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Item (folio 144) extracted from HO 47/14/23
Catalogue reference: HO 47/14/23/1
Date: 1792
Item (folio 144) extracted from HO 47/14/23
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Letter of James Adair, Recorder of London, to Lord Sydney submitting a list of convicts...
Catalogue reference: HO 47/3/36
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This record is about the Letter of James Adair, Recorder of London, to Lord Sydney submitting a list of convicts... dating from 1785 May 3 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 47/3/36
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1785 May 3
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Description (What the record is about)
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Letter of James Adair, Recorder of London, to Lord Sydney submitting a list of convicts sentenced and conveying his request for certain court orders to be prepared with the permission of the Privy Council 'declaring' and 'directing' the destination of transportation for these convicts. This list is a selection of prisoners who for their respective cases and 'demeanour' in prison are fit to be treated with severity.
1. Convicts already sentenced for transportation to Africa, for which new Privy Council Orders are not required
14 years: Uzziel Baruh [?]
7 years: James Bryan Cullen, James Clarke alias Hosier and William Young.
2. Convicts sentenced for transportation beyond the seas for 7 years
Luke Rogers, Andrew Simms, Alexander Macdonald, Robert Freeman, Dennis Hayes, Edward Humphreys and George Francisco.
3. Court Orders of transportation were required from the Privy Council to alter the previously decided destination from America to Africa for the term of 7 years
James Gardner, William Cole, James Jackson, Robert Nunn, Nathaniel Lucas, John Richardson, John Romaine, Edward Jones and Samuel Richardson.
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Folios 118-121.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals
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