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Previous|1...343536373839...156|Next Lot #348 FROM SLAVE-OWNERS IN GRENADA TO POLICE MAGISTRATE IN HOBART - Letters to William Tarleton, 1839 to 1847: A recently discovered group of six outer covers and entries, addressed to William Tarleton from various family members and associates: View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot #349 A receipt dated 25 June 1819, issued by the Chief Officer at Calcutta acknowledging receipt from "on board the Ship St. Michael....the following ten European Convicts, for New South Wales, with one pr of leg irons and one pr of Handcuffs for each, with locks and keys". Then follow the names, which include George Laurent, Thomas Pembroke and James Lee, who are all recorded arriving in VDL on 9th Nov.1819. The other names listed (James Holmes, Michael O'Brien, John Howlett, etc.) View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusCLOSED! Lot #350 THE PRINCIPAL SUPERINTENDENT AT LAUNCESTON REPORTS ON TWO ABSCONDERS - December 1825. 23rd Dec.1825 letter from John Lakeland, Superintendent at Launceston, to A.W. H. Humphrey, Superintendent of Police advising that two prisoners - Michael Moven and James Walmsley had absconded from the public works at Launceston, and "cannot now be found." Michael Moven had arrived in March 1817 aboard "Sir William Bensley", sentenced to transportation for life. James Walmsley had arrived in December 1821 abo View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #351 27th January 1851 letter from The Under Secretary to the Government of Bengal (Dalrymple) to The Sheriff of Calcutta, with details of "the ten European Convicts under sentence of transportation" informing him that passage "has been procured per Barque 'Alibi', which vessel is now ready to sail for Van Diemen's Land." A list of "Bengal Convicts" and "Bombay Convicts" is provided. The Barque "Alibi" arrived in Van Diemen's Land on 25th May 1851 with just sixteen convicts onboard. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot #352 SARAH ANN HILL - FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER AND TRANSPORTED FOR THE TERM OF HER NATURAL LIFE: Two court documents recording the proceedings at York Assizes in December 1851 at which Hill was found guilty of killing her new-born baby and leaving the body in a bonnet-box on Wakefield Railway Station. She was initially sentenced to death by hanging but there was a huge outcry and, as this document further records, the sentence was commuted to "her being Transported beyond the Seas....". The second docu View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #353 A SLIGHT MISUNDERSTANDING?. A manuscript letter dated 19th Nov.1846 to Mr. Thomas, Under Sheriff of Calcutta, explaining that "I beg to return this letter to Captain Charlesworth which he refuses to receive as contrary to the Engagement entered into with Government which was to convey the Convicts alluded to Sydney and not to Van Diemen's Land.." View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #354 CONVICTS & TRANSPORTATION: Acts of Parliament & Reports: 1812 - 1861 (7 items; approx. 500pp) View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #355 JOHN HENRY CAPPER: Two Reports of John Henry Capper, Esq. Superintendent of Ships and Vessels Employed for the Confinement of Offenders Under Sentence of Transportation: dated 16th July 1825.[London, House of Commons. 1826.] 11pp. Folio. British Parliamentary Paper. HC36. Contains lists of convict hulks at Portsmouth, Gosport, Sheerness, Chatham, Woolwich & Deptford with numbers of convicts. Summaries of work performed, health etc. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #356 POLICE OFFICE HOBART. Single page manuscript letter dated 8th April 1835 from the Police Office in Hobart to the Chief Police Magistrate in Hobart Town, framed and mounted, 32 x 19cm visual, 47 x 33cm overall View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #357 TASMANIAN CONVICT PHOTOGRAPH: A carte-de-visite, annotated verso: "28. Alexander Woods, per London. Taken at Port Arthur 1874". Alexander Wood was one of 250 convicts transported onboard the "London", arriving in Van Diemen's Land on 9th July 1844. He had been convicted and court martialled at St. Johns, Newfoundland, and sentenced to 14 years transportation. The prison photograph was taken 30 years after his arrival. 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