Isaac Haines

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Maureen Withey on 5th January 2023

Isaac Haines, for stealing at the same place, (Brighton) one hat, one coat, three shirts, and divers others articles, the property of Edw. Haines. Each Transported for Seven Years. Sussex Advertiser, 9 July 1832. --------------------------------------------------- Tasmanian Conduct Record https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON31-1-20$init=CON31-1-20P187 No 1479. Isaac Haines. Per Georgiana. Tried Sussex Q.S. 5 July 1832. Transported for stealing wearing apparel. Gaol report, Bad. Convicted before. Hulk Report good. Single Stated this offence, Robbing my father. Prosecuted by him. Denies having been convicted before. Orderly on board. Single. See record for details. Tasmanian Description Record https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON18-1-8$init=CON18-1-8P177 Isaac Haines, age 19, Seaman. Lots of tattoos. See record for details. ---------------------------------------------------- PIRACY. " We have had reported to us the escape of the Badger, a Government Colonial vessel, stated to have been, entirely manned by convicts— as such a fact would envolve a charge which must cost Colonel Arthur his commission to govern this Colony any longer, we postpone observation, till due enquiry has been made." Thus speaks The Colonist of last week.— The loss of this vessel is confirmed by the demi-official journal of Friday last. It appears, that she left the port of Hobart Town on Tuesday week, with provisions for some military station at East Bay Neck ; at which place she was seen (by the signal-man from Mount Nelson) to pass without putting in, on the following day. No suspicion of her being taken away took place till yesterday se'n-night, when a signal man, stationed at Mount Nelson, was missing. The master and the whole of the crew are crown prisoners ! The signal-man at Mount Nelson, is a person named George H. Darby, who, it is said, was formerly a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and distinguished himself at the battle of Navarino. Besides this man, the following prisoners are officially advertised in last Friday's Gazette as missing :— William Philp, (formerly the master of a merchant vessel), John Venton, John Nicolas, Isaac Haines, and Lauglan Macintosh. The Clergyman, named Roberts, who was recently transported to this Colony, and who it was supposed had been sent to Port Arthur, is also gone. Several other convicts, used to the seafaring life, are likewise missing. The Badger is well fitted out for a long voyage, with plenty of provisions, muskets, ammunition, and nautical instruments, which the runaways procured. She is nearly a new vessel, about 25 tons, a good sailer, and newly coppered. She had, it is said, a fair wind out of port ; and whatever means may have been used by the Government to discover or overtake her, we fear, they will prove abortive. We have heard a great deal about Colonel Arthur's system of prison discipline. What will the Home Government think of His Excellency manning a Government vessel, thus provisioned and equipped as the Badger, with Crown prisoners, like the above-named runaways, all sea-faring men ? The Colonist, (Hobart Town) 6 Aug 1833. -------------------------------------------------- This was also reported in the British Press: Piracy by Convicts. Information was received at the different Police establishments yesterday, that in the month of August, 1833, the Colonial Schooner, Badger, belonging to the Government of Van Diemen’s Land, was piratically seized and carried off {it was believed) by the following nine convicts, viz., George Harding Darby, convicted at Somerset in March, 1830, and transported for life, reported from the Hulks to have behaved very badly there and headed a party designing to mutiny; Wm. Phillip, convicted Cornwall, August, 1830, of setting fire to vessel, and transported for life ; John Nicola, convicted in London of robbery from the person, and transported for life; John Veaton, tried at Devon, March, 1829, and transported for life; Isaac Haines, tried in Sussex in July, 1832, transported for seven years; Lochlan Mackintosh, transported for life from Edinburgh July, 1831; John Deacon, tried Dorset in July, 1830, for sheep-stealing, and transported for life; Dowson, transported from London in 1830, for seven years ; Joseph Ward, tried at Leicester in March 1831, transported for life; and John Roberts convicted in Middlesex in September, 1830, of forgery, and transported for life. They arrived with the schooner at Lifutta one of the Friendly Islands, in September, 1833, and were known to have afterwards reached Macao, China, from whence it was supposed some of them would find their way back to England. Morning Advertiser. 5 June 1835.