Joshua Messenger

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: highway robbery

Date Of Execution: 30 Mar 1772

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Gallows Hill, Ware Road, Hertford

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/herts.html

Monday, 30 March 1772 (PRO reference E 389)

Joshua Messenger found guilty of the highway robbery of Elizabeth Peter in the parish of Stevenage on 16^th September 1771: robbing her of a clasp knife (valued at 6d).