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Chapter 1.
John St Barbe and his Seething
Lane link to Walsingham: The convict contractor lists: The
degradation of convict status in Virginia: Jonathan Forward Sydenham
and relics: The export of rattlesnakes: The bad press of the convict
transportation system: Redirecting the English convict service: An
unrecognised small mercy:
Chapter
1 Words 5204 and
with footnotes 6535 pages 12 footnotes 38
Chapter 2. The
Elusive Duncan Campbell: The Massacre at Glencoe:
Chapter
3 Words 4446 with footnotes 5419 pages 10 footnotes 12
Chapter
3.
Genealogical shock Part 1: Seeking
the facts of
Campbell genealogy : Colonel John Campbell of Black River
Jamaica
and the Darien Company (and the Claibornes of Virginia, circa
1700): Jamaica planters and economic history: The 1685 invasion of
Scotland:
Chapter 3 Words 2129
with footnotes 3669
pages 7 footnotes 20
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Chapter 4.
Many are now possessed of
opulent fortunes: English expansionism and genealogical shock, Part
II: The origins of Neil Campbell of the College of Glasgow: Jean
Campbell and an Earl of Argyll. Life at the College of Glasgow:
Simson the heretic:
Chapter 4
Words 6567, words and
footnotes 8898 pages 16 footnotes 39
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Chapter 5. The
popular Mollie Campbell:
The boy Duncan Campbell: Influence of graduates of the College of
Glasgow: Wedding of Mollie Campbell:
Chapter
5 Words
3386 words and footnotes 3706 pages 8 footnotes 13
Chapter 6. A
discovery of Jamaica:
Statistics on Jamaica: A Scots heritage: Slavery on Jamaica: Duncan
and Rebecca Campbell: Campbell the arch convict contractor: Shipping
in the convict service, 1717-1785: Britain's state of crime:
Chapter
6 Words 5330 words and footnotes 6257 pages 12 footnotes 43
Chapter 7. Poverty
and prisoners: Were
there criminal classes? The great crime problem of Britain: Blinkered
vision on transportation: `Robustious days':
Chapter
7 Words 4151, words with footnotes 4752 pages 9 footnotes 32
Chapter 8.
Redevelopment of the convict
service from 1716: Property in the service of the body of the
convict: Before Duncan Campbell's reappearance:
Chapter
8 Words 5322 and words with footnotes 7242 pages 13 footnotes 79
Chapter 9.
Duncan Campbell's
reappearance: The partnership John Stewart and Campbell JS&C:
Campbell visits Virginia: Commercial complexities: Official contracts
to transport: The dread of gaol fever: Brutality on a convict ship:
Chapter 9 words 6316 words with
footnotes 8980 pages
17 footnotes 106
Chapter 10.
Society of Arts, Manufacture
and Commerce: George III: A new environment for the American
merchants in London: Debt problems: Wilkes, the lightning rod of
liberty: George III ascends the throne:
Chapter
10
Words 6059 words with footnotes 8078 pages 14 footnotes 58
Chapter 11.
Alderman William Beckford:
Britain glances again at the Pacific: Random slices on family matters
from 1758: Increases in numbers of convicts: Commerce and the
Campbell family: More random slices and Richard Betham: More convicts
versus less credit in the
colonies: Endnotes:
Chapter
11 Words 5580 words with footnotes 7615 pages 14 footnotes 75
Chapter 12.
Before the financial bust of
1772: Quarantines against convicts: A family uproar: Legal commentary
from Blackstone: Colonial political feeling rises: Death again in
Campbell's household: Capt. Cook in the Pacific:
Chapter
12 Words 6191 words with footnotes 7884 pages 14 footnotes 59
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Chapter 13.
