b'63having been given a choice of spending 7 years in prison ormarriage and had another 10 children afterwards. Edward died at volunteering for the NSW Corps. With his acceptance of theKurrajong, NSW in 1859.posting he received a conditional pardon on condition that heElizabeth COVERLY had been born in 1815 at Parramatta; she never return to the UK. He travelled with his wife to the colonyoutlived her first husband by 20 years and her second, James aboard the ship Ganges which arrived on 2 June 1797. DuringOverton, by a year, passing away in 1879.the journey records show Cupitt was a guard to the Irish convicts$200300 on board and was paid for 1 shilling per day for his service. It is also recorded that he took part in quashing the Irish rebellion, the Battle of Vinegar Hill on 4 Mar 1804. He retired from the411regiment on 25 Sept. 1823 aged 46 after 32 years of service. LABAN WHITE, ONE OF 160 CONVICTS TRANSPORTED ON After his retirement, Cupitt chose a land grant in lieu of aTHE ELIZA, JULY 1822pension. Governor Brisbanes letter of October 1823 grantingAn indenture, dated January 1837 by which Laban White agrees 100 acres within surveyed lands was lost and it took until Juneto rent to James Upton, for a period of three years, a piece 1830 after much correspondence that Governor Darling grantedof land by Estimation Twenty Two Acres more or less being him 100 acres in the County of Castlereagh, bounded on thea Portion of Cornwallis Estatein the District of Windsor; east by the road leading from Richmond to the Cowpastures,signed by White and Upton.with Rickabys Creek meandering through it. It was known asOn his death, the SMH published an obituary: Late Mr Laban Cupitts Farm in an area known as Londonderry. He receivedWhiteOn Friday night last, this worthy old resident of Windsor another grant of 80 acres, the subject of the present document. died, at the venerable age of 80. He had lived at Windsor for In the interim George purchased 32 rods of land from Rev.upwards of forty years. In his early career he successfully carried Samuel Marsden for 12/4/6 in George Street Windsor. Thison business as a chemist and druggist, and subsequently as parcel of land remained with the family for 157 years until soldauctioneer. Retiring from business, he filled several public offices by Jack Holman in 1981. The Cupitt Farm produced wheat forwith credit and satisfaction.the colony. Interestingly, what was omitted from this brief summary, was $300500the fact that White had arrived in New South Wales as a convict. He had been convicted of embezzlement at Bristol Quarter 409 Sessions and sentenced to be transported for a term of 14 years.The Will of Paul Randall, February 25th,1832; probably$200300 in Randalls own hand & signed by him, with witnesses signatures. 412Randall had been granted the licence of an inn at RichmondCONVICTION Notice, Launceston, Van Diemens Land, 1838, in 1819. The inn was called the Black Horse Prince but it wasfoolscap page convicting the Launceston shop keeper Isaiah commonly known as The Black Horse Inn. Many of the businessMorris of using fraudulent weights and scales whilst selling affairs of the Hawkesbury region were conducted & settled atbread, signed by Justice of the Peace DARCY WENTWORTH the Black Horse Inn. It is the Inn and the land on which it stands,Esquire.which are the major assets referred to in the document in whichFramed and glazed,he bequeaths to his daughter and son-in-law. 47 x 35cm overallPaul Randall was a convict who arrived in NSW in 1791 on board$120200 the Admiral Barrington. Back in England, his brother William had been involved in a robbery, while his wife Mary was also413implicated. Mary arrived on the Bellona in 1793. It appears their daughter Margaret (born in 1799) took over the operationJAMES HAYNES of Launceston six months conviction for of the Black Horse in the late 1820s leading the hotel into itsunlawfully obtaining a pair of boots, Police Office document, heyday. Margaret had married in 1820 to Dr Henry Seymour,20th July, 1869, signed by Justice of the Peace THOMAS a convict who had arrived in 1817. Following the death of herMASON and CHARLES JAMES WEEDON. Single page blue parents, Mary (1832) and Paul (1834), Margaret inherited thepaper document.inn. Her parents are both buried at St. Peters, Richmond. It wassheet size 21.5 x 33.5cm,during the 1830s that Margaret had constructed, in Windsor$120200 Street, a more established two-story building. It is thought that the original single-storey residence remained adjoining the new414structure and certainly surviving photographs correspond with this theory. Margaret ran the Black Horse for forty years. ARTIST UNKNOWN $200300(19TH CENTURY, AUSTRALIAN),Isle Of The Dead, Port Arthur, Van Diemens Land,410 oil on board,A CONVICT MARRIAGE AT WINDSOR, AUGUST 1835. 31 x 47cmA certificate recording the marriage of Edward Mitchell (aged$120200 35?) to Elizabeth Coverly (aged 20) at the Presbyterian Church at Portland Head in New South Wales. The document has been completed by the the chaplain, signed with an x by each of the parties and witnessed two others.Edward MITCHELL was born in Norfolk and was transported for stealing a coat valued at 25 shillings. At the time Edward was 20 years old, 54 tall, brown hair, hazel eyes, fair complexion. He was assigned to W. Bailey in 1823 and later, to John Single at Penrith. Mitchell absconded from John Single and was recaptured in March 1824sentenced to 25 lashes and to be sent to Emu Plains Convict Farm.In October 1826 he was granted 40 acres at Kurrajong.By 1833 he was living with Elizabeth Coverly/Lordher step-father was James Lord Edward and Elizabeth had 2 children before their'