Cyprus mutiny and his last three companions arrived there. The mutineers were tried in London and two of them, George James Davis and William Watts, were hanged in that city at Execution Dock on 16 December 1830, the last men hanged for piracy in Britain. Swallow, and two others, were returned to Hobart, where another one named James Camm was hanged. Swallow died at the British maximum security facility of Port Arthur. The mutiny is the subject of the Australian folk song "Cyprus Brig". Simon Barnard’s book "Gaolbird: The True Story of William Swallow, Convict and Pirate", is a fictionalised account of
William Watts (Virginian) House of Delegates 1875-77. William Watts died in Roanoke County on May 1, 1877. William Watts (Virginian) William Watts (December 20, 1817 – May 1, 1877) was a nineteenth-century American lawyer, soldier and politician from Virginia. As a politician, Watts served in the Virginia House of Delegates and was elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850. Watts was born in Campbell County, Virginia in 1817. He was educated at University of Virginia where he attained an M.D. in 1840, and a Bachelor of Laws in 1841-42. As an adult, Watts began a law practice Roanoke County in 1842. Watts