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Richard Johnson was transported on the Active, Albermarle, Atlantic, Barrington, Britannia, Mary Ann, Matilda, Salamander And William And Ann, departing 31st Dec 1790 and arriving 9th Jul 1791 with 1265 passengers.
The Third Fleet consisted of 11 Vessels. Active, Albermarle, Atlantic, Barrington, Britannia, Gorgon, Mary Ann, Matilda, Queen (from Ireland) Salamander and William and Ann. These vessels were provided by a private company; Camden, Calvert and King to ship convicts to the colony.
Active, Albermarle, Atlantic, Barrington, Britannia, Mary Ann, Matilda, Salamander And William And Ann (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 120 |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Old Bailey Online RICHARD JOHNSON. Violent Theft; highway robbery. 27th October 1790. Text type Trial account Defendants RICHARD JOHNSON Offences Violent Theft > Highway robbery Session Date 27th October 1790 Reference Number t17901027-35 Verdicts Guilty > Lesser offence Punishments Transportation 723. RICHARD JOHNSON was indicted for feloniously assaulting Ann White , on the king's highway, on the 25th of September , and putting her in fear and danger of her life, and feloniously taking from her person and against her will two linen sheets, value 4 s. a gown, value 4 s. a petticoat, value 12 d. a muslin handkerchief, value 13 s. three pair of stockings, value 12 d. two muslin caps, value 18 d. two check aprons, value 18 d. and a muslin apron, value 2 s. her property . ANN WHITE sworn. I had been in place. I lodged at Mr. Viney's, in Great Marybone-street. I was in the Brentford coach, coming to London, and was getting out of that into a hackney coach: it was in Piccadilly, near the White Horse-cellar , about a quarter before eight: my bundle, box, and band box were all put up into the hackney coach; and as the stage coachman was helping me up the high step of the hackney coach, the coachman and me were pushed down, and I missed my bundle out of the hackney coach; I did not see it taken, but I felt it rushing past my bonnet: I asked the hackney coachman about my bundle; that is the prisoner; and he said, he knew nothing of them; and I asked the stage coachman, and he knew nothing of them; and I came away in the coach without my parcel, to Mary-bone-street; I got my bundle again afterwards: there was no force used in taking it. JOHN THOMPSON sworn. I am the stage coachman: I brought this gentlewoman and the things from Brentford, and put her and the things into the hackney coach, and I was shoved down on the side of the coach. EDWARD HUGHES sworn. I am one of the patrol. I took this bundle from the prisoner on Saturday, the 25th of September, about a quarter before nine: I pursued him up Piccadilly: I had heard of the robbery: he was driving his coach: another person was with him, named Jack Peart : I pursued them, and took the bundle from the prisoner; the other man jumped off; and when the prisoner had drove the coach to Princes-street, facing St. Ann's church, he took out the bundle, and walked down the court; I stopped him; he said, Jack Peart gave it him: I secured him. RICHARD MOUNTAIN sworn. I am the owner of the coach: the prisoner was not employed by me, nor I do not know how he came to be employed. (The things deposed to, marked A. W.) PRISONER's DEFENCE. I lived fellow servant with this coachman. About four o'clock in this afternoon he was rather in liquor; and he asked me to go out for an hour or two; I went out with his coach about half after seven; I was called from the stand in Piccadilly, and John Thompson put the things in the coach; I never left the coach nor the horses: the lady said, she had lost her bundle; I said, it is of no use making a riot round the coach, for all the mob in the world will not bring the bundle back: I drove her to Marybone; then I was fetched to go to White's coffee-house; when I came to the Gate-house; says the gentleman, is this your bundle? and it fell out between my legs; I said, it is not mine; I took the bundle home till it was advertised. WILLIAM VINEY sworn. I saw the prosecutrix get out of the coach; I searched the coach, and there was no bundle in the coach. GUILTY, of the larceny, not of the robbery . Transported for seven years . Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice HEATH.