Details:
Absconded from Newcastle Settlement on the sloop 'Speedwell'
Details:
Escaped from Newcastle settlement with Joseph Burridge, Herbert Styles and Edward Scarr
Source:
UK Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books. Ancestry
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Age 19. Capital respite. Tried at Kingston 28 March 1810. Received on to the Retribution hulk on 17 April 1810 and transferred to the Indian for transportation to NSW on 15 June 1810
Surname:
Pierce (?Pearce)
Source:
Colonial Secretary's Papers. Monthly Return of Corporal Punishments
Details:
Thomas Coyne, Joseph Rayfield, John Baker, James Camm and John Pierce punished with 48 lashes each for running away from the limeburners and taking a boat from along side the Resource