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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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The second largest of the First Fleet vessels, Scarborough carried male convicts to the penal colony of New South Wales as part of both the First and Second fleets. Scarborough was the only ship of the First Fleet whose convict passengers plotted a mutiny, albeit one that was swiftly uncovered and thwarted
Louisa Collins was the fifth woman to be judicially executed in New South Wales and the first to be executed in Sydney. Prior to Louisa Collins' execution in January 1889, there had been four other women hanged in the colony of New South Wales, each of them convicted of the murder of their husbands.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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Jan 26, 2014 · 0. The Founding of Australia by Captain Arthur Phillip RN Sydney Cove, January 26th 1788; a 1939 oil painting by Algernon Talmage. When the American colonies gained independence in 1783, Britain was forced to look for a new outlet for convicts. In 1785, Order in Council were issued for the establishment of a penal colony in New South Wales.
