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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 from John Carter, Mayor of Portsmouth reporting the number of prisoners awaiting...
Catalogue reference: HO 47/12/101
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1790 May 19
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Letter from John Carter, Mayor of Portsmouth reporting the number of prisoners awaiting transportation from Portsmouth Gaol. He refers to those able to be transported (sentences given below) and those not able to be moved even to the hulks. He also mentions that there is room for more felons on the hulk at Cumberland Fort.
1. James Arnold Davis, convicted April 1790, 3 years. In a poor state of health suffering from ruptures on both sides.
2. Cornelius Fernley/Fenley, convicted in January 1790, 7 years. In a poor state of health, 'in a Consumptive State' and in 'a decline + was invalided from the Navy'.
3. John Williams ('a black'), convicted in October 1789, 7 years. Carter requests a pardon for him as he has suffered a stroke ('almost immoveable') and asks he be sent a 'the workhouse'.
4. James Campbell, convicted in January 1790, 7 years.
5. William Godfrey, convicted in January 1790, 7 years.
6. David Lyons, convicted in January 1790, 3 years.
These are letters from James Marshall, surgeon; James Wilkes, assistant surgeon, Porsmouth Gaol and Stephen Barney, Clerk of the Peace for the Borough of Portsmouth, on the health of Davis, Fernley/Fenley and Williams.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Folios 391-398.
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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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