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Biographies
20 Jul 1791:
WILLIAM FREEMAN was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 20th of June , two wooden casks with iron hoops, called wine-pipes, value 16 s. and one wooden cask with iron hoops, called a brandy puncheon, value 5 s. the goods of William Wootton.
WILLIAM WOOTTON sworn.
I live at the cyder cellars, Covent Garden, I lost two wide-pipes and a brandy puncheon, two were taken from the door of the ware house, Adelphi-stairs, and the other a little from the door, they had carts in the Strand, I had information, I followed the cart to Great Peter-street, Westminster, I went to get a constable; before I had got back again, they had pulled out the head of one of the wine-pipes, and the brandy-pipe, and the staves lay down. I saw the prisoner assist to get the cask out of the cart at the door, and when I came back with the constable, the prisoner was at work on the cask. I took him; I am sure they were my casks.
WILLIAM HUMBLE sworn.
I am a servant to Mr. Potts, I saw the prisoner and another man take the pipes away, they rolled them up, and I saw the last cask put into the cart, and two were in before, and they went to Peter-street, Westminster, to the prisoner's house; this was between five and six in the evening.
PRISONER's DEFENCE.
On the 19th of June, it was Saturday, I stood at my own shop-door; a gentleman came up to me and asked me if I was a cooper ; I said yes; he asked me if I could pitch three water-tubs for him; I said yes: he said if I would go with him, he would shew me where they were, and I went with him to the place; and he went under the Adelphi, and marked them with a piece of chalk, and asked me if I could fetch them away, and he would satisfy me; I went for them on Monday, and fetched them away; and when I came up in the Strand, I saw a cart, and I hired it for a shilling, and got them home, and this gentleman came and took me up about eleven or twelve in the same day; after I was taken up the gentleman came to my shop, and hearing I was taken up he went away as fast as he could; I have never heard of him since.
JOHN PURBY sworn.
The prisoner hired me to bring the casks, we went down three separate times for them, and put them into a cart.
GUILTY. (Aged 22.)
Transported for seven years.
Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice BULLER.
Submitted by Researcher (8546) on 5 October 2017
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William Freeman was tried 20 Jul 1790 Middlesex, age 22, was confined aboard Censor Hulk - 29 Aug 1791,(T1/696, 297)
In one online second source he is named “William Charles Freeman” which is unsubstantiated at this time. However, if it was true it could ‘possibly’ make him the so far unidentified Charles Freeman who was enlisted in the NSW Corps Oct-Nov 1792, and discharged 1 Jul 1795. This would need further evidence.
Submitted by Researcher (4371) on 16 March 2019
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- The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/1, p.182
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