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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Two prisoners held locally for robbery are identified as John Wilson and George Sears, previously convicted in New-York where they were whipped and banished. Call for publishing descriptions of convicted rogues.
Merged-components note: Continuation of a single domestic news item about villains in goal and the benefits of publishing descriptions of rogues, split across pages 2 and 3.
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New-York, viz. John Wilson and George Sears, who were condemned to be whipp'd thro' that City, at a Cart's Tail. Wilson was pardoned on condition of his executing the Sentence on Sears, and then were both ordered out of Town.
It would undoubtedly be highly serviceable to the Public, if such Accounts, and exact Descriptions of the Persons of all convicted Rogues were published by Authority in every Government.
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wilson and sears were condemned to be whipped through new-york at a cart's tail; wilson was pardoned on condition of whipping sears; both were ordered out of town.
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Two villains currently in gaol here for robbery are identified by description as John Wilson and George Sears, who had been involved in several rogueries in New-York and were previously punished there.