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1801: Canda, Minorca, Nile, owned/managed by Reeve and Green, who are almost impossible to trace despite often being linked to John St Barbe in matters of the use of convict shipping..
1801: Convict ship Canada I, 393 tons, built Shields in 1800, Capt Wm Wilkinson, surgeon John Kelly. Departing Spithead 21 June 1801 via Rio 176 days to arrive Sydney 14 December, 1810, possibly maiden voyage, possibly owned by Hurry and Co. (a whaling firm, see below re settling of Hobart) and later sold to Reeve and Green (asociates of St Barbe), and re-entered in convict service thus in 1810.
1801: George Bass's trading ship Venus was at Sydney on 29 August 1801. Bass' London agent was Sykes, naval agent for most naval officers at Port Jackson.
1801: 25 September 1801, George Shee at Whitehall to Transport Board
re idea that South whalers will be (regularly) employed as convict
transports - an idea which did not eventuate.
Historical Records of NSW, Vol. 4, p. 523.
1801: Whalers begin to frequent coast of New Zealand (Bay of
Islands). A trade begins between NSW, New Zealand and the South Sea
Islands. Dakin suggests Norfolk Island is a useful sperm whale ground.
Lord Pelham has suggestions, unsuccessful, that whalers carry out
convicts to Australia.
Dakin, Whalemen Adventurers, pp. 19-23; Dallas, Trading Posts
or Penal Colonies, p. 86.)
1801: 4 October, 1801, from Sydney sails convict transport Earl
Cornwallis for Bengal, with first shipment of Newcastle coal.
Historical Records of Australia I, Vol. II.
1801: John Palmer becomes brother-in-law of Sydney trader Robert
Campbell as Campbell marries John's sister, Sophia.
(Hainsworth, Builders, pp. 86ff. Gillen, Founders, p.
547.)
Item of 23 March 2002: A new book is coming out on Palmer and Co. of
India, operating before and after 1800: For those with an interest in
the trading house of Palmer & Company (a PDF file):
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/newsevents/edgeways/archive/issue4/pdf/prince.pdf
1801-1824: A long-time Macarthur contact is W. S. Clarke, former
master of East Indiaman Wexford, and by 1824 an EICo Director.
He met John Macarthur Snr and Jnr at Ambon in 1801. This Clarke from
1824 becomes an investor in Australian Agricultural Co.
(Pemberton, London Connection, p. 52.)
1801: Joseph Somes has three vessels in South Whaler Fishery but by 1801 was getting out as it did not pay. Somes later took contracts to send many convict transports to Australia. (Jackson, Whale, p. 141.)
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1801: London sends 60 vessels into its whale fishery, Bristol sends 1, Yarmouth 1. 1801: Charnock, (See Parkinson on the East, p. 188.) lists some chief managing owners of EICo shipping, as Robert Charnock, William Fraser, Robert Wigram and John Woolmore. (A. G. E. Jones, whaling historian, various writings):
1801: Hugh Inglis an EICo director wites to to Sir Joseph Banks re hemp supplies.
1801-1802: Coromandel 1, owned Reeve and Green or Brown, Welbank and Petyt. Arriving Sydney 13 June, 1802.
1801-1802: Hercules 1, Probably owned by John St Barbe. Arriving 26 June 1802.
1801-1802: Atlas 1, (I), Arriving 7 July 1802.
1802: Lloyd''s Green Book - Register. Usual names include: George Curling, NO; W, Curtis, EICo; George Forbes; Turnbull Forbes and Co.; Rt Hon Thomas Harley; J. P. Larkins; Plummer; Barry and Upham; St Barbe, Green and Bignell; John Shoolbred (Africa Co.); Smith; St Barbe, and Marten; Thorntons; New 1802 Green members included: Benjamin Bunn Jnr; Campbell and Geddes; and Thos Powditch.
1802: Perseus, owned Reeve and Green or Brown, Welbank and Petyt (once owners of Bethia which became HM Bounty). Arriving Sydney 4 August, 1802.
1802: March: Peace of Amiens, ending war between Britain and France. Britain retains Ceylon. Cape of Good Hope retained by Dutch.
1802: Atlas 2. Arriving 30 October, 1802.
