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Convicts on the Tellicherry included Michael Dwyer, John Mernagh, Hugh Byrne, Martin Burke and Arthur Devlin who were granted permission 'to banish themselves for life to NSW to avoid being brought to trial for treasonable practices.' (HRA Vol V., p 841)

Arrival of convict ship William Pitt - Free settler Gregory Blaxland passenger on board. The William Pitt departed Falmouth 10th August 1805 and from Cork 31st August; She called at Madeira and San Salvadore and arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on January 4th 1806, four days before the Battle of Blaauwberg. The ships log records that constant firing of cannon and musketry of the English and Dutch armies could be heard. The ship sailed from the Cape on the 9th January. She took a total of 222 days to reach Port Jackson (The Convict Ships, Charles Bateson., Library of Australian History, Sydney 1983, p. 188)

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Arrival of convict ship Alexander 1 from England, Captain Brooks with 14 male and 42 female prisoners, all healthy and with the loss of one male convict on the passage out and one child