Details:
Watchman to William Carter at Piercefield. Note - no prisoner by the name of Patrick Connor in the indents
Ship:
Asia 1824 to Van Dieman's Land
Details:
Ticket of leave cancelled. Absent from district
Ship:
Asia 1824 to VDL; Sarah 1837 to VDL
Details:
Obtained Ticket of Leave
Ship:
Asia 1824 to VDL; Sarah 1837 to VDL
Source:
State Library of NSW. Autobiography 1840 - 1844 written at Norfolk Island
Details:
James Porter was born in London in about 1800. He was sent to sea at an early age and spent some time in Chile. In 1821 he was convicted of stealing and sentenced to transportation for life. He arrived in Hobart the following year on the Asia. After several attempts to escape he was sent to the penal settlement at Macquarie Harbour. In 1834, with nine other convicts, he seized the brig Frederick and sailed her to Chile. They landed at Valdivia where they assumed new identities as shipwrecked sailors. In 1836 Porter was arrested, returned to England, and transported again to Tasmania, arriving in 1837 on the Sarah. He was sentenced to death for piracy, but the sentence was commuted and he was transported to Norfolk Island. After four years of good behaviour he was transferred to the mainland. In May 1847 he absconded from Newcastle, supposedly on the brig Sir John Byng. He was never heard of again