The Tayloes of Virginia and
William and Thomas Eden: Matthew Ridley as agent for JS&C:
Sundry
Campbell Letters: William Beckford as absentee Jamaica landowner:
Transportation opens from Scotland: End of Capt. Colin Somerville:
Tobacco and customs laws: List of Duncan Campbell's colonial
correspondents:
Chapter 13 words
7205 words and
footnotes 10309 pages 18 footnotes 70
Chapter 14. `The
whole city was in
tears': Currying favour with gaolers: `Think what you are about':
Moving into Mincing Lane: The little-known Sir Robert Herries:
Background to the Boston Tea Party and the international tea trade:
Chapter 14 words 5180 words with
footnotes 9652
pages 16 footnotes 60
Chapter 15.
Protesting about affairs in
India: The "first bank at Canton": Questions of the opium
trade: The Boston Tea Party revisited: American grievances: Radical
tactics and financing the American Revolution: Death of Rebecca
Campbell:
Chapter 15 words 4464
words with footnotes
6744 pages 13 footnotes 55
Chapter 16.
Founding Fathers and the
debt repudiation question: More on Robert Morris: Debts in the
colonies, reaction in Britain to non-payment of debts: The British
Creditors:
Chapter 16 words 4464
words with
footnotes 6744 pages 13 footnotes 55
Chapter 17.
Deepening of debt problems:
Analysis of debt questions: The English South Whale Fishery: Brief
history of British whaling: Whaling connections: Gathering
destruction of the convict service: The death of Rebecca Campbell:
Financing the American Revolution: Chapter 17 words 9152 words with
footnotes 11475 pages 21 footnotes 100.
Chapter
17
Words 9152 with footnotes 11475 pages 21 footnotes 100
Chapter 18.
Duncan Campbell and
legislation: `all of my business is to show him hell': The paper
trail on convicts: Hypocrisy and the Hulks: Parliament and the Thames
in 1776: Hulks Act of 1776: Jealousy of Trinity House: Finding work
for non-transportable prisoners: Seaworthy "hulks":
Justitia and Tayloe:
Campbell's
contribution to the 1776 Hulks Act:
Chapter
18 Words
8667 words and footnotes 11132 pages 20 footnotes 84
Chapter 19. The
new regime for Thames
hulks prisoners: Tobacco in North America: `Or on any other navigable
river': `Becoming resignation to the divine will':
Chapter
19 Words 8241 words and footnotes 9664 pages 17 footnotes 52
Chapter 20. More
on Robert Morris and
tobacco: London merchants, 1775-1800: History and amnesia: More
London merchants: The hulks, continued: Campbell's merchant
leadership: Campbell's former agent, Matthew Ridley: War and hulks
business: Transportation not to America, 1779: `Nests of pestilence':
The Gordon Riots, 1780: Hurricanes over Jamaica:
Chapter
20 Words 10978 words and footnotes 13376 pages 25 footnotes 84
Chapter 21.
Hurricanes over Jamaica:
Matthew Ridley and Robert Morris: Before Lord Cornwallis surrendered
at Yorktown... the year 1781: History, amnesia and William Bligh: A
daughter disappoints: Convict records: the paper trail revisited:
Becky, gone: Lord Cornwallis surrenders: `a very deep hole in my
capital':
Chapter 21 words 7409
words with footnotes
9740 pages 13 footnotes 45
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Chapter 22.
Trade policy: Evan Nepean at
the Home Office: Transportable convicts and sovereignty over a place:
The problem of terra nullius: On
Phillip's Commissions:
Hulks business. The African Plan, Stage One.
Chapter
22 Words 8296 words with footnotes 12068 pages 22 footnotes 86
Chapter 23.
Fear of an organised police
force: Flotsam on a crime wave: The
British
Creditors: Part 1:: The British Creditors: Part 2: A new ship
Britannia: A business overview,
1782: Alderman George
Mackenzie Macaulay: `The
fear of its
awakening': The blasting of London's tobacco traders: Land dealings
in North America. `Shame, Neil, Shame!': Bligh's favour to Campbell:
Endnotes: On the "structure" of convict shipping to
Australia:
Chapter 23 Words
11212 words with
footnotes 14350 pages 25 footnotes 78
Chapter 24. The
fleet now daily
expected: 'You do not mention Henny': Death in New London: More on
the British Creditors 1: William Bligh, merchants, prestige, and
literary confusion: The outlook of George M. Macaulay: More on the
British Creditors 2:
Chapter 24
Words 8770 words
with footnotes 12846 pages 24 footnotes 83
Chapter 25. The
resumption of convict
transportation 1783: `Men unworthy to remain in this island' Part
One: A business overview: Henry Dundas and attitudes of the East
India Company: From the Bengal famine to Penang: The Larkins family
of Blackheath: Secret plans for men unworthy Part Two:
Chapter
25 Words 5997 words with footnotes 10726 pages 31 footnotes 141
Chapter 26.
