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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.
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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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