1802: Sir Robert Wigram ... had started life as
surgeon's mate in the EICo's service etc. Twice surgeon on ships. The
next stage in his career was the opening of a small shop for the supply
of drugs to ships, and by buying shares in Indiamen he laid the
foundation for a fortune, which when Farrington writes of him in 1809
was "thought to be more than half a million". He owned most of the
shares in Meux's brewery (UK) and was head of a great agency in Crosby
Square, Bishopgate. Three fourths of the shares in the Blackwall Docks
of London were also his, acquired about the year 1802 from William
Wells, a retired" Company's captain" and his brother. Here, Wigram
built the numerous Indiamen which he chartered to the Company, and which
were the forerunner of the celebrated 'Money Wigram clippers".
(From "East Indiamen" by Sir Evan Cotton and edited by
Sir Charles Fawcett.)
1802-1803: HMS Glatton, arriving 11 March, 1803.
1802-1803: Rolla, arriving 12 May, 1803.
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1803: Gov. King at Sydney orders the settlement of Tasmania, his
reasons given being (1) to prevent any French occupation (2) for timber
getting (3) to divide the convicts (4) to raise grain (5) to promote
sealing. Capt Eber Bunker, still on the whaler Albion, assisted
an expedition, 12 September, 1803.
Dakin, Whalemen Adventurers, p. 30.
1803: 12 February, 1803: Arrives Sydney/Port Jackson the largest ship to thus far enter the harbour, Castle of Good Hope, 1000 tons, 307 head Bengal cattle, some Zebu, donkeys, rice and sugar, under contract, and 14000 gals spirits. Shop for Rbt Campbell and Co.
1803: 12 September: John Bowen arrives to "the future Tasmania",
Hobart, with convicts to set up a new British colony.
See Philip Tardif, Notorious Strumpets and
Dangerous Girls: Convict Women in Van Diemen's Land, 1803-1829.
North Ryde, NSW, Angus and Robertson, 1990.
1803: 1803+: Treatment of convicts convicted in India, mostly,
indigenous people.
(See also, C. M. Turnbull,
'Convicts in the Straits Settlements', 1826-1867', Journal of
the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 43, Part 1,
No. 217, July 1970., pp. 87-103.)
1803: Lloyd's Green Book Committee: Angerstein, John Burke, William Bell, John Campbell, Alexr. Champion, George Curling, Charles Henry Dubois, Effingham Laurence, Robert Pulsford, Robert Shelden, Edward Vaux. At Register Office of Shipping, No 4 Castle Court, Birchin Lane. New 1803 members are David Scott and Co, John Shee and Thomas.
1803: Lloyd's Red Book Subscribers List includes: Moses Agar, J. & A. Atkins, Thomas Backhouse and Co., John Blackett, William Bewnett (? - Bennett?), Brown, Welbank and Co., Norrison Coverdale; Camden Calvert and Co., Cox and Curling, Robert Curling, Duncan and Lachlan, Thomas Hall, Hodgson and Co., Humble, Holland and Hurry, Ives Hurry and Co., Peter Kennion, John Lyall, Thomas Newnham, Reeve and Green, Thomas Rowcroft, St. Barbe, Green and Co., F. S. Secretan, Society of Ship Owners of Great Britain. Transport Board (2 books).
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1803: The man who named Australia: Matthew Flinders (died 1814), a "naval prodigy". Son of Lincolnshire surgeons. By 1801 he had sailed to Tahiti with William Bligh, and sailed with Capt. John Hunter to NSW, later surveying Bass Strait with Bass. Been first to circumnavigate Tasmania, and developed ambition of doing the same for the entire continent. (Flinders married Ann Chapell and had a daughter Anne who was mother of the explorer/Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie). By 1801, Flinders was sailing about Australia (Terra Australis. At Encounter Bay off South Australia he met French explorer Nicholas Baudin (who died of dysentery on Mauritius). Baudin was using a map Flinders himself had drawn! In 1803, Flinders' voyage home was interrupted, and he called in to Ile-de-France (Mauritius). The governor General de Caen imprisoned Flinders for seven years as a "spy". Flinders did not reach England till 1810, and almost killed himself with work on his discoveries, and met bureaucratic inertia from the Admiralty.
