Mary Jones (born December 12, 1803 as Peter Sewally) was an American transgender prostitute and soldier. According to The Sun, she would wear "a dashing suit of male apparel" in the day, while dressing in feminine attire and wearing a prosthetic vagina at night to solicit sexual services for men and steal their money. She is most well known for being the subject of a trial in 1836 where she was charged with grand larceny for stealing the wallets of men she engaged in sexual acts with. She is considered to be one of the first recorded openly transgender people in New York history. Arrest On June 11, 1836, a white mason worker named Robert Haslem solicited sexual services from Jones. When Haslem returned home, he had realized that his wallet containing 99 dollars was stolen and replaced with an empty wallet belonging to another man. When he found and confronted the owner of the replaced wallet, the man at first denied ownership but eventually admitted that he was pickpocketed by Jones as well. The owner of the wallet claimed he didn't want to report the crime to police out of fear of "exposing himself". Haslem reported the crime to the police the next day. Jones was found by police on midnight of the same day. When a police officer found her, he pretended to be interested in her sexual services as he led her into Greene Street and arrested her. When the officer searched her, he realized that Jones was biologically male. When the officer searched her room, he found several more men's wallets. Trial Jones was tried on June 16, 1836 and appeared in court wearing a wig, white earrings, and a dress. She was subjected to much mockery by the audience of the court for her attire. According to The Sun, a person in the audience grabbed the wig off her head, leading to the court bursting out in laughter. When asked why she was dressed in feminine attire, she stated-"I have been in the practice of waiting upon Girls of ill fame and made up their Beds and received the Company at the door and received the money for Rooms and they induced me to dress in Women's Clothes, saying I looked so much better in them and I have always attended parties among the people of my own Colour dressed in this way — and