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Australia.- [Escaped convicts from Botany Bay]. Memorandum, "Regard.g 3 Runaways from N.S. Wales brought round from Batavia on bd. the Nautilus - Theophilus Mitchell, Thomas Roper, Henry Heatley," manuscript, 1½pp. with conjugate blank, docket on blank, folds, browned, some folds torn and repaired with paper, other tears along edges with loss of a few words but not affecting legibility, circular ink stamp of the Webster collection with cancellation stamp, folio, [c. 1818].
*** "Lieut. Barnes... first officer of the... Cruizer Nautilus - Which vessel was at Batavia in June last - When we arrived there we found the Surry in the Roads with three escapees who had come round... from Botany Bay... . It was intended that these men should have been sent round to Bombay on board the... Aurora which was then also lying at Batavia... . In consequence however of our coming into the Roads the men were transferred... from the Surry to us. [There] is no doubt of these men having come round from Botany Bay - They were brought on board... by an officer of the Surry who informed me they had been found secreted in the Surry till several days after they had left B. Bay." Docket at end, "Mitchell states Captain Raine [Thomas Raine (1793-1860), mariner and merchant, captain of the Surry 1816-23] of the Surry can depose to his Mitchell's having had his certificate of discharge in the part of his being a free man in Port Jackson."
Theophilus Mitchell (b. 1786), was born in Kingston-upon-Hull, the son of a chemist. In 1811 he was declared bankrupt, and in 1812, described as a surgeon was convicted of fraud and sentenced to seven years transportation. He was admitted to the Retribution hulk at Woolwich on 16th November 1812, and transferred to the General Hewitt on 13th August 1814. In September 1815 only about nineteen months after he arrived, the Sydney Gazette reported the marriage of Mitchell to Miss Crowder. Mitchell absconded from the colony and was apprehended in India in 1818. He was embarked on the Greyhound to return to New South Wales, however he managed to escape while the ship was at Batavia.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/21b783d0-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/e8e9f891-6191-ee11-8178-002248070a4a.webp "168
Australia.- [Escaped convicts from Botany Bay]. Memorandum, \"Regard.g 3 Runaways from N.S. Wales brought round from Batavia on bd. the Nautilus - Theophilus Mitchell, Thomas Roper, Henry Heatley,\" manuscript, 1½pp. with conjugate blank, docket on blank, folds, browned, some folds torn and repaired with paper, other tears along edges with loss of a few words but not affecting legibility, circular ink stamp of the Webster collection with cancellation stamp, folio, [c. 1818].
*** \"Lieut. Barnes... first officer of the... Cruizer Nautilus - Which vessel was at Batavia in June last - When we arrived there we found the Surry in the Roads with three escapees who had come round... from Botany Bay... . It was intended that these men should have been sent round to Bombay on board the... Aurora which was then also lying at Batavia... . In consequence however of our coming into the Roads the men were transferred... from the Surry to us. [There] is no doubt of these men having come round from Botany Bay - They were brought on board... by an officer of the Surry who informed me they had been found secreted in the Surry till several days after they had left B. Bay.\" Docket at end, \"Mitchell states Captain Raine [Thomas Raine (1793-1860), mariner and merchant, captain of the Surry 1816-23] of the Surry can depose to his Mitchell's having had his certificate of discharge in the part of his being a free man in Port Jackson.\"
Theophilus Mitchell (b. 1786), was born in Kingston-upon-Hull, the son of a chemist. In 1811 he was declared bankrupt, and in 1812, described as a surgeon was convicted of fraud and sentenced to seven years transportation. He was admitted to the Retribution hulk at Woolwich on 16th November 1812, and transferred to the General Hewitt on 13th August 1814. In September 1815 only about nineteen months after he arrived, the Sydney Gazette reported the marriage of Mitchell to Miss Crowder. Mitchell absconded from the colony and was apprehended in India in 1818. He was embarked on the Greyhound to return to New South Wales, however he managed to escape while the ship was at Batavia.")