George Moore's first ship,
Swift 1: Matra-esque problems:
army contractors and
Loyalists in North America: Further mutiny on George Moore's ships:
Chapter 26 Words 6026 words and
footnotes 7465 pages
13 footnotes 64
Chapter 27.
Confusions of the year 1784:
Pitt and the East India Company problem: The mystery of Sir George
Young and unnamed merchants in 1784: Slavers out whaling or sealing?
Rewriting the legislation in 1784: Pepper-Arden's inane first draft,
March 1784: 'Mr Campbell does not think himself authorized':
Chapter
27 Words 5163 words with footnotes 6958 pages 13 footnotes 40
Chapter 28. After
Selwyn's rewrite of
the legislation, August 1784: The legal foundations of New South
Wales: Duncan Campbell, The British Creditors, Loyalists, and Matra's
plans: Campbell's new warrant for the hulks: Softening up the East
India Company: Matters relating to Fletcher Christian: `I presume to
hand your lordship': Robert Morris and American tobacco, 1784:
Crowded hulks versus `the length
of the navigation':
The heart of darkness revisited: 'Next in degree to that of death':
Ships for Nootka Sound: Transported labour and later views on
Australian culture:
Chapter 28
Words 86818 words
with footnotes 10739 pages 19 footnotes 60
Chapter 29. The
hulks are `quite full':
No convicts for hard labour: Into the hearts of darkness: Whalers and
sealers: `The ill-judged parsimony of ministers': The convict
republic in the heart of darkness: Further into the heart of
darkness: Duncan Campbell and questions of tobacco: The interest
groups within the East India Company: `They must be resisted by
force': Lord Beauchamp's committee: 1785. `Man and arm your ships':
The unknown rise of the unknown Thomas Shelton: Botany Bay or Das
Voltas? A report never finally printed: Pulling down overcrowded
gaols?
Chapter 29 Words 10294
words with footnotes
12578 pages 30 footnotes 111
Chapter 30.
The vain ambitions of the Nantucket whalers. Campbell's
preoccupations with land in Kent: `I fear Mr Adams demands are not
the most moderate': Convicts at Cumberland Fort, Portsmouth: Duncan
Campbell and The Blackheath
Connection
`The gaols are in so crowded a state': `Destitute in all comforts of
life':
Chapter 30 Words 8192
words with footnotes
10089 pages 18 footnotes 65
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Chapter 31.
Debt collecting in America:
London petitions the king: Descended from those written out of
history: An overview of the Botany Bay debate as a problem in
history: Britain's ambit claim in the Pacific: The year 1786: Social
life in the Campbell-Bligh connection: French whaling threatens
London's whalers: A secret quote: The campaign to reinstate the
`taps' in the gaols: The London petition of March 1786:
Chapter
31 Words 7362 words with footnotes 9697 pages 19 footnotes 65
Chapter 32. The Debt
Repudiation Question:
an exoneration for the Founding Fathers of the United States of
America: Thomas Jefferson's trade mission to Great Britain: Questions
of whaling: Lord Carmarthen and the British Creditors' petition: A
bitter pill he and his friends could never swallow': After
the
Jefferson-Campbell meeting: Significance of the Jefferson-Campbell
meeting: The East India Company, the whalers, and an ulterior motive:
Further political pressure on the convict problem: a quickening of
pace: Convicts and priorities: George Macaulay's unfathomable desire
to transport convicts to Africa: The "accursed monopoly" of
the East India Company:
Chapter
32 Words 13043 words
with footnotes 19282 pages 33 footnotes 147
Chapter 33.
