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Thomas BARRETT
He
was tried at
Old Bailey, London
on
11 September 1782 for stealing household goods with a value of 73 shillings.
He
was sentenced to transportation for
life
and left England on the
Charlotte
aged about 29 at that time (May 1787).
He had no occupation recorded. He died in 1788.
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Ringleader of the Mercury mutiny, however he had intervened to save the steward’s life and prevented the Captain’s ear from being cut off. As a result he was reprieved from a death sentence and only found guilty of return from transport. Report from Dunkirk hulk was “in general tolerably well behaved but troublesome at times”.Hanged for theft of food.
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