1804: Circa: Date becomes relevant for the London-based Green-Wigram partnerships. Some information is extant on Wigrams, a large family with some men operating as convict contractors. Greens seem resistant to genealogical research, although they are referred to in E. Keble Chatterton, The Mercantile Marine. London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1923., pp. 94ff. On Wigrams, see Burke's Landed Gentry for Arkwright of Sutton Scarsdale and Long of Sydenham. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage for Wigram. There is no date in Shelton's Contracts No 25, for Coromandel and Experiment, contracts with Messrs Reeve and Wigram, 382 cons, Shelton charged £381/14/8d. with three Scotch convicts; as found in Byrnes, `The Blackheath Connection', p. 97, Note 156.
1804: 4 March, 1804, Sunday, Convict rebellion at Castle Hill, Sydney, the only battle (as reported) ever fought by the NSW Corps. Otherwise, soldiers' conflict with Aboriginals was not exactly "officially reported".
1804: Coromandel 1 (2), probably owned as Coromandel I above. Arriving Sydney 7 May 1804.
1804: Experiment 1, Arriving Sydney 24 June, 1804.
1804: Active at Penang by 1804: Robert Townsend Farquhar
(1776-1830), governor at Penang, succeeding Leith, very energetic, and
he reconstructs Fort Cornwallis. French privateers still sail about.
Farquar is succeeded by Philip Dundas, brother of Henry Dundas (Lord
Melville). In 1804, Acheen has a civil war, family squabble, the
displaced sultan offers Penang a fort and settlement at Acheen, re
pepper trade, but the EICo procrastinates. Then the EICo directors went
for a Acheen fort, maybe to command northern approach to the Straits of
Malacca. Philip Dundas also shilly-shallied. But in 1805, ambitions
grew. EICo, Directors very keen, mentioning Pegu timber nearby as well.
Clodd, Francis Light, pp. 140-148.
1804: By 1804, New Zealand "did its bit" re providing naval timber.
Captains had been enthusiastic about the woods of NSW and NZ, and by
1804, England was receiving masts of NZ kaurie or NSW jarrah. (But in
1809, New Zealand cannibals "ate the crew" of Boyd, loading NZ
spars for the Cape Town dockyard. High freight rates precluded too much
business here, but for many years the navy continued to draw masts from
such remote sources.) See Albion also also re ships of Indian teak,
Malabar coast, as EICo now already built many of its own ships in India,
the Bombay shipbuilder, the Parsi, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy being involved .
Jeejeebhoy later becomes first Parsi Baronet and a freeman of City of
London.
(Albion, Forests and Sea Power, p. 197,
pp. 364-368.)
1804: John Prinsep in London by 1804 laid
plans - interesting but premature - to import wool from eastern
Australia. The plans involved John Maitland, John Macarthur, Mr. Coles,
Mr.
Wilson at Monument Yard, Capt. Waterhouse and Mr. Stewart. John
Maitland, of
Basinghall Street, was an influential wool merchant who had links with
Sir
Joseph Banks and Macarthur. (See Harold B. Carter, His Majesty's
Spanish Flock: Sir Joseph Banks and the Merinoes of
George III of England. Sydney, Angus And Robertson, 1964. Harold B.
Carter, Sir Joseph Banks, 1743-1820. London, British Museum
(Natural
History), 1988.) At an 1804 auction of
the King's sheep, Maitland was interested in Macarthur's proposal for a
company
to produce wool in New South Wales and
supported it in company with Hulletts, who'd dummy-bought two ewes for
Macarthur, and owned the Argo. At the
sale, Banks warned Macarthur of the Obstructive Act of 1788 preventing
export
of sheep. Later, Macarthur suggested to Lord Camden a Treasury warrant
be drawn
for the export. A company with a capital of £10,000 was proposed, but
the plan
went awry. By July 1804, John Prinsep was examined in Council Chamber at
Whitehall. (See Sibella Macarthur-Onslow, Some Early Records of the
Macarthurs of Camden, pp. 92-95.)