Futile debate: Duncan
Campbell moves his convict records: Lord George Gordon leaks the
Botany Bay story: Diplomatic awareness of Britain's intentions in the
Pacific: Lord Gordon's Prisoner's Petition: Robert Hughes and The
Fatal Shore: Some conclusions on the Botany Bay
debate:
Convict shipping to Australia and The Navy Office Accounts: Possible
personal intervention by George III: Bureaucracy, a variety of plans,
and the First Fleet: The Botany Bay debate and terra
nullius:
London steps up the pressure about prisoners: Botany Bay becomes a
real alternative: The anonymously-written `Heads of a Plan': George
Macaulay and a phantom First Fleet: The South whalers begin
to
explore the Pacific:
Chapter 33
Words 10116 words
with footnotes 12851 pages 34 footnotes 106
Chapter 34. The
First Fleet
misunderstood: Alderman George Mackenzie Macaulay disappears from
history: America sends ships to China: West India merchants, slaves,
Macaulay, Campbell, and ships to Tahiti for breadfruit: The role of
William Richards: history and amnesia: Newspaper coverage: Gathering
the First Fleet ships: Merchants and the "Botany Bay debate":
East India Company distaste for "Botany Bay": The role of
the evangelists:
Chapter 34
Words 10568 words with
footnotes pages 24 footnotes 77
Chapter 35.
Questions on forcing
convicts to labour at Botany Bay: Newspaper coverage of the First
Fleet: Thomas Shelton and the Home Office: The lack of a contract for
the First Fleet: The contract maker, Thomas Shelton: A strange
preamble to an Act for transporting convicts: Gathering the First
Fleet convicts: More on the role of Thomas Shelton: In the prisons:
`so very undigested and very expensive a scheme': 10 January, 1787: a
day of meetings: Arthur Phillip's reputation: London and Freemasonry
after the First Fleet (From May 1787): A brief chronology: Payments
to merchants: Arthur Phillip, governor of New South Wales:
Chapter
35 Words 16993 words with footnotes 20585 pages 37 footnotes 118
Chapter 36.
Emptying the hulks: The
First Three Convict Fleets to Australia: An alternative theory on the
mounting of the breadfruit voyage: More emptying of the hulks: The
disappearance of George Moore: The ambitions of William Richards:
Before the departure of the First Fleet: The Bligh-Campbell
Connection: Some aspects of crewing the Bounty:
The
tenders for a breadfruit ship:
Chapter
36 Words
11854 words with footnotes 14157 pages 25 footnotes 88
Chapter 37. HMAV
Bounty
and the Bligh-Campbell connection: Further aspects of the crewing of
Bounty: Lack of merchant interest
in Pacific
opportunities: After Bligh's open boat voyage: Duncan Campbell hears
of the mutiny on HMAV Bounty:
The return of William
Bligh: Fletcher Christian's family attacked: Heywood's faux
pas: Lady Penrhyn,
alderman Macaulay and
Tahiti: Lady Penrhyn's secret
orders: Bligh and
Blackheath Freemasonry:
Chapter
37 Words 8569 words
with footnotes 11083 pages 19 footnotes 65
Chapter 38.
