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Simon BURN
He
was tried at
Exeter, Devon
on
11 August 1783 for highway robbery with a value of 39 shillings.
He
was sentenced to transportation for
7 years having been originally sentenced to death,
and left England on the
Friendship
aged about 30 at that time (May 1787).
His occupation was listed as stocking weaver. He died in 1794.
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Partner in the original crime was John Haydon.Guilty of return from transport following the Mercury mutiny.Report from Dunkirk hulk was “troublesome at times”.Murdered by an unfriendly neighbour while trying to protect the woman with whom the neighbour was living.Married Frances Anderson on 10 February 1788.
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