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The Records of the Old Bailey Online
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WILLIAM TURNBULL , EDWARD MOORE , GEORGE WILLIAMSON , JOHN BUTLER HEWSON , HANNAH GREEN , WILLIAM JONES , JOHN GREEN , THOMAS DOBBINS , DANIEL PRING , ISAAC TITTERTON , JOHN WEBSTER , BENJAMIN JOHNSON , WILLIAM JACKSON , JOHN BAILEY , and MARY ANN CROFT were severally and separately indicted for having in their possession forged and counterfeit Bank notes, knowing them to be forged . To which indictment they severally and separately pleaded GUILTY. Transported for Fourteen Years .
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Commercial Journal and Advertiser
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ENGLISHMEN, LOOK AT THIS! At the Quarter Sessions held at Maitland, on Tuesday last, Mr. Job Hudson, a person of considerable property, was tried and found guilty of an assault on Mr. Hewson an innkeeper at Newcastle under very aggravated circumstances; he was sentenced to two years imprisonment in the gaol of Sydney, one week in event month in solitary confinement- Could human cruelty have devised one more severe ? That the assault was one the most wanton, cruel, and outrageous, no one of will attempt to deny. Notwithstanding all this, the sentence is monstrously severe. We are personally acquainted with Mr. Hewson, and from his known goodness of heart, and exceeding humanity, venture to affirm that had he at all anticipated the severity of this poor man s sentence, he would never have carried the prosecution thus far, or made himself a party to it, but have let the matter drop in its earliest infancy. When we come to compare the crime of felony or embezzlement with a misdemeanour, and that misdemeanour only an assault, and find the self-same punishment inflicted in both cases, we can only say, that there appears something in it most appalling to the feelings of a true-born Englishman. In England such a proceeding would never have been contemplated, but looked upon with horror and indignation.
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Newcastle Court of Petty Sessions Letter Book
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Letter 46/59. Application for passport in favour of John Threadgold for six month passport to be employed by John Butler Hewson as stockman in charge of cattle and to travel between the Barwin River and Sydney
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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John Duncan appointed constable and pound keeper in the room of Kelly, dismissed on 23 October. John Hewson appointed constable in the room of Bishop who was dismissed on the 30th December 1826
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Married Elizabeth Hannell in 1828
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Tried in Middlesex in 1819 and sentenced to 14 yrs transportation
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Obtained Ticket of leave
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UK Prison Hulk records. Ancestry
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John Butler Hewson, age 19, convicted of having forged notes in his possession was received on to the Bellerophon hulk with twnety five other prisoners from Newgate prison on 17 November 1819. He was transferred to the Mangles for transportation to NSW on 15 March 1820
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John Butler and Elizabeth
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Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle
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Witness at the marriage of Phillip Joseph and Margaret Ryan
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Mary Ann and John Butler
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Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle
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Witnesses at the marriage of Samuel Langham and Ann Williams
