Voyage to Sydney in the Ship Hillsborough, 1798-1799: And a Description of the ColonyWilliam Noah (1754-1827), one of three hundred convicts transported to Sydney, New South Wales in 1778-1799, was a native of Shropshire, England. He married twice (once in England and once in Sydney), and received an absolute pardon in 1818. The book includes a list of the officers and seamen of the Hillsborough, and a list of the convicts (subdivided by the English prison from which they were transported). |
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Publishers Note | 6 |
Saild from Portsmouth | 20 |
Voyage from the Cape | 48 |
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