1804: 11 July 1804, wool gentlemen meet inc. Hunter and
Waterhouse, both RN, Capts Prentice and Townson of New South Wales
Corps,
William Wilson of Monument Yard, agent for Rbt Campbell and Marsden, and
William Stewart Master Mariner of Lambert, Prinsep and Saunders,
shipping and
East India agents of 147 Leadenhall St, owners of Anne to NSW in
1800. (See also, Sibella Macarthur-Onslow, Some Early Records of the
Macarthurs of
Camden. [Orig. 1914] Sydney, Rigby, 1973. Pemberton, London
Connection, p. 121).
1805 and later: McLardie are traders at Calcutta, in context of Robert Campbell's trading.
About 1805, Evan Nepean formerly under-secretary of Home Office, becomes Governor of Madras.
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1805: The prison on convict transport Tellicherry was
insufficiently ventilated, it was complained at the Irish port involved.
NB: This ship owned by John St Barbe of Blackheath, London; she was
lost, and was the last ship St Barbe ever sent to NSW.
Con Costello, Botany Bay: The Story of the Convicts
Transported from Ireland to Australia, 1791-1853. Cork-Dublin,
Mercier, 1987., p. 68
St Barbe's Tellicherry had aboard eight supporters of
Robert Emmet. (Shaw, Convicts and the Colonies, pp. 170-171.) St Barbe
lost Tellicherry about the Philippines about 1806. Bateson
describes St. Barbe as "a prominent London merchant and shipowner", but
not as an influential underwriter helping manage the Lloyd's Red Book.
Tellicherry was to load China tea, a good indication that by
1805, a former whaler could deal with the East India Company without
animosity.
(Bateson, Convict Ships, p.
190.)
1805: Chace, Chinnery and Co. of Madras, bankrupt in 1805. In 1805: Chace, Chinnery and Co. of Madras, send ships to Sydney.
1805: Patrick Colquhuon, LLD, when writing his major work, A
Treatise On The Police Of The Metropolis, was acting as a magistrate
for the counties of Middlesex, Surry, Kent and Essex. He recommended a
water police be created for the Thames River. Patrick Colquhuon was
agent for West Indies Nevis 1806-1821 as Patrick and James Colquhuon;
and for Nevis, 1821-1848, James Colquhuon, 1825-1851; James Colquhuon
agent for St Christopher; from 1802-1845 Patrick and James Colquhuon
were the agents for Virgin Islands; from 1842-1850, James Colquhuon the
agent for Tobago; from 1806-1844, Patrick and James Colquhuon agents for
St Vincent; from 1845-1850, the agent for St Vincent is James Colquhuon;
1816-1826, Patrick and James Colquhuon agents for Dominica, James 1826
till 1852. James and Patrick Junior Colquhuon being nephews of Patrick
LLD.
See Lillian M. Penson, The Colonial Agents of the
British West
Indies: A Study in Colonial Administration
mainly in the Eighteenth Century. Orig. 1924. London, Frank Cass and
Co.,
reprint 1971., pp. 251ff. Patrick Colquhuon, LL.D., A Treatise On
The Police Of The Metropolis. London, 1805.
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1805: Sir John Hayes who annexed New Guinea, (New Albion), visits London and is deputised by EICo, made Deputy Master Attendant at Calcutta, succeeds to senior position in 1809, holds position for 21 years.
1805?: Sir Lionel Hook (d. 1810 or 1811) of EICo military Dept., secretary to Gov. of Bengal, brother of Charles Hook a sometime-trader at Sydney, NSW.
1805: Capt. Abraham Bristow discovered the Aukland Islands. Bristow later worked for the London based whalers, Mellishes.
1805: The impeachment of Henry Dundas, First Lord of Melville, who had "smeared the image of the admiralty with corruption". fix the outcome of the impeachment see DNB.
1805: Convict ship William Pitt, owned by Peter Mestaers or Hulletts Bros, 604 tons, Capt. John Boyce. Departing 31 August 1805 from Cork, via Mad., S. Salvadore, Cape, 223 days to Sydney arriving 11 April, 1806. Contractor, Peter Everitt Mestaer. Shelton Contract No. 26, with Peter Everitt Mestaer, dated 15 July, 1805 for 142 convicts. (Bateson, Convict Ships, p. 338.)
1805: Hullett Bros, partners with Macarthur in Argo, are partners with Blaxland Bros in ship William Pitt which sailed 1 September 1805, with Gregory Blaxland. (Pemberton, London Connection, p. 134).
