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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Australian History
• Sale Date:
  11 Dec 2017 ~ 10am
• Lot #:
  487
• Lot Description:
  TASMANIA: 1836 - 1852 range of convict-related documents
  including an 1836 deposition from Sorell; an 1837 letter from Richmond re the amount to be paid to an assigned servant; an April 1838 deposition from Sorell re embezzlement of funds by assigned servant James Smith; an 1842 document regarding “absconders”; a March 1842 Richmond Police Office document re a charge of misconduct by Thomas Lillycrap, who had been found in the bedroom in Thomas Marlow’s house with a female assigned servant; August 1842 from Richmond, instructions re prisoner Charles Quinn “three months hard labour, six weeks of which in chains”; a March 1844 letter from the Police Magistrate at Richmond regarding a mix-up in the names of convicts on capital charges, “These carelessnesses are very detrimental to the public service & much impede the cause of Justice...”; an 1845 request for a conditional pardon for James Lewis; an 1845 description of prisoner Michael Cairns who was granted his Certificate of Freedom in 1846; printed forms with mss descriptions of prisoners William Chamberlain (transported for 7 years for housebreaking) and Cupit Martin (7 years for poaching; and an 1849 letter about an absconding prisoner, (Holloway) “....Your despatch re Holloway disturbed my morning’s rest - if we can drive the fellow into the Eastern Marshes I calculate his reign will be a short one....” (12 items).
• Estimate:
  A$1,500 - 2,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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