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Samuel BARSBY

He was tried at Exeter, Devon on 20 March 1786 for stealing material with a value of 40 shillings. He was sentenced to transportation for 7 years having been originally sentenced to death, and left England on the Charlotte aged about 23 at that time (May 1787). He had no occupation recorded.

Notes: Partner in crime Samuel Pigott.Report from Dunkirk hulk was “tolerably decent and orderly”.Flogged several times: 11 February 1788 sentenced to receive150 lashes for abuse and striking Marines, 50 lashes for threatening Catherine Prior, and again in January and March 1789 for insolence and drunkenness.



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