Samuel Read

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: highway robbery

Date Of Execution: 5 Aug 1768

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Chelmsford

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Friday, 5 August 1768

Samuel Read (otherwise Samuel Smith) and John Saltmarsh found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of John Johnson in the parish of Marks Tey on 18^th March 1768: robbing him of a gold half guinea and 1/- in money numbered.