The date Friday 28th February 1800 is indubitably correct. The event is reported in the Belfast Newsletter of the following Tuesday. This date is impossibly Good Friday. The points posted by Wolfgang concerning Roddy's involvement with Thomas Archer are largely true. However, the account in the Newsletter is filtered through a politics which would label all such people villains.

I believe that the truth is that Roddy was "out" in June 1798 but was not one of those for whom a reward was offered. Archer's gang was patriotic in intent, most of its activities consisted of robbing for guns or "punishing" those who were believed to be informers. However, they also committed some robberies and paid off old personal scores.