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Transportation
John Bayliss 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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In some records it incorrectly appears that this John Bayliss was granted 200 acres of land around the Richmond area. This was actually a grant to a soldier John Bayliss (200 acres) who came out on the Active in 1791. John and his brother Joseph were with the NSW Corps but as they came from Staffordshire I wonder whether John Busley used John Bayliss' name because they knew each other. There is also a significant difference in age as John Busley was 54 when he arrived and John Bayliss was 24 when he arrived.
He was tried at Old Bailey, London on 25 February 1784 for stealing silver of 4 shillings value. He was sentenced to transportation for 7 years and left England on the Friendship aged about 37 at that time (May 1787). http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17840225-62-defend703&div=t17840225-62#highlight His occupation was listed as silversmith. He died in 1811. Guilty of return from transport following the Mercury mutiny.Report from Dunkirk hulk was “troublesome at times”.