > . John Wyld< no role > died before the report was made; and Charles Locket< no role > remains not reported.

And on Wednesday the 7th of Oct . the report of the said malefactors being made to his Majesty, by Mr. Recorder, ten of then were respited; namely, John Leary< no role > , Lewis Williams< no role > , Arthur Byrne< no role > , Isaac Poulton< no role > , Edward Burton< no role > , George Kem< no role > , alias Butcher< no role > , Benjamin Johnson< no role > , John Browning< no role > , Mary Trubridge< no role > , Ann Silver< no role > ; and the remaining five ordered for execution on the Wednesday following; Benjamin Rogers< no role > died after the order came for execution; and four were accordingly executed.

John Jones< no role > and John Sunderland< no role > , otherwise Sandiland< no role > , were indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Aaron Franks< no role > Esq . on the second of September about the hour of two in the morning, and stealing one silver sauce-pan, value ten-shillings, one pair of silver kneebuckles, value four-shillings, and one pair of silver garter-buckles, value two shillings, the property of the said Aaron Franks< no role > , Esq. one gold watchchain, value twenty shillings, two seals set in gold, value twenty shillings, six linen stocks, value three shillings, eight pair of silk stockings, value thirty shillings, two silk handkerchiefs, value four shillings, five other pocket handkerchiefs, value five shillings, five linen shirts, value forty shillings, one flannel-waistcoat, value five shillings, and one pair of laced ruffles, value forty-shillings, the property of Jacob Franks< no role > Esq . one cloth coat, value twenty shillings, one cloth waistcoat, value five shillings, two other linen shirts, value four shillings one cornelian seal set in silver, value two shillings, one pair of silk stockings, value one shilling, and one pair of thread stockings, value six-pence, the property of Joseph Grover< no role > ; four other shirts, value sixteen shillings, two pair of worsted stockings, value three shillings, the property of Phineas Ghent< no role > , and one thickset frock, value fifteen shillings, the property of Richard Varley< no role > , in the dwelling house of the said Aaron Franks< no role > , Esq.

John Jones< no role > was born at Uxbridge , in the county of Middlesex , of honest and industrious parents, who gave him an education suitable to their circumstances, and when of proper age,




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