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Transportation
Stovin Baker was transported on the Earl Spencer, departing 30th Apr 1813 and arriving 9th Oct 1813 with 203 passengers.
Built 1803, London - Thames, 672 ton required 56 crew and mounted with 16 guns.
Earl Spencer (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 96 |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
1828 Census Index. Steven Baker, TL El. Spencer, 1813, Life, protestant, Farmer, Baulkham Hills district.
Colonial Secretary Index. BAKER, Stovin. Per "Earl Spencer", 1813 1813 Oct 14 On list of convicts disembarked from "Earl Spencer" & forwarded to Revd Samuel Marsden at Parramatta for distribution; listed as Stephen (Reel 6002; 4/3491 p.561) 1817 Servant of John Goode, settler of Seven Hills. Petition for mitigation of sentence (Fiche 3174; 4/1850 p.9)
Lincolnshire Lammas Assizes.  PRISONERS. STOVIN BAKER, (aged 26,) late of Great Steeping, laborer, was indicted for stealing ten sheep, the property of Mr. Charles Allenby Walton, grazier, Firsby. Vincent Marwood, shepherd to Mr. Walton, deposed, that on Sunday morning the 7th of June last, he missed ten sheep (part of his master's flock) out of a field in Firsby called the Out Field. When he returned home he informed his master the circumstance. On the Tuesday morning following, the witness found eight of the sheep in the same field ; he identified them their marks. George Maltby said, that on the 6th of June last  He purchased ten sheep at Horncastle, for 1£. 11s. d. each, of person who stated his name to be Hardy, and that he lived at Hagworthingham : the witness paid for them on the spot, and at that time knew no more of the person whom purchased them, than he himself represented. On the same day the witness sold the sheep to William Crust of Spilsby, jobber, at £l. 12s. 0d. a head. The witness saw the prisoner again five days after (on the 11th), and speke positively as to his being the person of whom he had purchased the sheep on the 6th. William Crust stated, that on the 6th of June last he saw Stovin Baker, the prisoner, in company with a person unknown to the witness, driving seventeen hog sheep into Horncastle market. the witness asking the price ten he-hogs, the stranger  said 40s. head, which he (Crust) refused to give. he witness, however, the same day, purchased the ten he-hogs of Maltby for 1£. 12s. d. per head ; and the Monday following (the 8th) disposed of them again to Mr. Thomas Cash, of Halton Holgate,  grazier, at 1£ 14s 0d. piece. Since that period the same he-hogs had been challenged by Mr. Walton. Thomas Cash, proved, that on Monday the June he purchased ten he-hogs the preceding witness for 1£ 7s. On the evening the same day missed eight of them from his farm-yard—which eight were afterwards found Mr. Walton in the Out Field Firsby, and claimed by as his property.  Thomas Oiling said, that on the of June, by virtue of a warrant under the hand and seal of Edward Walls, Clerk, he apprehended the prisoner on suspicion stealing ten sheep the property the prosecutor. On being asked whether were guilty of the felony, the prisoner did not deny it, but attempted release himself from the hold the witness at Spilsby.  The case for the prosecution being here ended, some evidence was produced of the previous good conduct the prisoner. Mr. Walton, the prosecutor, spoke favorably of his character. Air. Justice Grabs then, with much clearness recapitulated the evidence. He pointed out to the Jury, in the course of his summing up, those circumstances which bore strongly against the prisoner's but also  noted with much earnestness the points which were favorable —observing that where any doubt  arose, the preponderance should certainly be on the side of mercy. The Jury, after short consultation, returned a verdict of guilty. —The prisoner was on Tuesday sentenced to Death.   Stamford Mercury, 17 July 1812.
His name was Stovin not Slovin. He stole ten sheep out of a field at Firsby, Lincolnshire. He died at Paramatta.