1805: 18 December 18, 1805, Whitehall, (Under-sec) J. King to
Commissioners for the Transport Service, King being directed by Lord
Hawkesbury they shall permit Mrs Wiseman the wife of the convict Solomon
Wiseman, for embarkation on the transport Alexander, to have
passage with her husband in lieu of Mrs Henshall who has declined such
an indulgence. (HO 13/17, pp. 134-135, cited in David T. Hawkings,
Bound for Australia. Sydney, Library of Australian History,
1988., p. 13, pp. 23-27. (A book helpful for genealogists.)
1805: 19 December, 1805: Hawkesbury to A. H. Bradley, Commissioner
of Convicts, giving Bradley a list of convicts in his care and asking
that he allow 150 free of any infectious disease to be selected from the
list and put on board Alexander and Fortune. Hawkings
writes that no logs for the Fortune or Alexander have ever
been located.
1805: Re London Docks First West India Docks, almost as large as the
EICo docks then in existence. Finished in 1805, at a cost of £168,000.
Note: Australian wool when sent in larger quantities to London was
unloaded at London Dock, upriver from West India Docks. London Dock,
founded by private subscription, opened on 31 January, 1805; the first
ship entering this dock is unknown.
Upriver of Limehouse Reach, the only docks on Thames southside were
the Surrey Commercial Docks, which included Greenland Dock, Russian Dock
(a small dock), Albion and Canada Docks. Joseph Moore about 1809
organised what became Lady Dock. Brunswick Dock at
Blackwall was owned by Perry, the shipbuilder, and used only by East
Indiamen, Howland's Greenland Dock at Rotherhithe had been used by the
South Sea Company.
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1805-1806: The Hurry shipyard and complex at Howdon Pans [Newcastle, England], has been declared bankrupt in 1806 and assets gradually sold off. (Tony Barrow, 'The Newcastle Whaling Trade, 1752-1849, The Mariner's Mirror, Vol. 75, 1989., pp. 231ff.
By 1806, William Bignell, 1 contract with Shelton. By 1806, Messrs
Mestaer and Locke, 2 contracts with Shelton.
Note: It is known that the whaler investor John St Barbe had a
sister Catharine who married William Bignell, but it is not known for
certain if her husband was a partner of her brother John. He probably
was, as part of a family firm.
1806: 9 January, 1806: Convicts Hawkins and Cording were sent on
board Fortune, then to sail for NSW. Fortune's muster of
convicts was mixed with the muster of Alexander. On
Fortune was Capt Henry Moore (Lt, RN).
These transports were to sail with a ship commanded by William Bligh,
who was going out to become governor of NSW. Hawkings says the two
transports had 306 convicts, which conflicts with Shelton's naming of
298 cons. Hawkings lists the other ships, which set sail on 28 January,
1806, with Henry Moore complaining he had not got all his guard aboard.
The inventory of private goods sent in Fortune is printed in
Sydney Gazette for 13 July, 1806. Fortune (1) departed
England 28 January 1806 arriving Sydney 12 July, 1806.
Convict Hawkins was put to government work at Castle Hill. (Hawkings,
Bound for Australia, p. 3-4, pp.27-32.
Shelton's Contracts No 27, dated 23 January, 1806, with Messrs
Mestaer and Locke, with ships Alexander and Fortune for
298 convicts. Shelton charged £322/14/6d.
Departing 28 January 1806
from England, convict ship Fortune 1, 620 tons, possibly owned
Mestaers, Capt. Henry Moore. Arriving Sydney 12 July, 1806. Contractors
Mestaer and Locke. Shelton's Contract No. 27, with Messrs Mestaer and
Locke, in the Alexander and Fortune, dated 23 January,
1806, for a total of 298 convicts.
Bateson, Convict Ships, p.
338. By now, see for example, J. D. Shearer, Bound for Botany Bay:
Impressions of Transportation and Convict Life. Sydney, Summit
Books, 1976.)
1806: Departing March 1806 from England, convict ship Alexander
I, 278 tons.
