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Register Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle . Burials p. 10
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Government Gardener
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On list of prisoners transported to Newcastle per 'Elizabeth Henrietta'
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Ancestry.com. New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Class: HO 10; Piece: 20
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Overseer of gardeners at Newcastle
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Home Office: Convict Prison Hulks: Registers and Letter Books; Class: HO9; Piece: 8. Ancestry.
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Age 43. Tried 27 July 1814 at Chelmsford for felony and sentenced to transportation for life. Admitted to the Captivity hulk on 13 September 1814 and transferred to the convict ship Indefatigable on 13 September 1814 for transportation to NSW
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The Scots Magazine 1829
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Extract from The Scots Magazine re the trial and execution of William Potter in 1813....They were handed in and read, as follow : Whitehall, 6th August 1814.. Sir, HAVING taken into consideration the petition which you signed in favour of William Potter, a convict under sentence of death in the gaol at Chelmsford, I am sorry to inform you, that I do not perceive any circumstance stated on behalf of the prisoner, which would justify me, consistently with my public duty, in recommending him to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, as an object for any extension of the Yesterday morning, respecting W. Potter, now under sentence of death, in which your Lordship is pleased to o you do not find any circumstance stated on his behalf, which will justify you in recommending him to mercy; I wish it was in my power to offer to your Lordships attention, any act of his which might extenuate his offence, unless it be the ample confession which he made soon after his commitment, and which was produced at his trial, and by which, a gang of desperate villains who had long infested the neighbourhood where they resided have been detected, and the country rid of part of them, viz. Jasper Raven, and William Allen, may be considered as such.
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Sydney Gaol Description and Entrance Books. State Archives NSW Roll 850
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Admitted to Sydney Gaol. Sentenced to 2 years at Port Macquarie
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Raven (Ravard) (Ravens)
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On lists of convicts maintained by William Cox