Thames hulks prisoners and
work protocols: The convicts on the Lion
revolt: The
reappearance of Camden, Calvert and King, slavers of the Africa
Company: Nova Scotia still on the books for convict transportation: A
lack of news from Botany Bay: Sir Joseph Banks and the Blackheath
Connection: A little-known transportation to America: A Desultory
beginning: 1788: January 26, 1788: 1788: Snippets and Coincidences:
British whaling, 1788: Jeremy Bentham visits the hulks: Selling the
labour of the Thames hulks prisoners: The appearance of the Knuckle
Club at Blackheath: 1789: Aspects of commercial life: The innocent
William Richards tries again:
Chapter
38 Words 11915
words with footnotes 13588 pages 25 footnotes 86
Chapter 39:
Digesting the news from NSW:
Observations after the Bounty
mutiny: Shipping matters
in London: A further attempt to recover American debts: The formation
of the NSW Corps: The year 1789 - Part 2: Reports on the Nootka
Convention: Slave fetters for the Second Fleet: Specially selected
artificers: The continually crowded gaols: After Bligh's open boat
voyage: Prisoner problems persist: The odious Second Fleet captains:
John Macarthur duels with Captain Gilbert: The Second Fleet ships
gather: Unknown activities of the London slavers: The year 1790: The
Botany Bay debate revisited: Duncan Campbell hears of the mutiny on
HMAV Bounty: Campbell's reaction
to Bligh's return: The
whalers and the Third Fleet: Irish remarks on the resumption of
transportation: London contractors associated with NSW: Endnotes: (1)
On Martinez and Spanish fury at Nootka: (2) After the Second Fleet in
London: reasons for the spoiling of maritime history:
Chapter
39 Words 20321 words and footnotes 25656 pages 44 footnotes 183
Chapter 40.
At the Board of Trade, 1790:
John St Barbe's letter on carrying convicts: William Richards
attacked: Botany Bay and India: The year 1791: Lloyd's names and
interest in the Pacific: `do you keep me out of the scrape': A war of
secrecy: The Third Fleet embarkation continues: As the Third Fleet
departed: Phases of The Blackheath Connection: The Macaulay-St Barbe
Partnership: Capt. Manning's views of prospects at Sydney: Before
Bligh's second breadfruit voyage: Bligh's second breadfruit voyage
and the interests of the London Missionary Society: Before Heywood's
vocabulary of the Tahitian language went to the London Missionary
Society: The departure of the Pitt:
Whalers, the
Pacific, the Third Fleet, and the crushing of William Richards:
Richards reacts to news from Botany Bay: William Richards before his
bankruptcy: Richards further on business to New South Wales: At the
Board of Trade: Moves against slavery:
Chapter
40
Words 17005 words and footnotes 22012 pages 41 footnotes 152
Chapter 41.
Duncan Campbell's sons tour
the Continent: Chasing American Debts: John St Barbe and Captain
William Raven: On the New South Wales Corps: Between Blackheath and
New Zealand: The year 1792: The Larkins family expresses interest in
New South Wales: A feud between slavers: The African trade war
continues:
Chapter 41 Words 9906
words with
footnotes 12895 pages 23 footnotes 86
Chapter
42: The
Battle of the Red Book and the Green Book at Lloyd's: Campbell fires
his American agent: William Russell and the Court Brothers:
Chapter
42 Words 7377 words with footnotes 8846 pages 15 footnotes 30
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Chapter 43.
`The serpent we are nursing
at Botany Bay': The mystery of the merchants not named by Sir George
Young: Where the money went (Part One): Where the money went (Part
Two): Did NSW profits flow to Blackheath?
Chapter
43
Words 4752 words and footnotes 6489 pages 12 footnotes 41 
Chapter 44.
The Scottish Martyrs: More
aftermaths of the American Revolution: financial matters: Duncan
Campbell's will: Life in Duncan Campbell's household: Campbell
relinquishes the hulks: Hulks administration from 1800: The death of
Duncan Campbell in 1803: Cargo: seriously needing protection from
river thieves by the 1790s...
Chapter
44 Words 7436 words
and footnotes 9928 pages 18 footnotes 68 
Chapter 45. The
year 1795: The year
1796: The Blackheath Connection (Phase Two): Blackheath and the
London Missionary Society: further phases within The Blackheath
Connection: Phase Two to 1800:
Chapter
45 Words 5284
words and footnotes 8452 pages 15 footnotes 74
Chapter 46.
An Australasian quadrangular
trade pattern: Further on James Duncan of Blackheath: The Blackheath
Connection (the beginning of Phase Two): Duncan Campbell's last
years: Varieties of business:
Chapter
46 Words 9585
words with footnotes 12549 pages 23 footnotes 95
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