John Butler

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 9th December 2021

1830 - New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents. Ship; John - 1829 Indent No; 113 Name; John Butler Age; 24 years Read. Protestant, Single Native Place; Suffolk Trade or calling; Seaman & Soldier and Surgeons Apprentice Offence; Stealing Clothes Trial; 9 April 1829 - 7 years Height; 5 ft 9 3/4 in Remarks; EXECUTED; at Norfolk Island - Sept 1834 1833 - The Sydney Herald. Thu 7 Feb 1833. Page 3. LAW INTELLIGENCE. LAW INTELLIGENCE. SUPREME COURT_(CRIMINAL SIDE.) Before the Chief Justice, and the usual Com-mission of seven Military Officers. John Butler, Archibald McFarlane, Edward Knox, William Marshall, and William McCullock, were jointly indicted for a highway robbery upon Samuel Jenkins, putting him in bodily fear, and stealing from him five bags, 40 lbs. of sugar, 20 yards cloth, 40 pair trousers, 40 shirts, 40 lbs. soap, 1 cask, 30 gallons rum, and 10 bottles of wine, the property of George Suttor ; and 2 bags, "and 5 lbs. of sugar, the property of Samuel Jenkins, at Bathurst, near Monaghan's Downfall, in the County of Westmoreland, on the 16th Nov. ; 1833 - 16 March. Gaol. Entrance and Description Book - Sydney. No; 59. Trade; Boatman. Sentence; DEATH; Commuted to Life in Irons

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Maureen Withey on 2nd January 2021

Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 4th March, 1834. HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified, that a Despatch has been received at this Office from Captain Foster Fyans, of the 4th or King's Own Regiment, Acting Commandant of Norfolk Island, dated 16th February, reporting that a Mutiny had broken out in that Island on the morning of the 15th January last, in which about one hundred and fifty convicts, comprising the gaol gang, capital respites, and others, were concerned ; but which was soon quelled, with the loss of five convicts killed, six wounded, and two soldiers wounded. In addition to these numbers, a soldier and a constable were unfortunately shot by a military party, who were out in pursuit of certain convicts that had taken to the bush, and who unhappily mistook them for the runaways of whom they were in search. His Excellency has much pleasure in expressing his approbation of the prompt and efficacious measures adopted by Captain Fyans upon this occasion, by which the settlement has been restored to a state of perfect tranquillity. Nor can he omit noticing the activity and zeal displayed by Lieutenant FORTESCUE, and the steady discipline and good conduct of the men of the 4th Regiment under his command. The Acting Commandant also mentions in terms of approbation the exertions of Mr. Assistant Surgeon Gamack, the overseers and constables generally, and of many of the prisoners whose names have been especially reported, and the particulars of whose cases will be immediately investigated, in order that they may respectively receive such rewards as their conduct merits. By His Excellency's Command, ALEXANDER McLEAY. MILITARY Wounded by the Mutineers. John Pike and William Ferham, privates 4th or King's Own Regiment. Accidentally shot while in pursuit of Bushrangers. Thomas York, private 4th or King's Own Regiment. Thomas Consterdine, per ship Recovery, Acting Constable. CONVICTS. Killed by the Military, or since dead of wounds then received. William Collins, per ship Florentia. George Wright, Countess Harcourt. Thomas Williams, Minerva (5). Dominic McCoy, alias Boyce, Bussorah Merchant. Robert May, or Smith, Florentia. Wounded and now Convalescent. Henry Drummond, per ship Ocean (3). John Butler, John (2). James Brady, Mangles (4). Samuel Wilson, Ocean (3). Joseph Snell, Recovery. Thomas Freshwater, Manlius. Sydney Gazette, 15 Mar 1834.