William Jackson

Level 221

D Wong on 6th February 2020

** 2 William Jackson's on this voyage** The other Wm. Jackson was tried at the Old Bailey. 14/1/1817 Stamford Mercury, Lincolnshire, England: Burglary on the North Forty Foot Bank. William Jackson, of Sutterton Fen, laborer, and Edward Hudson, of Frampton, laborer, were tried for burglary in the house of Dickinson Smith, in the extra-parochial place called the North Forty Foot Bank, on the night of the 31st of December last, and stealing three flitches of bacon, a shirt, a shift, and a waistcoat. The prosecutor and his wife, aged people, deposed that on the above-named night, about twelve o’clock, their house was broken open, and the prisoner Hudson, who lived about half a mile off, first entered. The wife wanted to get out of bed, but the prisoner snatched a stick, cruelly beat her with it, and prevented her; Jackson, who is a son-in-law to the prosecutor, then came in, and collectedly took down the flitches from the place where they hung, one at a time, and delivered them to a third person at the door whom the prosecutor did not see. ..............There was no evidence, except that of Smith and his wife, that the bacon or other property ever was in the custody of the prisoners ; and the case was made remarkable by the circumstance of the aged pair now positively swearing to the persons of the prisoners, and that they well knew them at the time they were committing the robbery and assault. although their first examination before C. K. Tunnard, Esq. the magistrate, almost a week after the robbery, they had not mentioned Hudson’s name at all as being connected with the offence, and only expressed suspicion of Jackson The Judge, Mr. Clarke, considered this strange circumstance; and on the Jury’s returning verdict of not Guilty, said that he thought they did quite right. *No ship found for Edward Hudson.* 11/7/1817 Stamford Mercury, Lincolnshire, England: Also committed to the Castle :— Jacob Lazarence Grolney Gainsley, late of Kirton, carpenter, (by Charles K. Tunnard, Esq.) on a charge of bigamy; —and Wm. Jackson, Sami. Fielding, and Daniel Cook, (by John Skinner Baily, Esq. Mayor of Boston, and John Waite, Esq.) for robbing Joseph Theaker, in the town of Boston, between 12 and 1 o’clock on Saturday night last, a wallet containing a piece of beef, a quartern loaf, and other provisions. Jackson is one of the men who were committed to Lincoln Castle previously to the last assizes on a charge of housebreaking, and is also one of the three who broke out of the Castle, and who were afterwards retaken, tried, and acquitted. 23/1/1818 Stamford Mercury, Lincolnshire, England: The following convicts under sentence of transportation have been removed from Lincoln Castle to the following hulks ; viz. on board the Justitin at Woolwich, John Sutton, Thomas Keip, Robert Dixon, Henry Smith, James Dickenson, and George Hurst, for their natural lives; William Hargraves, and James Parker, for fourteen years; Thomas Holland, and Wm. Jackson, for seven years each.- William Jackson was listed as 25 years old on arrival. Native Place: Lincoln. William was 5'9½" tall, fair ruddy complexion, dark brown hair, hazel eyes. Married (as per above).

Level 221

D Wong on 18th January 2016

William Jackson was 25 years old when convicted with Samuel Fielding and Daniel Cook (both not found as convicts). He was described as suffering from 'gravel' whilst in Lincoln gaol.