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Voyage
Transportation
Hannah Green 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
Hannah Green was tried at Old Bailey, London on 10 September 1783 for stealing clothing with a value of 17 shillings. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17830910-65-defend797&div=t17830910-65#highlight She was sentenced to transportation for 7 years and left England on the Friendship aged about 31 at that time (May 1787). Her occupation was listed as None.She left NSW in 1801 The crime was one involving shoplifting.Guilty of return from transport following the Mercury mutiny.Report from Dunkirk hulk was that she was behaving “better than formerly”. Married William Haynes on 10 February 1788.