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Thomas WATSON

He was tried at Exeter, Devon on 20 March 1786 for stealing with a value of 62 shillings. He was sentenced to transportation for 7 years having been originally sentenced to death, and left England on the Charlotte aged about 18 at that time (May 1787). He had no occupation recorded.

Notes: Report from Dunkirk hulk was “tolerably decent and orderly”. Ordered 24 lashes on 19 January 1789 for contemptuaously neglecting work ordered by a marine; on 9 February 1789 36 lashes for leaving his quarters “with a bad intention”; forgiven the theft of a shirt on 4 June as King’s Birthday amnesty; on 9 October 1789 ordered to receive 24 lashes for loitering and idling at work.



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