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William AYRES/EYRES/HARES
He
was tried at
Winchester, Hampshire
on
29 July 1783 for assault and highway robbery with a value of 48 shillings.
He
was sentenced to transportation for
7 years having been originally sentenced to death,
and left England on the
Friendship
aged about 24 at that time (May 1787).
His occupation was listed as saddler.He left NSW in December 1791.
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Guilty of return from transport following the Mercury mutiny.Report from Dunkirk hulk was “in general tolerably well behaved but troublesome at times”. Name ‘Hares’ was contractor‘s spelling.On 2 February 1789 sentenced to 50 lashes for “falsehood”, and on 13 April 1789 sentenced to 25 lashes for refusing to obey orders.
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