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Mary Broad was transported on the Charlotte, departing 13th May 1787 and arriving 22nd Jan 1788 with 111 passengers.
Being 335 tons, 105 ft long and 28 ft at the beam, The Charlotte held 88 male and 20 female convicts. Built in 1784 and Skippered by Master Thomas Gilbert, her return to England saw her doing the London - Jamacia run until she was sold to a Quebec merchant in 1818 and was then lost off the coast of Newfoundland that very same year.
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Convict Notes
Mary Bryant nee Broad's profile in The Australian Dictionary of Biography begins with: "Mary Bryant (b.1765), convict, was baptized on 1 May 1765 at Fowey, Cornwall, England, the daughter of a mariner named Broad". This is incorrect, and was based purely on a check of Fowey's register in the 1930s. Parish records of Cornwall are now readily available, and so are Boswell's papers at Yale University Library, and they reveal that Mary Broad was baptised on 10 March 1765 at Lanlivery, Cornwall, parents William and Dorothy Broad, who moved to Fowey in the 1770s. Boswell's papers show that Boswell sent Mary back to her family at Fowey in 1794, Mary's sister Elizabeth had married Edward Puckey, Mary's younger sister was 'Dolly' (Dorothy), and there were references to the Pope family (Mary's paternal grandmother was a Pope). There was a Mary, parents William (a mariner) and Grace born at Fowey in 1765, but this family moved to Devon in the 1770s. Meanwhile the family of William and Dorothy moved to Fowey. More details are at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Broad-175
Links for further info adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bryant-mary-1843 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bryant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsjfb1uyogg https://heroinesofhistory.wikispaces.com/Mary+Bryant
The Charlotte arrived on the 18th Of January 1788, not the 22nd of May 1788
Mary Broad/Braund/Bryant was baptised on 1/5/1765 at Fowey, Cornwall, the daughter of a mariner named Broad. 1786: She was charged with "Assault and Robbery at Exetter Assizes under the name of Braund, found guilty, sentenced to death but transported for 7 years. Mary was put on the Charlotte in the First Fleet, when they got to Cape Town, Mary delivered a daughter and named her Charlotte Spence. 1788: At Sydney Cove Mary married William Bryant, about 31, who had been convicted in March 1784, at the Launceston (must be England) Assizes, for resisting Revenue Officers and sentenced to 7 years transportation. He was put on the Charlotte and was employed in issuing provisions to his fellow prisoners. April 1790: Mary gave birth to Emanuel. 28/3/1791: The Bryants and 7 convicts made their escape in the Governor's cutter. They made their way to Timor where they were taken in charge by Captain Edward Edwards, who had arrived at Timor with the survivors and crew from the wrecked "Pandora". In November and in irons they reached Batavia on the way back to England, where Emanuel died and 3 weeks later William died. Charlotte died at sea on 5/5/1792. 2/5/1793: Mary was finally pardoned, where she left London and went back to her family at Fowey. 1794: is the last that is know of Mary.