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Australia.- [Escaped convicts from Botany Bay]. Memorandum, "Regard.g 3 Runaways from N.S. Wales brought round from Batavia on bd. the Nautilus - Theophilus Mitchell, Thomas Roper, Henry Heatley," manuscript, 1½pp. with conjugate blank, docket on blank, folds, browned, some folds torn and repaired with paper, other tears along edges with loss of a few words but not affecting legibility, circular ink stamp of the Webster collection with cancellation stamp, folio, [c. 1818].
⁂ "Lieut. Barnes... first officer of the... Cruizer Nautilus - Which vessel was at Batavia in June last - When we arrived there we found the Surry in the Roads with three escapees who had come round... from Botany Bay... . It was intended that these men should have been sent round to Bombay on board the... Aurora which was then also lying at Batavia... . In consequence however of our coming into the Roads the men were transferred... from the Surry to us. [There] is no doubt of these men having come round from Botany Bay - They were brought on board... by an officer of the Surry who informed me they had been found secreted in the Surry till several days after they had left B. Bay." Docket at end, "Mitchell states Captain Raine [Thomas Raine (1793-1860), mariner and merchant, captain of the Surry 1816-23] of the Surry can depose to his Mitchell's having had his certificate of discharge in the part of his being a free man in Port Jackson."
Theophilus Mitchell (b. 1786), was born in Kingston-upon-Hull, the son of a chemist. In 1811 he was declared bankrupt, and in 1812, described as a surgeon was convicted of fraud and sentenced to seven years transportation. He was admitted to the Retribution hulk at Woolwich on 16th November 1812, and transferred to the General Hewitt on 13th August 1814. In September 1815 only about nineteen months after he arrived, the Sydney Gazette reported the marriage of Mitchell to Miss Crowder. Mitchell absconded from the colony and was apprehended in India in 1818. He was embarked on the Greyhound to return to New South Wales, however he managed to escape while the ship was at Batavia.
Lot 168
Australia.- [Escaped convicts from Botany Bay]. Memorandum, "Regard.g 3 Runaways from N.S. Wales brought round from Batavia on bd. the Natilus - Theophilus Mitchell, Thomas Roper, Henry Heatley," manuscript, 1½pp. with conjugate blank, docket on blank, folds, browned, some folds torn and repaired with paper, other tears along edges with loss of a few words but not affecting legibility, circular ink stamp of the Webster Collection with cancellation stamp, folio, [c. 1818].
Hammer Price: £550
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Australia.- [Escaped convicts from Botany Bay]. Memorandum, "Regard.g 3 Runaways from N.S. Wales brought round from Batavia on bd. the Nautilus - Theophilus Mitchell, Thomas Roper, Henry Heatley," manuscript, 1½pp. with conjugate blank, docket on blank, folds, browned, some folds torn and repaired with paper, other tears along edges with loss of a few words but not affecting legibility, circular ink stamp of the Webster collection with cancellation stamp, folio, [c. 1818].
⁂ "Lieut. Barnes... first officer of the... Cruizer Nautilus - Which vessel was at Batavia in June last - When we arrived there we found the Surry in the Roads with three escapees who had come round... from Botany Bay... . It was intended that these men should have been sent round to Bombay on board the... Aurora which was then also lying at Batavia... . In consequence however of our coming into the Roads the men were transferred... from the Surry to us. [There] is no doubt of these men having come round from Botany Bay - They were brought on board... by an officer of the Surry who informed me they had been found secreted in the Surry till several days after they had left B. Bay." Docket at end, "Mitchell states Captain Raine [Thomas Raine (1793-1860), mariner and merchant, captain of the Surry 1816-23] of the Surry can depose to his Mitchell's having had his certificate of discharge in the part of his being a free man in Port Jackson."
Theophilus Mitchell (b. 1786), was born in Kingston-upon-Hull, the son of a chemist. In 1811 he was declared bankrupt, and in 1812, described as a surgeon was convicted of fraud and sentenced to seven years transportation. He was admitted to the Retribution hulk at Woolwich on 16th November 1812, and transferred to the General Hewitt on 13th August 1814. In September 1815 only about nineteen months after he arrived, the Sydney Gazette reported the marriage of Mitchell to Miss Crowder. Mitchell absconded from the colony and was apprehended in India in 1818. He was embarked on the Greyhound to return to New South Wales, however he managed to escape while the ship was at Batavia.
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