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Obtained Ticket of Leave
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Obtained ticket of leave
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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John Early per ship Surry, in government service, charged with purloining a fellow prisoners shirt. Thomas Kenny states - the prisoner and I slept in the same room until last week when he removed to other quarters. The day after he left I missed my shirt. I mentioned the circumstance to the prisoner, and asked him for the loan of one but did not get it. I also mentioned my loss to Constable Merriott and described the shirt to him, and the day after Merriott brought me the shirt. I know it to be mine from the patches on the shoulders. Tis the shirt I lost. The prisoner states - IN my hurry in tying my own bundle, when I shifted my lodgings I took the shirt by mistake, having one of the same pattern. Mary Matthew who lived in the house know it. She has washed for me. Mary Ann Matthews states - I washed a shirt two or three times for Early during the time he stopped at my masters. It is the same pattern as that before the court but this is a much better shirt. I saw Early given his shirt some weeks since to a black native. John Early sentenced to 3 months in the gaol gang
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Tried in Middlesex. Ticket of leave holder
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Brassfounder. Assigned to John Cook in Sydney
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Convict servant of Duncan Sinclair. To be victualled from the Stores for 6mths
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State Records NSW Special Bundles, 1794-1825. Series 898, Reels 6020-6040, 6070; Fiche 3260-3312
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Sentenced to 50 lashes for refusing work at his master's farm
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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Patrick Hoy, Samuel Harris, Edward Flyn, William Ward and John Austin, all in the service of the Australian Agricultural Company at Port Stephens charged with being at large without passes....Mr. George Muir, chief constable states - On Wednesday evening the prisoners were delivered to my custody by Constable George Higgins and a soldier of the Buffs who stated they had received them from Mr. Joseph Pennington, overseer and some native blacks at the 1st branch of the Hunter River. A letter from Mr. Joseph Pennington, a free settler, produced and read of which the following is a copy.....Leigh Farm, Hunters River, 14th November 1826...I beg leave to report that my overseer in junction with the following named black natives viz doughboy, Kennedy, Bremen, Taylor and Jemmy Murray, captured the five following named convict servants assigned to the A.A. Co., who ran from their service on Saturday evening last viz - Edward Flyn (Surry 4th), Samuel Harris (Norfolk), Patrick Hoy (Isabella), John Austin (Hebe) and William Ward (Ann and Amelia). I should conceive my overseer as well as the Blacks are entitled to some reward as a stimulus to future exertions and request they may be noticed as others are performing similar services, I am, Sir, Joseph Pennington......The prisoner being called on to account for their being absent from their assignments - Patrick Hoy states as follows - Our reason for leaving Port Stephens was for the purpose of proceeding to the nearest Magistrate to make our complaint - We were on the way to Newcastle when we met Mr. Pennington s overseer to whom we surrendered ourselves and accompanied him without objection altho we were five in number. Four of us belong to the same gang at Port Stephens and were employed in breaking up new ground. There were sixteen in the gang and every Monday morning one hundred rod per man was measured off for our weeks work. The ground was hard to work and we were not able to accomplish the task, upon one occasion 15 of the gang received 25 lashes each for not performing it. I escaped from being on the sick list, besides which it was sometimes the custom to stop our allowance of tea and sugar if the task was not completed. It is impossible to do 100 rod in a week on new ground such as we had to work. We tried to do it but could not. We have even got to work in the morning before the Bugle sounded for work to try what we could do but with our utmost efforts from day break to sun set we could not succeed. Our rations are good. We have no complaints on that account. Harris, Flyn and Ward corroborate this statement. John Austin states - I was employed with two others to put up fences, that is not my trade - I am a sawyer. We were tasked to do 20 rod of rail per week, to cut and split the stuff and mortice and put it up. It is more than any three men can do. On remonstrating with Mr. Dawson, he said we must do even more. Remanded for a further hearing
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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Proceedings resumed relative to the five prisoners from Port Stephens - Patrick Hoy, Samuel Harris, Edward Flynn, William Ward and John Austin - Alexander Green states - I am a constable at Port Stephens. I was sent by Mr. John Dawson to appear against the prisoners at this place if necessary, for absenting themselves. I saw the prisoners at work at Port Stephens on the 11th instant. On the following day they were missed from the settlement. I am not positive as to their task but I believe 16 rod to be the general task work per day at Port Stephens. Some men lately arrived there from Sydney have done the task to within about two rod. I have frequently heard the prisoners complain they could not do their task. If it is not performed they are generally punished on the Monday following for not completing it. There is not any charge against the prisoners that I am aware of except for running away. Mr. Joseph Pennington states - I have been at Port Stephens on the ground where I understand the prisoners were at task work but not since they commenced working on it. The usual task there is 18 rods per man per day. It is hard work certainly, but can be done. Their rations are superior to those usually given to Government servants. Thirteen rod per day would be hard work for a man on a government ration. But these men might do the task on the ration allowed them. This is my opinion. Prisoners remanded for further hearing
