Nicholas Saul

{{short description|19th-century American criminal}}

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{{Infobox criminal

| name = Nicholas Saul

| birth_date = c. 1833

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| death_date = {{Death date|1853|1|28}} (19-20)

| death_place = New York, New York, U.S.

| conviction = Murder

| conviction_penalty = Death by hanging

| conviction_status = Deceased

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Nicholas Saul (c. 1833 – January 28, 1853) was a nineteenth-century criminal and one of the founding members of the Daybreak Boys, a New York City street gang.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}} Saul led many of the gang's early raids, many of which were before sunrise— earning the gang their nickname—on the Hudson River and East River waterfront. At its height during 1851 to 1853, the gang earned an estimated $200,000 under Saul's leadership.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}}