"New-York, February 12.
"On Saturday last Richard Roche, born in Ireland and about 26 Years of Age, was executed here persuant to his Sentence. He acknowledged that he was whipp'd in Dublin, for keeping Company with an Idle Woman, who had stole some Goods there, and that they had some Time after, came over in a Transport Vessel to America. That he broke open and robb'd a house at Salem, in N.J. for which he was whipped there also." (1)
(1) “Extracts from American Newspapers, Relating to New Jersey [1751-1755],†William Nelson, ed., Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 19 (Paterson, New Jersey: The Press Printing and Publishing Co., 1897), 240, citing The Pennsylvania Gazette, 27 February 1753.