Thomas Ham, Highway robbery, F 25 July 1777. Robert Blades, Highway robbery, F 20 March 1778. Edward Dowson ... Thomas Newman, Highway robbery, F 6 April 1798.

Richard Wheatley, for robbing a bleach yard. 1775. William Voce, for committing a rape at Sneintop, March 20. 1779. John Spencer, for murder and robbery, July.

He then went to the highway, committed a robbery, was apprehended, and ... After many similar adventures, Tom was apprehended for robbing a farmer's wife.

" Thomas Woodham, Highway robbery ; " William Stiles, Murder of Richard Hole ; Hanged at Hemp Green, Bridgwater ; 1786 - 11 executions.

Four of these five robberies took place on the highways surrou eighteenth century, highway robbery epitomized crime - so much considered a gauge of crime.8 ...

Thomas Ham, a ... The rest mostly suffered for various types of property related crime, such as highway robbery, burglary, housebreaking and forgery.

Residents crop up regularly in the trial transcripts, mostly for petty theft but also for highway robbery, forgery and arson. In 1735 Elizabeth Calloway ...

Most of the acts of robbery in Virginia in the eighteenth century were committed by highwaymen. Thus, at the court of Oyer and Terminer held in December, 1752, ...

rape, highway robbery, maining, burglary, arson, witchcraft, and sodomy. Later in the century the colony would add counterfeiting, squatting on. Indian land ...

I live in Edgware-road. I was at Budden's house on the day of the robbery, in the bar, and saw the prisoners when they came down stairs; they were taking brandy ...