[Editor: This brief untitled news item, about convicts bound for Australia, is an extract from the “London” section published in the The London Chronicle (London, England), 5 January 1792.]
[The convicts on board the Pitt, Manning, for Botany Bay]
They all recovered, only eight convicts and two children being lost. Three children have been born, and more were expected.
The convicts were in general remarkably well behaved; so much so, that several were permitted to assist in the navigation of the ship, and to attend the watering-parties in landing, without their fetters. The Pitt expected to arrive at Port Jackson about Christmas.
Source:
The London Chronicle (London, England), vol. LXXI no. 5519, 3-5 January 1792 [“From Tuesday, January 3, to Thursday, January 5, 1792”], p. 10 (2nd page of that issue), column 1 [scan #14]
Editor’s notes:
fetter = a chain, manacle, or shackle placed around a prisoner’s ankle; something which confines or restrains; to put fetters upon; to confine, restrain, or restrict (usually used in the plural form: fetters)
Pitt = a British ship which transported convicts to Australia, arriving in 1792 (commanded by Captain Edward Manning)
See: 1) “Convict Ship Pitt: 1792”, Free Settler or Felon
2) “Pitt voyage to New South Wales, Australia in 1791 with 403 passengers”, Convict Records [a list of all of the convicts who were transported to Australia on the convict ship Pitt]
3) “Details for the ship Pitt (1792)”, Claim a Convict [information about the convict ship Pitt, including a list of convicts transported]
4) ““Pitt” 1792 (Convict Ship) England to NSW, Australia”, Geni
5) “Portrait of the convict transport Pitt”, Silent World Foundation [a painting of the convict ship Pitt, by the English artist Thomas Whitcombe, dated 1793]
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