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Transportation
Samuel Hussey 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
Samuel/James Hussey was tried at Oxford, Oxfordshire on 3 March 1784 for stealing livestock (two horses) with a value of 240 shillings. He was sentenced to transportation for 7 years having been originally sentenced to death, and left England on the Friendship aged about 33 at that time (May 1787), he committed suicide in 1808. Guilty of return from transport following the Mercury mutiny.Report from Dunkirk hulk was that he had behaved “remarkably well”.Night watch member. He lived with Frances Hughes on Norfolk Island from 1790 and went with her to Van Diemen’s Land in 1807