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Transportation
John Wood was transported on the Tottenham, departing 31st Dec 1817 and arriving 14th Oct 1818 with 201 passengers.
Tottenham (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 8 |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
Harry Thompson, John ...., and John Wilson, were convicted of breaking open the Stamp-office at York, and stealing stamps to the amount of 5000£. and received sentence of death. Oxford University and City Herald, 2 Aug 1817.
GUILD-HALL, Monday, July 21 LORD CHIEF BARON RICHARDS. ROBBERY AT THE WEST RiDING STAMP OFFICE. The Court was crowded to excess (in consequence of the Interest excited by this extensive burglary, and the notorious character of one of the prisoners, Harry Thompson, who has been arraigned on criminal charges, principally burglaries, and other offences of a similar nature, perhaps twenty times). About half-past ten o'clock the Grand Jury found true bill for burglary against the following persons:— Harry Thompson, John Wilson, and John Wood, as principals, and William Webb, as an accessary before the fact, in counselling and advising it. The prisoners were then placed at the bar and arraigned in the following order:— Harry Thompson, John Wilson, John Wood, and William Webb, … ... ...the Jury after a short consultation, found all the prisoners Guilty. His Lordship immediately proceeded to pass sentence of Death upon the prisoners, and in his address he commented on the extensive nature of the burglary which had been committed, the premeditation with which it had teen effected, and the long course of nefarious practices in which the prisoners had been engaged. His Lordship intimated that it was necessary to put an end to such alarming depredations, by an infliction of the utmost severity of the law. The prisoners conducted themselves with great propriety. Hull Advertiser, 26 July 1817. Harry Thompson and his accomplices, were capitally convicted for robbing the York Stamp-office have all been reprieved. Manchester Mercury, 5 Aug 1817.
On Monday morning, the following convicts left the City Gaol, York, order to be delivered on board the hulk, lying at Sheerness : —Henry Staring Harry, transported for life; John Wood, alias Charlton, alias Shoemaker Jack; John Wilson, alias King Jack; and William Webb, transported for fourteen years: the above four are for the robbery of the Stamp Office.—Robert Harbut, for highway robbery, for life; John Nelson, for receiving stolen goods, for fourteen years; Wm. Sledman, for stealing linen from the George tun, in York, for seven years ; Thomas Greenbank, for a street robbery, for seven years.— Hull Packet, 2 Dec 1817.