Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: highway robbery
Date Of Execution: 1 Sep 1770
Execution Place: Cambridgeshire
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/cambs.html
Saturday, 1 September 1770 (Cambridge Chronicle to be executed Sat 1 September) Nicholas Brown guilty of stopping Peter Dunn (otherwise Dixon), post boy on Newmarket Heath, between Bournbridge and Newmarket, on 23rd April: demanding money of him and on his refusal shooting at him and dangerously wounding him in the head and face (Cambridge Chronicle Sat 28 April 1770).
