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Conditional Pardon. Servant employed by Mary Hunt
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Convict Indents. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item: [4/4004]; Microfiche: 632
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James Richardson tried Liverpool Assizes 26 March 1805 . Sentenced to transportation for life
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Colonial Secretary Index
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Appointed to paint numbers on houses in Sydney
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Colonial Secretarys Papers. Petitions to the Governor from Convicts for Mitigation of Sentences
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....That Petitioner arrived in this colony per ship Fortune 1806 a convict for life, and was employed at both settlements of Castle Hills and Toongabbie under all the hardships privations and sufferings of the distressed colony by the inundations of that year. Early in the year 1808 your humble petitioner was called upon to act as principal of painters in Government Employment and there solely remained for the space of 7 years and better which he trusts with credit and without the smallest stain of character and the most part under the immediate eye of His Excellency The Governor; at which time petitioner received a ticket of leave being removed from his situation through sickness occasioned by his trade. Your Petitioner is a married man and ever anxious to render every comfort that he may obtain by honest and industrious habits to the partner of his life who is a free woman. After a service of 6 years and 3 months in the Navy of England by which I am married in my arms and 14 years 9 months 8 days prisoner to the Crown being more than the half of my present life,, your humble petitioner may with confidence look up for mercy and pardon to your Your Excellency s humane consideration, conscious of never having a criminal charge laid to my account before any Court during my residence in the colony save my once deserting the colony, and such would not have happened, but for the truly afflicting and lamentable circumstances.....
