| Description | Letter from Thomas Shepherd gaoler at Northallerton to Thomas Ewbank deputy Clerk of the Peace at New Malton. He has received three orders of sentences, but wants the sentence for William Robinson found guilty at the last Richmond Sessions of uttering counterfeit money. He gives a description of the "two blacks" who were committed from Thornton - John Buxton alias Buckshaw aged 25 years, five-feet tall, with long black hair and a tawny complexion and black eyes, born at Lucknow in the East Indies where he belongs; and John Anthony aged 38 years, five-feet three inches tall, with long black hair with some grey hairs, a tawny and pock-marked complexion and black eyes, born at Bombay in the East Indies where he belongs
Endorsed with a note dated 27 April 1802 stating that Buxton and Anthony, who are confined in the House of Correction at Northallerton as vagrants, should be detained in prison until a description of them could be sent to the India House, and it was known whether the directors would "dispose of them" and in what manner |