Capt. Richard Brooks. Contractors, Messrs Mestaer and Locke. Arriving
Sydney 20 August, 1806. (He had a descendant in Armidale, writer Geoff
Blomfield.)
By 1810, Capt Richard Brooks was using a trading ship, Simon
Cock. By
1810, Birnies are said to be the only merchant and general agents
regularly trading to NSW.
William Pitt. Arriving Sydney 11 April, 1806.
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1806: Traders at Calcutta are Ferguson and Fairlie; in October 1806
William Wilson, years before on London Missionary Society ship
Duff, and one William Fairlie offered to act as guarantors of Robert
Campbell of Sydney (By about 1811, a firm was Fairlie Gilmore and Co.
of Calcutta, and Robert Campbell had London agents, David Scott Jnr of
London.)
1806: In October, 1806, in London, William Fairlie, of the India
house Fairlie Ferguson and Co., and William Wilson, offered themselves
as security for the further financial good behaviour of Robert Campbell.
However, the Lady Barlow affair had destabilised Wilson's own affairs
too much, and after Wilson's bankruptcy in February, 1811, he ceases to
act as agent for Robert Campbell. (On Lady Barlow affair see
Margaret Steven, Trade, Tactics and Territory: Britain in the
Pacific, 1783-1823. Carlton, Victoria, Melbourne University Press,
1983., p. 102.)
1806: After 1806, female convicts were sent in separate ships, except for the Providence in 1811. (Shaw, Convicts and the Colonies, p. 125.)
1806: 18 December, 1806: Shelton's Contract No. 28, taken with
William Bignell in ship Sydney Cove, Capt. William Edwards, re
113 convicts. Shelton charged £192/pounds, 15/4d. (Bignell was a
sometime-associate of St Barbe.) Departing 11 January 1807 from Falmouth
- Arriving Sydney 18 June, 1807.
However, 11 July, 1807, (See
Hainsworth, Builders, pp. 82-91), re a letter from Sydney
merchant Simeon Lord to Gov. Bligh, a suggestion Sydney Cove was
technically owned by Thos. W. Plummer of London, and Bligh was
inquisitive about this. (?)
1807: Departing February 1807 from England?, convict ship Duke of
Portland (1), for whaler Daniel Bennet (of Blackheath), whalers,
523 tons, built Bordeaux in 1790, Capt. John C. Spence, surgeon
unlisted, to Sydney arriving 27 July, 1807. Contractor, Daniel Bennett.
Shelton's Contract No 29, with whaler Daniel Bennett dated 1 January,
1807, for 224 convicts. Shelton charged £313/17/6d.
(Bateson, Convict Ships, p. 338.)
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1807: Walter Stevenson Davidson visits China as part of a trading
venture with John Macarthur, Robert Campbell and Garnham Blaxcell.
Returned to England in 1809 after deposition of Gov. Bligh in NSW.
Pemberton, The London Connection, p. 123.
1807: First bales of Australian wool arrive in London.
1808: Saturday 6 February, 1808: American Capt. Mayhew Folger in
Topaz is off Pitcairn Island and thinks he sees smoke. He is
surprised as he thought Cataret had described the island as unpopulated.
Not until after February 1808, was it known that Pitcairn Island had
become Fletcher Christian's hideaway.
See Robert V. J. Varman, The Bounty-Tahitian Genealogies of
Pitcairn Island descendants on Norfolk Island. Central Coast, NSW,
1992
Shelton's Contract, No. 30, dated 22 March 1808, account with William
Wilson, for Speke, 98 convicts. Shelton charged £117/11/-.
Speke I (1), 473 tons, Capt. John Hingston, surgeon J.
Macmillan. Departing Falmouth on 18 May, 1808 - Arriving Sydney 18
November 1808. (Counting Royal Admiral 2, this was Wilson's
second attempt at contracting.)
1808: (Shelton's Contract No. 31, taken with Messrs Buckle and Boyd, in the ship Admiral Gambier. And Eolus. Dated 22 June, 1808, 278 convicts, Shelton charged £383/6/6d to make the contract. Departing 2 July 1808: Arriving - (Something is known of the genealogy of Buckle here, but not of Boyd.)
