List of highwaymen
This is a chronological list of highwaymen, land pirates, mail coach robbers, road agents, stagecoach robbers, and bushrangers active, along trails, roads, and highways, in Europe, North America, South America, Australia, Asia, and Africa, from ancient times to the 20th century, arranged by continent and country.
List
Europe
| Name | Life | Years active | Country of origin | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jerry Abershawe | 1773–1795 | United Kingdom | last executed highwayman to have his body put on public display in England | |
| John Austin | d. 1783 | United Kingdom | last person to be publicly hanged from the gallows at Tyburn Tree, London. | |
| Joseph "Blueskin" Blake | 1700–1724 | United Kingdom | former associate of Jack Sheppard and Jonathan Wild. | |
| Willy Brennan | d. 1804 | Ireland | ||
| Mary Bryant | 1765–? | United Kingdom | ||
| Gaspard Bouis | 1757–1781 | France | renowned in Provence for his donations to the poor | |
| Isaac Darkin | 1740–1761 | United Kingdom | ||
| George Davenport | 1758–1797 | United Kingdom | "The Leicester Highwayman" | |
| William Davies | 1627–1689 | United Kingdom | robbed the rich for 40 years, otherwise known as the "Golden Farmer." | |
| Tom, Dick and Harry Dunsdon | d. 1784 | United Kingdom | ||
| Claude Duval | 1643–1670 | United Kingdom | known as 'The Gallant Highwayman.' | |
| Richard Ferguson | d. 1800 | United Kingdom | an associate of Jerry Abershawe, known as "Galloping Dick" | |
| Lady Katherine Ferrers | 1634–1660 | United Kingdom | believed to be the "Wicked Lady." | |
| Captain Gallagher | d. 1818 | Ireland | ||
| Louis Dominique Garthausen | 1693–1721 | France | known as "Cartouche" or "Bourguignon" executed on the breaking wheel in Paris | |
| Rufus Goodlove | 1688–1731 | United Kingdom | robbed the houses of rich Oxford merchants while they were away in London, reputedly by seducing their wives. Hanged in Banbury after being arrested in Cropredy. | |
| James Hind | 1616–1652 | United Kingdom | ||
| Captain Will Hollyday | d. 1697 | United Kingdom | Captain of the Ragged Regiment of the Black Guards; hung the young Viscount Stafford | |
| Juraj Jánošík | 1688–1713 | Slovakia | Betyár who became legendary in Slovak, Polish, and Czech cultures. | |
| Humphrey Kynaston | d. 1534 | United Kingdom | ||
| George Lyon | 1761–1815 | United Kingdom | the last known highwayman to be hanged in Lancashire, England. | |
| James MacLaine | 1724–1750 | United Kingdom | ||
| Louis Mandrin | 1725–1755 | France | ||
| John Nevison | 1639–1684 | United Kingdom | known as "Swift Nick" | |
| Neesy O'Haughan | 1691–1720 | Ireland | ||
| Nicolas Jacques Pelletier | 1756–1792 | France | the first person executed by guillotine during the French Revolution | |
| William Plunkett | d. 1750 | United Kingdom | ||
| Sándor Rózsa | 1813–1878 | Hungary | ||
| Jóska Savanyú | Hungary | |||
| Robert Snooks | 1761–1802 | United Kingdom | last man to be executed in England for highway robbery | |
| Jóska Sobri | 1810–1837 | Hungary | ||
| William Spiggot | 1691–1721 | United Kingdom | hanged highwayman and gang leader who suffered the press ordeal for not pleading. | |
| Philip Twysden | 1714–1752 | United Kingdom | Bishop of Raphoe | |
| Márton Vidróczki | Hungary |
North America
| Name | Life | Years active | Country of origin | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Alston | 1765–1804 | United States | highwayman, counterfeiter, and river pirate, alias James May, who was believed to be an associate of Samuel Mason and the Harpe Brothers. | |
| John Alexander | d. 1818 | United States | lower Mississippi River/Natchez Trace highwaymen associated with Joseph and Lewis Hare. | |
| Robert H. "Three-Fingered" Birch | 1827–1866 | United States | a member of the infamous, 1830s-1840s, "Banditti of the Prairie", who committed highway robbery, in northern/central Illinois and an accomplice in the 1845 torture-murder of Colonel George Davenport. | |
| Captain Thunderbolt | United States | an associate of Michael Martin, "Captain Lightfoot." | ||
| Doan Brothers | United States | Aaron, Levi, Mahlon, and Joseph Doan and cousin, Abraham were Loyalist highwaymen who operated in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York during the American Revolutionary War. | ||
| James Ford | d. 1833 | United States | American civic leader and business owner in western Kentucky and southern Illinois, who secretly was the leader of a gang of highwaymen and river pirates known as the "Ford's Ferry Gang." | |
| William Goings | United States | Leader of highwaymen called, the "Goings Gang," from 1816-1820, along the Vincennes-St. Louis Trace, a frontier highway in southern Illinois, where Goings owned and ran a number of roadside taverns to rob and murder travelers. Samuel Young was an associate in the Goings Gang. | ||
| Joseph and Lewis Hare | d. 1818 | United States | lower Mississippi River/Natchez Trace highwaymen and Baltimore, mail coach robbers. | |
| Micajah and Wiley Harpe | 1768-1799 (Micajah) 1770-1804 (Wiley) |
United States | America's first known serial killers, were Loyalists, in the American Revolution, who preyed on travelers along the frontier highways of Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, and Mississippi. They were associates of Samuel Mason and Peter Alston. | |
| Michael Martin | d. 1821 | United States | last of the New England highwayman, robbed in Ireland and Massachusetts and was the legendary "Captain Lightfoot." | |
| Samuel Mason | 1739–1803 | United States | Samuel Mason (1739–1803), ran a gang of highwaymen along the Natchez Trace, a gang of river pirates on the Mississippi River and at Cave-In-Rock on the Ohio River, and was an associate of the Harpe Brothers and Peter Alston. | |
| Isaiah L. Potts | 1784–? | United States | a southern Illinois tavern owner who, allegedly, was the leader of a gang of highwaymen known as the "Potts Hill Gang," along a frontier highway, near Cave-In-Rock and was an associate of James Ford. |
Australia
Main article: Bushrangers
Africa
Further reading
- Ash, Russell (1970). Highwaymen, Shire Publications, ISBN 978-0-85263-101-0; revised edition (1994) ISBN 978-0-7478-0260-0
- Brandon, David (2004). Stand and Deliver! A History of Highway Robbery, Sutton Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7509-3528-9
- Dunford, Stephen (2000). The Irish Highwaymen, Merlin Publishing, ISBN 1-903582-02-4
- Haining, Peter (1991). The English Highwayman: A Legend Unmasked, Robert Hale, ISBN 978-0-7090-4426-0
- Harper, Charles George (1908). Half-hours with the Highwaymen: picturesque biographies and traditions of the "knights of the road", Chapman & Hall. Online edition, via Internet Archive.
- Pringle, Patrick (1951). Stand and Deliver: The Story of the Highwaymen, Museum Press, ASIN B0000CHVTK
- Seal, Graham (1996). The Outlaw Legend: a cultural tradition in Britain, America and Australia, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-55317-2 (hbk), ISBN 0-521-55740-2 (pbk)
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