British Executions

Peter Brown

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: return from transportation

Date Of Execution: 1 Apr 1748

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Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/west1735.html

Peter Brown  was found guilty of having been convicted at Leicestershire Assizes held 2 September 1746 for stealing cloth and sentenced to transportation.  He was found at large in the Kingdom before the end of his sentence, which was a capital offence. (ASSI 44/63).