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Transportation
William Edwards was transported on the Friendship, departing 13th May 1787 and arriving 21st Jan 1788 with 107 passengers.
This convict ship, being 274 tons and 75 feet long was one of the light weight ships in the fllet and was skippered by Master Francis Walton. Built in Scarborough in 1784, she carried 76 male and 21 female convicts. During her return voyage to England her crew came down with scurvy and with insufficient crew to man her, she was scuttled in the straights of Macassar. The survivors were transferred to the Alexander.
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Convict Notes
1792 - Old Sydney Burial Ground - Inventory of Burials Name; William Edwards Age; No Details Year of Burial. 25 December 1792 Remarks; Convict. Friendship
William Edwards was tried at Westminster, London in January 1784 for stealing clothing. He was sentenced to transportation for 7 years and left England on the Friendship aged about 34 at that time (May 1787). His occupation was listed as brickmaker. He died in 1792. Guilty of return from transport following the Mercury mutiny.Report from Dunkirk hulk was “troublesome at times”.In June 1789 his rations were reduced to two thirds for three months after an attempt to defraud stores of 34 pounds of meat. On 15 August 1789 he received 50 lashes for being in a hut “having no business there”. He received another 50 in October 1789 for insolence and a further 100 in February 1790 for the theft of three pounds of bread.