Charles Clement Deacon

The youngest of Dr Deacon's three sons involved in the Rising, captured with his brothers at Carlisle. Charles was brought to witness the execution of his eldest brother Thomas, after which he "fell into a panic Disorder" (Westminster Journal, August 9, 1746, p. 6). He was initially sentenced to the same fate, but his sentence was commuted to transportation which was carried out in 1748 or 1749 (accounts differ). It is also possible that he died in Antigua (suggested by a holograph letter from Charles to his father in 1749, miscbox/7/5 at Chetham Library) rather than in Jamaica, as stated in family records printed in the Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society (vol. 29, p. 86).