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Dates 1734
Location London
Vocation Vagrant, highwayman
Place of Birth Galloway
Marriage
Issue
Place of birth Source Old Bailey Online, OA17340211

Executed at Tybirn for highway robbery. 25 years old at the time of his death. Claimed to have been born to a respectable farming family, but began stealing while still young. Moved to London, apparently to avoid the farming lifestyle, and worked as a cattle-drover for a time, before travelling around fairs and markets with a rigged game of cup-and-ball. Subsequently moved on to career as a highwayman.