Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 24 Apr 1755
Execution Place: Gallowlee
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Nicol Brown was executed at Gallowlee betwixt Leigh and Edinburgh for the horrid crime of burning his wife to death.
He was afterwards hung in chains.
see Oxford Journal - Saturday 03 May 1755