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Voyage
Transportation
Margaret Hall 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
Margaret Hall was tried at Old Bailey, London on 4 December 1782 for stealing jewellery and cash with a value of 845 shillings. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17821204-68-defend703&div=t17821204-68#highlight She was sentenced to transportation for 7 years having been originally sentenced to death, and left England on the Friendship aged about 22 at that time (May 1787). She died in 1807 The victim had “agreed to go to bed with her” being “rather too much in liquor”.Guilty of return from transport following the Mercury mutiny.Married Peter Williams on 13 February 1788 but were no longer together by 1791.