QGR4/29

Minute Book of the Visiting Justices' weekly meetings [second Volume]. Contains information on prisoners' numbers, health, and conduct, officers' conduct, contracts for supplies, those awaiting transportation, etc. Page 29 includes the following:

3rd October 1825

From: 1825 To: 1825

Philip Hunt. The Gaoler reported that John Holder, a deserter is in a most dangerous state of typhus fever and that it is probable he may die this day. Five more prisoners are ill of typhus.

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Hunt, Philip,
Holder, John

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