ran away from Capt. Stew. Powell our Commander, and went to New York ; from whence I sailed out in the Station of a Foremast-man, on Board the George Sloop, Capt. Abline Commander. I ran away from the said Sloop, and went to Martinico , and sailed there in the Station of a Linguist for the French Tongue, in a Trading Vessel. Soon after going in another Sloop to Cruize , I had a Quarrel with the Captain, and went to Jamaica , and lived there a Year in Quality of a Clerk, but was then press'd on Board his Majesty's Ship Mary, Capt. Vernon Commander; belong'd to it fifteen Months, and was Paid off at Portsmouth ,Aug. 26, 1721.

Being soon after put into Newgate, when I got out, I got acquainted with John Dyer< no role > , William Duce< no role > , and Joseph Rice< no role > ; with whom, on the 27th of April, 1723 , I robb'd in the Fields near Chelsea: Then we robbed two Men in the King's Road , between that Place and Buckingham-House; then my Lady Chudleigh's Coach at the same Place; in which Action Joseph Rice< no role > was Shot. We then rob'd a Coach in Tottenham Court Road , wherein were two Men, a Woman, and a Child, taking from them Ten Shillings; but John Dyer< no role > broke the Woman's Head with his Pistol for her Tongue, and carried away her Head-Cloaths. We then rob'd a Man in a Coach on Hampstead Road and took from him Ten Shillings and Six-pence.

After this, I went to a Place called Wansworth , and worked with one Cladins, a poor honest Man, till my Wife was taken up in order to make her discover where I was, and hereupon sent to Clerkenwell Bridewell; and I was forced to leave my Place, and return to Robbing. Edward Wade< no role > , John Meads< no role > , Alexander Garnes< no role > , Christopher Spigget< no role > , and my self, attacked four Gentlemen on Gravesend Road , and John Meads< no role > shot their Servant in the Breast. The same Night we robed a Man, and the said John Meads< no role > shot him too in the Breast; and ordering to go to Gravesend ; after mounted on his Horse, he turn'd his Horse the other way from whence he came, and shot the Man a second time in the Face, the Bullet lodging in his Neck; so that I hear he is Dead.