QGR4/258

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 258 includes the following:

15 August 1831

From: 1831 To: 1831

Philip Hunt, Thomas Barber. The Gaoler reported that he had conveyed the six convicts - Richard Hooton, Daniel Deacon, Richard Dillingham, Samuel Hartwell, James Dearing and John Atkinson sentenced to transportation for the term of their natural ives to t he Justitia Hulk, lying off Woolwich in the River Thames and delivered them in safety to the custody of the 2nd Mate of the said Hulk, in proof of which he produced the receipt of the said mate. The Keeper said that the above prisoners conducted themselves quietly during the said journey. In reference to a minute made in this book omn Monday 8th of this month [QGR4/257] Dr Hunt reports that he wrote on the subject of it to the Mayor of Cambridge and that he has received from the Deputy Town Clerk and answer dated cambridge August 13th 1831 containing the following passages: [see QGR4/259]

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Hunt, Philip,
Barber, Thomas,
Dearing, James,
Hooton, Richard,
Atkinson, John,
Dillingham, Richard,
Deacon, Daniel,
Warner,
Payne

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