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Database FactsheetDatabase FactsheetDatabase FactsheetDatabase Factsheet THE THREE LISTS The Database has three lists: 1) Criminals sentenced to transportation to America, 1775 2) Criminals executed at York, 1899 3) Debtors who pleaded insolvency, 1813 None of these lists is complete. The court records for the years 1700 1740 are especially imperfect and the entries in them are hard to confirm by other documentation. The Transports to America list The Transportation Act of 1717 made transportation to America a major punishment for serious crime. It continued until 1776, when the American colonies declared independence from Britain.
The Executions list Until 1837 a vast range of crimes in England incurred the death penalty. Many thieves and burglars were sentenced to hang along with the murderers and highway robbers, but in fact
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