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Voyage
Transportation
John Brennan was transported on the Friendship, departing 24th Aug 1799 and arriving 16th Feb 1800 with 161 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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Convict Notes
From Anne-Maree Whitaker's book, "Unfinished Revolution-United Irishmen in New South Wales, 1800-1810": “By June 1801 the Governor had granted ticket of leave to around one fifth of the Minerva and Friendship convicts. .. The former sheriff of Wexford, John Brean (Brennon), was running James Williamson’s 90 acre farm at the Hawkesbury though he did not receive his conditional pardon until the following January." Pages 135. "Although only 16 of the Friendship convicts are shown as free in the muster, (of 1806) a total of 22 had received conditional pardons by then. John Brenan (Brannon), the former sheriff of Wexford, was a settler on 100 acres at Cattai (Cat Eye) on the Hawkesbury River."
John Brennan was not executed. He was buried on 3 March 1819. Another John Brennan was executed in Sydney on 23 April 1819.
John Brennan was the sheriff of Wexford, in 1798 he was the commissionary for the irish rebels. He was executed 5 Mar 1819 in Sydney NSW age 65.