1808: Shelton's Contract No 31, taken with Messrs Buckle and Boyd, in the ship Admiral Gambier 1. (And Aeolus?) Dated 22 June, 1808, 278 convicts. Shelton charged £383/6/6d. Departing 2 July 1808 - Arriving Sydney 20 December 1808.
Departing 2 July, 1808 from Portsmouth, convict ship Admiral Gambier (1), Capt Edward Harrison, possibly for Buckles, 501 tons, Capt. Edward Harrison - Arriving Sydney 20 December, 1808. Contractors, Buckle and Boyd. Shelton's Contract No. 31 dated 22 June, 1808, for 278 convicts.
1808: Late 1808 departed from, unknown, convict ship Aeolus 289 tons, Capt. Robert Addie - Arriving Sydney 26 January, 1809. Possible contractors were Buckle and Boyd.
1809: Convict ship Experiment II, contractor, P. E. Mestears (Peter Evet, of London), 146 tons, built Georgia, Capt. Joseph Dodds, surgeon unlisted. Departing from Cork, 21 January, 1809 - Arriving Sydney 25 June, 1809. She early sailed from Cork with a West India convoy.
1809: Convict ship Indispensable 2, 350 tons. Capt. Hy Best, surgeon William Evans. Departing 2 March 1809 - Arriving Sydney 18 August, 1809. Indispensable, Contractor, whaler of Blackheath, Daniel Bennett. Shelton Contract No. 32, with Bennett dated 24 February, 1809, for 62 convicts.
1809: Convict ship Boyd, 392 tons. Capt. Jn. Thompson. Surgeon unnamed. Departing from Cork, 2/3 March, 1809 - Arriving 14 August, 1809. The contract does not appear to have been made out by Shelton.
1809: Shelton's Contract No 33, with Messrs Buckle and Boyd, their second contract, dated 12 August, 1809, for ship Ann 2. Capt. Charles Clarke, 221 convicts. Shelton charged £298/17/6d. Departing late 1809 - Arriving Sydney 27 February, 1810. Owner unknown, surgeon unlisted, no other details. (Pemberton has suggested the owners or contractors may have been J. & W. Jacob (?) She sailed from NSW with some wool cargo. (Pemberton, The London Connection, pp. 420ff.)
1809: London Docks: Joseph Moore acquired what became Lady Dock, part of Surry Commercial Docks.
Continued....
1810: Shelton's Contract No 34, contract with George Faith (an unknown name), ship Canada 2, dated 3 March, 1810, for 135 convicts. Shelton charged £245/8/-. Departing 23 March, 1810, from England, 393 tons, owned Reeve and Green, Capt. John B. Ward, surgeon unlisted. Arriving Sydney 8 September, 1810.
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1810: Shelton's Contract No. 35, with George Garnett Huske Mannings/Munnings, Esqr. (an unknown name), for ship Indian, dated 5 July, 1810 for one man only. Otherwise, for 276 convicts. Shelton charged £253/12/2d. Indian, 522 tons, Capt. Andrew Barclay, destined for more such voyages; surgeon Maine, Departing 18 July 1810 - Arriving 16 December, 1810. The last convict ship departing in 1810.
1820s: Capt John Coghill. He began working life as a mariner for Browns in the country trade in India. He argued with Browns, then arranged to sail to Australia for Buckles, Bagster and Buchanan of London, with whom he also ended in dispute. He made four voyages to NSW in the convict transport Mangles, in 1820, 1822, 1824 and 1826. A property owner, he was elected an MLC for NSW, and became a director and shareholder of Bank of Australia, suffering by its collapse in 1843. By 1829, John had brought out his brother William and his family to assist with NSW property management. In 1838 John helped finance one of the first overland expeditions to Port Phillip in partnership with John Hepburn of Smeaton Hills near Creswick in Victoria. Coghill had a young nephew, Donald Coghill, whom he brought to NSW, only to exploit the lad as an employee. Capt. John Coghill, wife unknown, had four daughters. (See Christine Wright, '"Rogues and Fools": John Coghill and the convict system in New South Wales', Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol. 3, No. 2, October 2001., pp. 38-60. Pemberton, London Connection, p. 67.)
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See also, Marjorie Tipping, Convicts Unbound: The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and their Settlement in Australia. South Yarra, Vic., Viking O'Neil, 1988.