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Absconded from Newcastle settlement
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On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per 'Governor Bligh'
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1821 June 1824 September
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On monthly returns of prisoners punished at Newcastle
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Runaway from Newcastle in Government boat. Retaken
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Runaway escaped from Newcastle in the cutter 'Eclipse on 11 May
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25yrs old. Native of Hawkesfordwest; 5'4"' dark eyes; brown hair; dark sallow complexion; and escaped from Port Macquarie
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Colonial Secretary's Papers. State Records of NSW Special Bundles
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Runaway from Port Macquarie. Sentenced to 50 lashes for theft and destroying the blankets in the gaol
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Colonial Secretary's Papers
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Labourer tried at Leicester 11 October 1819 and sentenced to 7 years transportation. On list of prisoners sent to Newcastle on the Elizabeth Henrietta
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UK prison Hulk Registers
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Lewis Collins age 25 and George Ward age 22 were sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing articles from a coach house. Tried at Leicester Quarter Sessions on 11 October 1819. Admitted to the Justitia hulk in November 1819 and transferred to the convict ship Neptune on 10 March 1820 for transportation to NSW
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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Lewis Collins per Neptune, John Hart per Isabella, William Betts per Hadlow, John Marney per Elizabeth, William Bond per Earl St. Vincent and Bernard Wood per Chapman, all runaways from Port Macquarie....James Croft, keeper of His Majestys Gaol at Newcastle states that when the above prisoners were placed under my charge I supplied them with some blankets as they were naked. They have since converted the blankets to various purposes making bags, and cutting off strips to bind round their legs. The Woollen they now have wrapt round their legs if part of the blankets. James Crofts further states - I found a rope on Lewis Collins the day before yesterday. I asked him where he got it. He refused to tell me but said he meant to sell it. I had heard that the signal halyard had been stolen from the cutter Eclipse - I have no doubt the rope I found on him belongs to that vessel...Sentences - Lewis Collins 50 lashes. The others 25 lashes each