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[004538] [Convict Transportation] Richard Snook – Transportation Document. Ilchester: No Publisher, 1835. First Edition. Folio. Unbound. Ephemera. Good+. Single sided (though with docket title to reverse), part printed, part manuscript document, approximately 200mm x 320mm in size

Creased from old folds, lightly browned to edges, otherwise fairly bright and clean

Transportation order for Richard Snook, who “confessed to the Bill of Indictment found against him for breaking and entering a dwelling house and stealing Goods therein after a previous conviction for Felony”, for this he was “imprisoned in the Common Gaol for one calendar month and then be transported beyond the Seas, for his natural life”. Snook was held on the ‘Fortitude’ hulk at Chatham (see Campbell, The Intolerable Hulks, page 228), and then transported on the ‘Mary Ann’ on the 6th July, 1835 to New South Wales with three hundred and five other convicts. Once there, he apparently absconded a couple of times and received lashes, but married in 1839, and in 1848 received an official pardon and his sentence was commuted