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Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Frances Hart 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
Frances Hart She was tried at Old Bailey, London on 10 September 1783 for receiving stolen clothing with a value of £2 3 shillings. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17830910-37-person467&div=t17830910-37#highlight She was sentenced to transportation for 7 years and left England on the Friendship aged about 36 at that time (May 1787). Her occupation was listed as mantua maker. Frances Hart was the wife of David Hart at the time of conviction. Guilty of return from transport following the Mercury mutiny.Report from Dunkirk hulk was “behaving better than formerly”.Described as Jewish, she married William Robinson on 13 February 178