Description

[004540] [Convict Transportation]. Henry Day – Transportation Document. Wallingford: No Publisher, 1835. First Edition. Folio. Unbound. Ephemera. Good. Single sided (though with docket title to reverse), part printed, part manuscript document, approximately 210mm x 335mm in size

Creased from old folds, some chipping to edges and corners, Japanese paper repairs to top right hand corner and a couple of folds, lightly browned, but fairly clean

Transportation document for Henry Day, who “knowingly and designedly by a false pretence obtained from George Palmer of the same parish Ironmongers twelve knives twelve forks and a copper kettle … with an intent to cheat and defraud him”. He was also convicted of similarly taking an umbrella from a linen draper, along with other offences, and was initially gaoled in Reading, before being transported for seven years with three hundred and five other convicts on the ‘Mary Ann’, leaving Sheerness on the 6th July 1835, and arriving in New South Wales on the eleventh of November 1835

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