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Admiral Gambier 1811
Source:
New South Wales, Australia, Convict Registers of Conditional and Absolute Pardons, 1788-1870
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John Lee, tried at Bucks Assizes 3 March 1810. Sentenced to transportation for life. Granted a Pardon in 1820
Ship:
Admiral Gambier 1811
Source:
Petitions To The Governor From Convicts For Mitigations of Sentences
Details:
The Petition of John Lee, Most humbly sheweth, That your Petitioner came a prisoner in this Colony in the ship Admiral Gambier under sentence of transportation for life. Ten years of which he has nearly completed. That your Petitioner has been eight years in this colony and in the employ of Government the whole of that period and can produce undeniable testimonies of his good conduct. Your Petitioner therefore most humbly prays Your Excellency will in consideration of his servitude to Government, his general good character, be induced to bestow upon Your Petitioner some mark of your Excellency s favour...Note - recommended for a ticket of leave
Ship:
Admiral Gambier 1811
Source:
New South Wales, Australia, Settler and Convict Lists. Ancestry
Details:
John Lee, tried at Aylesbury March 1811. At Newcastle in 1820
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Admiral Gambier 1811.....
Source:
Petitions to the Governor from convicts for mitigations of sentences, 1810-1826. Colonial Secretary s Papers
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Petition for mitigation of sentence....Arrived in the ship Admiral Gambier and possessed an unimpeachable character during a period of eleven years. He was selected as a fit individual to proceed to New Zealand for the purpose of superintending as an overseer in the procuring of spars for H.M. Dromedary which having been effected, with all the humility Lees thought that he had merited the approbation of Captain Skinner and other Officers of the Dromedary
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Admiral Gambier 1811......
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Absconded from Newcastle Settlement
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Admiral Gambier 1811......
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Absconded from the limeburners gang with Francis Parcello, Walter Preston, John Cricks, Isaac Walker and Thomas Desmond on 15th November
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Admiral Gambier 1811......
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Lieut. Thompson instructed that Lee be wrought in double irons and strictly watched to guard against desertion
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Admiral Gambier 1811......
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On list of runaways to be returned to Newcastle
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Admiral Gambier 1811......
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Prisoner at Newcastle. Speared by the natives and returned to Newcastle settlement. One of the men he absconded with Thomas McCarty was reported to have been killed by the natives
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Admiral Gambier 1811......
Source:
Colonial Secretarys Correspondence. Series: NRS 898; Reel or Fiche Numbers: Reels 6020-6040, 6070; Fiche 3260-3312
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John Lee, Isaac Walker, Walter Preston, Francis Parcella and John Bucks were all sentenced to 50 lashes for absconding.