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Joseph Colling was transported on the Lady Penrhyn, Scarborough And Alexander, departing 31st Dec 1786 and arriving 22nd Jan 1788 with 356 passengers.
Lady Penrhyn, Scarborough And AlexanderReferences
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 6 |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Digital panopticon has all three convicts in the house-breaking case on the same voyage
Old Bailey Online PETER SAMPSON. CHARLES ALLEN. JOSEPH COLLINS. Theft; burglary. 7th July 1784 Text type Trial account Defendants PETER SAMPSON, CHARLES ALLEN, JOSEPH COLLINS Offences Theft > Burglary Session Date 7th July 1784 Reference Number t17840707-16 Verdicts Guilty > Lesser offence Punishments Transportation 676. PETER SAMPSON , CHARLES ALLEN , and JOSEPH COLLINS were indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling house of James Stratten , Esq ; about the hour of one in the night, on the 16th of June last, and burglariously stealing therein, one linen sheet, value 10 s. eight damask table cloths, value 40 s. one sheet, value 10 s. eight shirts, value 3 l. one counterpane, value 10 s. his property . The witnesses examined apart. ELIZABETH GRIFFITHS sworn. I am laundry maid to Mr. Stratton, he lives at Hackney ; I went last to bed, I locked the laundry the night the robbery was committed, which was the 16th of June, the doors and windows were secure; in the morning about six I was alarmed, the laundry had been broke open and robbed; when I got up I observed the window opened, and an iron bar taken out. Did you look at that window before you went to bed? - Yes, it was fast then. Did your master lose any thing? - Yes. What did he lose? - There were a vast many things lost, there were three counterpanes, eight table cloths, shirts, shifts, and aprons, and sheets, I saw these things the night before; some part of them are here. Mr. Peatt, Prisoner's Council. Was you all over the house before you went to bed? - No. Sir, only all over the laundry. Jury. Is the laundry a detached building from the house? - Joining to the house. Court. How does it join? - It joins to one corner. Mr. Peatt. Is the laundry and the house distinct? - They are just joining. Court. Do they join brick to brick? - - Yes. Mr. Peatt. Are there any cellar windows to the laundry? - No. Is there any garrets to the laundry? - Yes. You was not there? - No. How long before that evening had you been in the garret? - Not for three or four days before. JOHN MOORE sworn. I am a gardener, I apprehended the prisoners in the middle of the day, about eleven, on the 17th of June, they had three bundles, each had one; I sat in a cart, waiting to give a man a cask, and I saw the prisoners come out at the end of the lane, and I suspected them, and I went to catch Allen, and he threw a bundle at me plump in my face, and the other two ran away; I called out stop thief! and I saw them all seized, with the bundles on them; the bundles have been in Lovell's possession ever since, I gave them to him. Mr. Peatt. Were they out of sight any part of your pursuit? - Neither Sampson nor Allen. Were there any other persons about in the fields? - Five or six people run. What do you know of Collins? - I never saw him till he was taken; Lee took him. How soon after did you see Collins in custody? - About three minutes. SOLOMON LOVELL sworn. I took possession of the things, I took them home and dried them, the next day I brought them to the Office. Mr. Peatt. How came they in your possession? - I took one up which Collins dropped, then they came up with the other two. The things deposed to by Elizabeth Griffiths , the table cloth and sheet marked I. A. S. Court. What are the value of these things? - I do not know; the table cloth and sheet are marked, and this counterpane I have washed several times. Court. That is nothing at all as to the counterpane. Mr. Peatt. What does your master do with his old linen? - I do not know. Court. What is the value of the sheet? - I am not a judge. PRISONERS DEFENCE. We leave it to our Council; we picked the things up under a hedge. ALL THREE GUILTY. Of stealing, to the value of 30 s. but not of breaking and entering the dwelling house . Each transported for seven years .
Married to mary colling,
Married to Mary Colling, aged 20 when he arrived, Convicted in 1784, Value of crimes 30 shillings, stole linen, arrived 22nd January, 1788