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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per 'Endeavour'
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Correspondence regarding people and stock permitted to travel to his farm
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Granted Conditional Pardon 26 November 1825
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On list of prisoners to be sent to Newcastle per Endeavour
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Colonial Secretary's Correspondence. (NRS 900) Petitions to the Governor from convicts for mitigations of sentences
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Petition of Thomas Hunt of Wallis Plains. Arrived on the Fortune. After a residence of two years in Sydney he was charged by the superintendent with neglect of duty and sentenced to 12 months transportation to Newcastle during which time he received approbation of the Commandants Scottowe, Thompson and Wallis. Also that since that time he has voluntarily remained in the settlement. He is now married and has by the industry of his wife and himself acquired property consisting of six horses, one hundred and twenty head of cattle, pigs and other farming stock. Petitioning for emancipation which would enable him to cultivate more land and increase his stock
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Newcastle district
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Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 19
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Born c. 1789. Prisoner for life assigned to his wife Mary in the district of Newcastle
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
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Thomas Hunt (off the stores to his wife Mary Hunt) Charged with quitting Newcastle in disobedience to the Commandants orders. The Principal Superintendent states....I communicated to Mary Hunt on her return from Sydney that it was the Commandants order that she was on no account to take Thomas Hunt away from this settlement. I also communicated the same to him but in the course of last week, I missed him and reported accordingly....Edward Gaynor states....I was ordered in pursuit of Thomas Hunt. I went to Wallis Plains and found him at his wife s farm. Thomas Hunt states....I am sorry for disobeying the Commandants Order - I was anxious to get to my wife... Thomas Hunt recalled to Government Employment for one month
