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Daniel/Janel GORDON
He
was tried at
Winchester, Hampshire
on
5 April 1785 for stealing clothing with a value of 7 shillings.
He
was sentenced to transportation for
7 years
and left England on the
Alexander
aged about 47 at that time (May 1787).
He had no occupation recorded. He died in 1818.
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Described as “a black”.On 12 September 1788, saved Lydia Munro from being raped by a soldier. On 29 February 1789, received a sentence of death, but reprieved, for theft of wine. On 19 August 1789, tried for theft of food, but found to be “not in a state of Mind to be put on his Trial”, however many prisoners “gave him credit for the ability with which he had acted his part”. His partner in crime was Hannah Smith.
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