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825, 1826-1827 (Ancestry)
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The five convicts absentees from Port Stephens ( Patrick Hoy, Samuel Harris, Edward Flynn, William Ward and John Austin) having been brought before the court, it is ordered that they be returned to their assignment at Port Stephens under a proper escort and that a letter to the following effect be forwarded with them, addressed to Robert Dawson at that station.....Sir, The five convicts having been brought before us charged with the offence of having absconded from the Australian Agricultural Company s establishment at Port Stephens, and having attentively heard and weighed what they severally had to urge in their defence, and taken into consideration the task allotted to them, as testified in the affidavit of overseer McKeenan, find that certain circumstances connected with such task so far operate in their favour, as to induce us on the present occasion to allow the length of time they have been in confinement to be a sufficient punishment; they are therefore returned under a proper escort to your establishment. They have been duly warned of the certainty of corporal punishment being awarded should they at a future period again absent themselves without a written permission from a duly authorised person. We beg leave to hand you a Bench notice, which we shall feel obliged by your giving the utmost publicity to amongst those concerned. We have the honor to be Sir, Your obedient servants (Francis Allman, E.C. Close, George Brooks)....Bench Notice - Should any convict servant assigned to the Australian Agricultural Company be found at large in any of the districts of Hunters River on any pretence whatever without a written permission from a duly authorised person, the convict so found will be brought before the nearest Bench of Magistrates and punished as a runaway.
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Newcastle district
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Archives Office of NSW. Colonial Secretary: Misc records (4/4570D)pp1-88
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On list of assigned convicts who are not mechanics. Assigned to Duncan Sinclair
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Colonial Secretary's Papers. State Records of NSW Special Bundles
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John Fuller age 30 assigned to Mr. Blaxland included in the Return of Burials at the Newcastle settlement.
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Application to Marry
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Joseph Gates aged 37, arrived per Surry, application to marry Helen Russell aged 41, arrived per Buffalo. Application refused as Russell stated married on arrival
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Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW; Roll: 136
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Blacksmith from Wiltshire. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland. To be forwarded to Windsor to be dealt with. Sent 2 January 1836
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Assigned to William Bell Carlyle.
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Convict servant of Francis Little. To be victualled from the store at Liverpool for six months
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Convict servant of Dr. Carlyle. To be victualled from the store at Newcastle for six months
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
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James Hewson, in service of Francis Little charged with theft. Mr. Little states - about 14 months ago a trunk containing a variety of articles was stolen on my way to my farm. The prisoner was with the cart at the time of my missing the trunk. Amongst other things stolen from me were some silver tea spoons and some razors. I have no doubt of the spoons before the court being mine. I am not quite certain as to the razors but they are of the same pattern. Sometime previous to the spoons being stolen from me, I had a seen the prisoners box at which time he had not any spoons. Francis Blower Gibbes Esq., states - A short time since I was informed that the prisoner had been offering tea spoons for sale. I ordered his box to be searched in me presence. The spoons and razors were found in the box as well as several other articles of a suspicious nature. On my first questioning Hewson, where he got the spoons he said he had found them on the road to Sydney but afterwards he said he had brought them to the colony and that they had been in is possession sixteen years. Thomas Tyrie in the service of Mr. Little, states - my master was robbed about two years ago. I am not certain as to time. A great many things were stolen. There were some silver tea spoons, those now before the court are some of them. I had no particular mark but I am certain they are the same from the letters on them. I have had them in my hands frequently to clean. The prisoner states - I told Mr. Gibbes, I had found the razors on the road to Sydney not the spoons. The spoons have been in my possession six years and in that of my family sixteen years. I brought six of them to the colony with me. Two of them have been stolen from me, the other four are my property. I know nothing of Mr. Littles robbery either from the cart or at the farm. James Hewson sentenced to a penal settlement for 3 years. Mr. Gibbes states he has a cow and calf in his possession belonging to James Hewson.
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Hodgson (Hodges)
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Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW. Roll 134
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Thomas Hodges admitted to Newcastle gaol from Sydney sentenced to two years confinement with hard labour
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Obtained Ticket of Leave
