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Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board/in:...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/30/130
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- HO 17/30/130
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1825 Sept 30
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Description (What the record is about)
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Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board/in: The Antelope at Bermuda.
Names and details of prisoners:
Francis Lewis: aged 18 convicted at Shrewsbury on 20 March 1822 of grand larceny. Initial sentence seven years transportation.
James Farmer: aged 19 convicted at London on 23 February 1822 of felony. Initial sentence seven years transportation.
William Nailsmith: aged 22 convicted at Stirling on 15 September 1821 of felony. Initial sentence seven years transportation.
Christopher Watkins: aged 24 convicted at Middlesex on 9 January 1822 of petty larceny. Initial sentence: seven years transportation;
Thomas Hollingsworth: aged 22 convicted at Salford on 21 January 1822 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years transportation.
Gaoler's name: Lieutenant Henry Hire R N Overseer and Thomas Ellison , Chaplain.
Grounds for clemency (Recommendation Details): Good conduct and orderly behaviour.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Dl 47
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Transportation
- Pardons
- Crime
- Americas
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14463067/
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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