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James UNDERWOOD

He was tried at Salisbury, Wiltshire on 11 March 1786 for stealing livestock (five sheep) with a value of 100 shillings. He was sentenced to transportation for 14 years having been originally sentenced to death, and left England on the Charlotte aged about 44 at that time (May 1787). His occupation was listed as shipwight.

Notes: Report from Dunkirk hulk was “tolerably decent and orderly”.Probably escaped in 1788.



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