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John Fitzpatrick was transported on the Friendship, departing 24th Aug 1799 and arriving 16th Feb 1800 with 161 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.
FriendshipReferences
| Primary Source | http://srwww.records.nsw.gov.au. Indent of ship "Friendship" arrived 1800. NSW Musters of 1806, 1811. |
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Convict Notes
1841 - HEALTH & WELFARE New Norfolk Colonial Hospital. Ship to colony: Friendship Remarks: Admitted with debilitas
The 1819 Tasmanian Census records that John Fitzpatrick, per "Friendship" was tried at Cork n 1797 and given Life. this information must have been supplied by John himself.
__________________ Indent of "Friendship" records John Fitzpatrick as "United Irishman". 120 of the convicts on board the "Friendship" had this recorded against their names as explanation for their transportation, all involved in the 1798 Rebellion. Earlier reliable researcher Reg Wright pins Fitzpatrick's trial to October 1798 at Dublin. IN NSW 1806 Census recorded as self-employed, "EC" for Emancipated Convict, and employed as a potter. His status record on a vessel to Hobart in Sept 1817 was "conditionally free by Gov King". This fits with the time of his being freed by the 1806 Muster as Phillip King was governor from 1800 to August 1806. If he was a brickmaker/potter then his skills would have been valued in the new colony and this may have been the reason for his emancipation. IN September 1817 he was on board the 'Henrietta" Packet for Hobart, listed as one of the crew, (SR NSW Departing Crew and Passenger Lists no 29/121}. He is noted as "Cond'y [i.e. COnditionally] free by Governor King." In the 1819 Tasmanian Muster, he is residing in Hobart: John Fitzpatrick, Arrived per ship Friendship Ship's Master: Read; Current Status: Emancipated; Off Stores, Residence: Hobart.
John Fitzpatrick's crime not yet discovered. However, if he were tried at Maryborough, he may have been related to Pat Fitzpatrick who was was convicted at Maryborough, in Queens County, at the Lent Assizes in early April 1798 shortly before the Irish Rebellion broke out in May 1798. Pat Fitzpatrick was charged with "administering an unlawful oath to Peter Bergin, who proved the crime clearly. He was found guilty. Fitzpatrick had appointed serjeants, corporals etc, and had sworn them to obey him, and was himself sworn to obey his superiors." [ Finns Leinster Journal, Saturday 7 April 1798, p4] This Pat Fitzpatrick "who was convicted at the assizes at Maryborough, was executed there on Monday." [Belfast Newsletter, Monday 16 April 1798].