b'62Joseph Solomon had been sentenced to be transported for life at the Surrey Assizes, arriving aboard Indian in December 1810. Abraham Elias found guilty at the Devon Assizes, had been transported for fourteen years, arriving aboard Shipley in April 1817.$500750 4051824 - AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO TICKET-OF-LEAVERS FOR THE RENTAL OF FARMLANDJames Dorr [or Dore], one of 200 convicts transported on the Surrey in January 1814 had been granted a ticket-of-leave by 1820 and had married in 1817 (a fellow convict, Mary Lyons from Limerick, who had arrived in 1811]. The present document, an indenture dated November 1824 formalizes an agreement between him and a fellow, ex-convict, John Murphy (probably one of 338 convicts transported on the Coromandel and Experiment in November 1803) for the use of farming land containing Forty acres situate and lying in the District of Kurry Jong in the County of Northumberland.for the full term of Five years. Murphy applies his x, Dorr signs for himself and the whole is witnessed by one, Alexr Fraser.$200300406JOHN BULL [Newspaper] January 18, 1824405 [London, 8pp]Includes a full page report titled The Tread Mill being a 403 comprehensive coverage of the evidence from prisoners who had been punished on this instrument of torture, as presented A THIRD FLEET CONVICT, ROSAMOND SPARROW, ONE OFto the official investigation conducted by Magistrate Briscoe of THE FEW WOMEN SENT TO NORFOLK ISLAND Surrey.A commercial document prepared on behalf of Rosmond$6080 Sparrow, in anticipation of the sale of seven acres and half of Land for Forty Pounds, to James PAGET. The land is described407as having been granted unto James KIRBY, by Govr Hunter, Octor 18th, 1799. JOHN MATTHEW PITMAN (PITTMAN), ONE OF 200 Rosamond (Rose) SPARROW had been sentenced to sevenCONVICTS TRANSPORTED ON THE SURREY, January 1814, years transportation for stealing, with her mother, sundry articlesACQUIRES LAND IN THE KURRAJONG DISTRICTof linen and drapery goods. Both women arrived in Sydney inSentenced to deathfor horse stealing, Pitmans sentence was 1791 aboard the Mary Ann, as part of the Third Fleet. In 1792commuted to transportation for life and he arrived in New South Rose married Joseph Hatton. They separated in 1795 after sheWales in July 1814. By 1824 he had been granted a ticket-of-stabbed him, apparently in a fit of rage. In October 1799 she wasleave and had married Mary Sutherland, who had arrived free sent to Norfolk Island for stealing clothing from John Archer andin 1808. The present document is an agreement between John she appears to have been there until 1806. In the 1814, 1822,Ash and John Pittman for the latter to acquire some Thirty 1825, 1828 musters she was shown as living in the householdAcres more or less lying and being situate at the Kurrajong of James Oliver at Windsor. She was still alive in 1834 as, in thatDistrict.for the sum of Fifteen pounds in Spanish Dollars at year, she contested Joseph Hattons right to inherit her formerfive shillingseach. The agreement is signed by John Nash husbands property. and on behalf of Pittman by his wife, Mary Sutherland. They had James KIRBY, a Private with the 5th Plymouth Company, servedtwo children and when he died in 1863, at the age of 76, Pittman some time in Sydney after arriving on the Alexander with thewas buried at Richmond on the Hawkesbury.First Fleet, before being sent on active duty to Norfolk Island,$200300 where he met Rose Sparrow.$300500408GEORGE CUPITT: WHEN IS A CONVICT NOT A CONVICT? 404 WHEN HES A TROOPER.ABRAHAM ELIAS APPOINTED TO ADMINISTER THEA printed letter from the Colonial Secretarys Office, 11th ESTATE OF JOSEPH SOLOMON - 1824 November, 1830 to GEORGE CUPITT of South Creek, via 14th May 1824 vellum document with intact seal, titledWindsor (New South Wales) in which he is invited to make Administration of the Goods Chattelsof Solomon Josephsa selection of land, .you having executed the necessary late of Windsor, deced - to - Abraham Elias admor and signedEngagement [and] that you will reside thereon and cultivate by the judge and sealed in the Supreme Court of Civil Judicatureit during the Period of Seven Years.followed by a listing of for the Territory of New South Wales. available properties from which he was to make his selection of a Small Grant and signed by Thomas Harington, the Such a document was required when a person dies withoutunofficial Assistant Colonial Secretary.a will in the Territory. It appears that Solomon and Elias, asGeorge Cupitt [1777 - 1846] had enlisted in the 17th fellow (former?) convicts and the fact that they both had Jewish(Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot on 14 Feb 1792. He and backgrounds, resulted in Elias taking on the responsibilities42 other privates deserted. Cupitt was arrested and tried for imposed by the Court, which included liquidating the availabledesertion. He was sentenced to 7 years at Savoy Military Prison assets to meet any outstanding debts of the deceased.in London. At the time, the government was recruiting for volunteers to join the NSW Regiment. Cupitt volunteered,'