Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Transportation
Esau Clements was transported on the Active, Albermarle, Atlantic, Barrington, Britannia, Mary Ann, Matilda, Salamander And William And Ann, departing 31st Dec 1790 and arriving 9th Jul 1791 with 1265 passengers.
The Third Fleet consisted of 11 Vessels. Active, Albermarle, Atlantic, Barrington, Britannia, Gorgon, Mary Ann, Matilda, Queen (from Ireland) Salamander and William and Ann. These vessels were provided by a private company; Camden, Calvert and King to ship convicts to the colony.
Active, Albermarle, Atlantic, Barrington, Britannia, Mary Ann, Matilda, Salamander And William And Ann (generic)References
| Primary Source | Digitised Indent of ship Albemarle |
Claims
No one has claimed Esau Clements yet.
Photos
No photos have been added for Esau Clements.
Convict Notes
Trial at Old Bailey, 21 Feb 1787 245. ESAU CLEMENTS and GEORGE HUMPHRIES were indicted for stealing, on the 1st of February , eight trusses of hay, value 12 s. the property of James Olef . JAMES OLEF sworn. On the 1st of this month, there was a waggon load of hay brought into my yard in Kingsland-road ; I saw it there safe about ten at night, and the next morning there were about eight trusses of hay missing from the waggon; I can swear to the hay, and here is the hay binder to prove his work; endeavouring to trace this out, I saw some hay against a shed belonging to one Collins; upon which I got a search warrant; in searching the house I found loose hay in the parlour to the amount of two trusses, and four trusses up stairs in a closet bound. JANE COLLINS sworn. The prisoners brought the hay to me, and said they found it, between three and four in the morning; I cannot rightly say to the time; they brought it the 31st of last March; the prisoners work for me; they did not offer to sell it to me. FRANCIS ROBINSON sworn. I am a hay binder; I know this hay by my bands; I bind hay for the prosecutor; I turn mine on a stick, and our hay binders turn them on their thumb. Armstrong. I had the search warrant; and I found the hay on the premises; we took the prisoners out of their beds that night; the prisoners said, they found the hay in the road by the Black Horse; they acknowledged having taken the hay to Collins's; I am sure of that; the road was then exceeding dirty, and there was not a mark of mud on the hay; they said, they found it over right Shoreditch watch-house. Prosecutor. My waggon never goes nigh that place; I know nothing of the prisoners. Court to Robinson. Can you undertake to swear to that hay band that is produced? - Yes, in the make of it, it is more common to turn it upon the thumb; nobody does it so in our part of the country; we could not make them quite so regular with a stick. Jury. Can you swear that that was one of the trusses of hay that was on that waggon? - Yes, by the string of the hay, and the make; there was no hay I believe sold to any other person but the prosecutor. Will you swear this, that there is no meadow in the country that produces the same sort of hay as your master's? - None that I know of. Do you think you think you could know the hay that grows in your master's meadow from any other in the kingdom? - No. Prosecutor. I bought the stack, and no man ever had a truss of that hay but myself. Prisoners. We found the hay. BOTH GUILTY . Each to be transported for seven years . Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
Digitised Indent of ship Albemarle Thomas Petree, William Edsell, Esau Clements, John Cox, Michael Doyle, William Stanton, Thomas Warner, tried at Justice Hall Old Bailey, Middlesex, 21 Feb 1787, seven years.