Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Feb. 3. This morning a shocking Spectacle was exhibited before the debtors door at Newgate, where 20 miserable wretches were in one moment, plunged into eternity.

The malefactors who suffered this morning were, John Hamilton, William Astell, John Kelfey, William Finder, William Steward: and Melvin Simmonds, for different burglaries: and George Goldsmith, Richard Hobson, Lawrence Hall, and John Jones, for burglary at the Black Dog in Shoreditch; Edward Johnson and John Evans, for privately stealing in separate dwelling-houses; James Dunn, for publishing a forged seaman's will: William Abbot, for publishing a counterfeit bill of sale, with intent to defraud the owners of the Warren Hastings East Indiaman; Allen Williams, for assaulting and robbing a passenger at Shepherd's Bush; and John Shaw, Thomas Tabbs, George Harris, Thomas Battledore and John Moody, for assaulting Thomas Francis, near Bagnigge Wells, and robbing him of some glass drops, a knife, and some money.

The oldest of these poor wretches was not more than thirty years of age. Three of them were Roman Catholics; they all behaved as became their unfortunate situation. They were turned off about ten minutes before nine, and were attended by the two Under Sheriffs. So great a number have not been executed since the year 1740, when Jenny Diver and twenty others were executed.