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John FERGUSON

He was tried at Exeter, Devon on 20 March 1786 for stealing material with a value of 49 shillings. He was sentenced to transportation for 7 years and left England on the Charlotte aged about 28 at that time (May 1787). He had no occupation recorded.

Notes: Report from Dunkirk hulk was “tolerably decent and orderly”.Received 100 lashes in July 1789 for writing an obscene and scandalous paper.



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