Details:
On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle
Date:
1st to 28th February 1823
Source:
Colonial Secretary's Papers. Monthly Return of Corporal Punishments
Details:
Sentenced to 25 lashes for threatening to strike his overseer
Details:
Convict servant of Mr. Webber. To be victualled from the Store at Newcastle
Details:
On monthly return of convicts asigned to J.L. Platt
Source:
State Records NSW. Colonial Secretary's Correpondence. Special Bundles, 1794-1825. Series 898
Details:
Assigned to J.L. Platt. Sentenced by the Commandant to 25 lashes for refusing work at his master's farm
Source:
NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details:
John Benson in the service of John Laurio Platt charged with refusing to work...Mr. Platt states...Benson cut his hand a few days since reaping and being unable to work in the field I desired him to go out with the cattle which he refused...The prisoner states that his hand being badly cut he did not think he had any right to work. Sentenced to 25 lashes
Surname:
Benson (Marshall) (Batholomew) (Duffy)
Details:
On monthly return of convicts assigned to Thomas Boardman