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On 31 January she was delivered by wagon to Gravesend, and embarked on the ship Lady Penrhyn. Ann Martin was one of 101 female convicts who arrived in New South Wales on the First Fleet. At Port Jackson on 19 August 1788, a watchman found Ann so drunk that she could hardly stand, throwing things about and shouting abuse.
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David Collins, An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales: With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, &c. of the Native Inhabitants of that Country, vol 1, 1798, facsimile edition, Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1971, p 558; Val Attenbrow, Sydney's Aboriginal Past: Investigating the Archaeological and Historical Records, University of New South Wales Press ...
Contents. Mary Reibey is one of the most famous early convict women in the colony of New South Wales. A convicted horsethief, Mary went on to run an extensive importing and mercantile business and there are numerous references to her business dealings, liquor licences, land grants and purchases throughout the State archives.
EARLY COLONIAL SYDNEY 1790 - 1809. Period covered by this chapter - 1st July 1790 to 31st December 1809 Governors of the Early Colonial Sydney 26th January, 1788 to 10th December, 1792: Captain Arthur Phillip, Governor-in-Chief. 11th December 1792 to 11th December, 1794: Major Francis Grose administered. 12th December, 1794 to 11th September ...
David Collins, Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, T Cadell Jun and W Davies, London, 1798, gutenberg.net 34. S J Butlin, Foundations of the Australian monetary system, 1788–1851, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 1953, p22.
Part 1: 1788-1815. At the end of the 18th century, a tiny British penal colony was established on the east coast of a vast southern continent. In their minds this was uncharted land, but the colony they helped to establish displaced the many Aboriginal groups who called it home. For the new arrivals, this was to be a self-sufficient farming ...
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Oct 6, 2018 · He was the first person hanged in the colony of New South Wales. John Bennett – 2 May 1788 – A 20-year-old convict who was publicly hanged at Sydney Cove for theft. Samuel Payton – 25 June 1788 – A 20-year-old convict and stonemason hanged for stealing shirts, stockings and combs. Edward Corbett – June or July 1788 – Hanged at ...