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Voyage
Transportation
Daniel Barnett was transported on the Friendship, departing 13th May 1787 and arriving 21st Jan 1788 with 107 passengers.
This convict ship, being 274 tons and 75 feet long was one of the light weight ships in the fllet and was skippered by Master Francis Walton. Built in Scarborough in 1784, she carried 76 male and 21 female convicts. During her return voyage to England her crew came down with scurvy and with insufficient crew to man her, she was scuttled in the straights of Macassar. The survivors were transferred to the Alexander.
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Claims
"5 x Great Grandfather"
"6x Great Grandfather (Slack family tree)"
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Convict Notes
cost of crime 10 shrillings
His crime was worth 10 shrillings.
Daniel Barnett was tried at Winchester, Hampshire on 29 July 1783 for stealing iron grapplings with a value of 10 shillings. He was sentenced to transportation for 7 years and left England on the Friendship aged about 30 at that time (May 1787). His occupation was listed as waterman. He died in 1823. Guilty of return from transport following the Mercury mutiny. Report from Dunkirk hulk was “troublesome at times”.