331
An 1817 TRANSPORTATION OF 
CONVICTS FROM FORT WILLIAM, 
BENGAL: A three sheet hand-written 
document, addressed to C.M. Ricketts, 
Chief Secretary to the Government in 
Calcutta, providing details of sixteen 
convicts to be transported to various 
destinations or otherwise dealt 
with. The names, crimes, period of 
transportation are all recorded. Seven 
of the prisoners, named and identified 
as “Hindoos” are to be executed by 
hanging but have their sentences 
commuted to transportation for life 
to Bencoolen, on the west coast of 
Sumatra. The same sentence and 
fate is applied to Sheik Ameer, 
“a Mussulman” [Moslem]. The 
two “European” convicts, 
John Henry Jones and John 
Smith are to be transported to 
New South Wales for seven 
years and 14 years respectively.
John Henry Jones was 
transported aboard the Hunter, in 
1817. A Bengal Mail coachman, he had 
been found guilty of larceny. John Smith 
arrived on the same boat, having also 
been found guilty of larceny.
$1,000–1,500
332
“ROLL OF A SOLDIER WHO HAS 
NOW BEEN SENTENCED TO 
TRANSPORTATION TO THE COLONY 
OF NEW SOUTH WALES”.
A printed document, completed in 
manuscript at Fort William, Bengal, and 
dated December 1837, regarding Private 
Henry Findley, 62nd Reg’t.
He was transported to Van Diemen’s 
Land in 1838 aboard the Emerald Isle.
$300–500 ❖
333
17th June 1808 manuscript 
memorandum, single sheet, instructing 
Captain William Pryce Cumby of HMS 
Polyphemus, to accompany and “take 
under your protection” the convict 
transport ship Admiral Gambier and 
Eolus” (also spelt Aeolus) then en route 
for New South Wales with 280 convicts 
aboard. The document is headed 
“Royal William”, which was the major 
victualling depot of the Royal Navy in 
Plymouth.
$200–250 ❖
334
An antique 56lb. weight with broad 
arrow and crown mark, 19th century.
$250–350
335
An antique 28lb weight stamped with 
broad arrow and crown mark, together 
with a 7lb weight with broad arrow 
mark, 19th century, (2 items).
$250–350 ❖
338
Joseph C. HARVIE,
“The Convict Hulk “Success”: the story 
of her life, and the lives of those who 
filled her cells...”,
[Melbourne : Spectator Publishing 
Co., 1891, 1st ed.], 77pp with 
illustrations.
$150–200 ❖
336
Convict cell door bolt, 19th century,
56cm wide.
$200–300 ❖
337
An antique turned timber truncheon, 
19th century,
45cm long
$120–200 ❖
327
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