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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Colonial History
• Sale Date:
  28 Jun 2016
• Lot #:
  219
• Lot Description:
  CONDITIONAL PARDON FOR CONVICT WILLIAM SWEENEY
  1849 (January 13) pardon, headed VAN DIEMEN’S LAND, granted to William Sweeney of Ireland, on the condition that “he shall not during the said period for which the said sentence was pronounced return to of be found within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”; signed by Sir William Thomas Denison, Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Van Diemen’s Land; on vellum and dated 9 years after Sweeney’s arrival in Hobart Town aboard the convict ship “Egyptian”. With the seal of the Colony.
• Notes:
  Sweeney had received a sentence of 10 Years Transportation at Limerick in July 1840. The Egyptian took 115 days for the journey from Dublin, arriving at Hobart in December 1840. His crime was “cow stealing”.
• Estimate:
  A$200 - 300
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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