James Bullock

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 20th November 2021

1807 - Old Bailey On-Line Born; 1761 Tried; 16 Sept 1807. Tried at Old Bailey, London. Accused of bankruptcy (that he on the 14th of may in the forty seventh year of his majesties reign, and for six months before, was and had been a wine and spirit merchant, dealer and chapman, that he being such trader became indebted to John Cowell and George Cowell in the sum of 189 l. 19 s. 2 d. that he afterwards being such trader and so indebted did become a bankrupt within the intent and meaning of the several statutes made and then in force concerning bankrupts, that is to say, he the said James Bullock did on the 1st of may depart from his dwelling house to injure his just creditors, whereupon a commission of bankruptcy under the great seal was instituted again him, and he was declared a bankrupt; and that he upon his examination before the major part of the commissioners, on the 8th of June, or at any other time, before the said commissioners duly authorised, or the major part of them, after he became a bankrupt, and after the time of issuing the said commission, did not fully and truly discover all his effects and personal estate of which he was possessed, before or after, or at the time of his becoming a bankrupt, except such part of his effects as had been sold in the ordinary way of his dealing, and except such sums as had been laid out in ordinary expenses; neither did he deliver up to the said commissioners, to wit on the 8th of June, or at any other time all such parts of his goods, wares, merchandize, money, estates and effects, as at the time of such examination was in his custody, his necessary wearing apparel and his wife's and children only excepted, but that after he became a bankrupt and after the issuing of the said commission against him, to wit, on the 8th of June, unlawfully and feloniously did conceal part of his said personal estate, to more than the value of 20 l. of which he was possessed, and which was in his custody and possession at the time of his examination before the commissioners - a promissory note for the payment of 300 l. a bank of England note for the payment of 500. sixteen silver table spoons, value 8 l. twelve silver desert spoons, value 5 l. a silver soup ladle, value 2 l. two silver gravy spoons, value 2 l. a book-case, value 5 l. a feather bed, value 6 l. four pillows, value 1 l. 21 s 6 d. eight blankets, value 4 l. and a tea urn, value 18 s. with intention to defraud his creditors.). Found guilty. Sentenced to death. Sentence outcome was transported. Sentence; Respited - 18 May 1808. 1810 - Petitioned for mitigation of sentence. Date; 3 Jan 1810 - New South Wales, Australia, Convict Registers of Conditional and Absolute Pardons. Date; 21 May 1810. 1817 - New South Wales, Australia, Convict Records, 1817 Name; James Bullock Ship; Admiral Gambier - Dec 1808. Master; Harrison Where Old Bailey. No date listed Sentence; 7 years How Disposed off and Remarks; LEFT; the Colony