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Tasmania: 1836 - 1852 range of convict-related documents…
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Melbourne
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11-Dec-2017
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Tasmania: 1836 - 1852 range of convict-related documents including an 1836 deposition from Sorell, an 1837 letter from Richmond re the amount to be paid to an assigned servant, an April 1838 deposition from Sorell re embezzlement of funds by assigned servant James Smith, an 1842 document regarding 'absconders', a March 1842 Richmond Police Office document re a charge of misconduct by Thomas Lillycrap, who had been found in the bedroom in Thomas Marlow's house with a female assigned servant, August 1842 from Richmond, instructions re prisoner Charles Quinn 'three months hard labour, six weeks of which in chains', a March 1844 letter from the Police Magistrate at Richmond regarding a mix-up in the names of convicts on capital charges, 'These carelessnesses are very detrimental to the public service & much impede the cause of Justice..', an 1845 request for a conditional pardon for James Lewis, an 1845 description of prisoner Michael Cairns who was granted his Certificate of Freedom in 1846, printed forms with mss descriptions of prisoners William Chamberlain (transported for 7 years for housebreaking) and Cupit Martin (7 years for poaching, and an 1849 letter about an absconding prisoner, (Holloway) '..Your despatch re Holloway disturbed my morning's rest - if we can drive the fellow into the Eastern Marshes I calculate his reign will be a short one..' (12 items).
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