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John RUGLASS/RUGGLES
He
was tried at
Old Bailey, London
on
30 May 1781 for assault and highway robbery with a value of 24 shillings.
He
was sentenced to transportation for
life having been originally sentenced to death,
and left England on the
Scarborough
aged about 22 at that time (May 1787).
He had no occupation recorded. He died in 1837.
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Partner in the original crime was Samuel Woodham. Guilty of return from transport having made his way back after being landed in Africa with no food in 1783.On 10 January 1789 received half of the 700 lashes ordered for stabbing the Ann Fowles with whom he was living.
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