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John STEPHENS/MORRIS
He
was tried at
Dorchester, Dorset
on
16 March 1786 for stealing clothing with a value of 59 shillings.
He
was sentenced to transportation for
7 years
and left England on the
Charlotte
aged about 22 at that time (May 1787).
He had no occupation recorded. He died in 1836(?).
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Report from Dunkirk hulk was “tolerably decent and orderly”. Received 25 of 50 lashes on 14 February 1789 for repeated idleness. Stephens had a history of violent behaviour in the colony, receiving repeated convictions for assault.
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