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Transportation
Samuel Lightfoot was transported on the Charlotte, departing 13th May 1787 and arriving 22nd Jan 1788 with 111 passengers.
Being 335 tons, 105 ft long and 28 ft at the beam, The Charlotte held 88 male and 20 female convicts. Built in 1784 and Skippered by Master Thomas Gilbert, her return to England saw her doing the London - Jamacia run until she was sold to a Quebec merchant in 1818 and was then lost off the coast of Newfoundland that very same year.
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Convict Notes
Obituary link: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/654520?searchTerm=samuel lightfoot&searchLimits=l-state=Tasmania|||l-decade=181|||sortby=dateAsc
Obituary: Hobart Town Gazette: DIED, - Suddenly, on Sunday morning last, in his 65th year, Mr Samuel Lightfoot, many years assistant at the General Hospital. He came to this Settlement with the late Lieutenant Governor Collins, and was generally respected by all who knew him. As the deceased was in perfect health the evening before he died, a Coroner's Jury was of course summoned on the occasion, which returned a verdict - Died by the visitation of God.
Died in Hobart, 17 May 1818 Buried in Hobart, 22 May 1818 - https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD34-1-1$init=RGD34-1-1p011
Age when departed England 23 Trial date 14 March 1785 Trial place Exeter, Devon Value of crimes 81 shillings Original sentence Transportation Date left colony 1793 Date of Death 17 May 1818 Report from Dunkirk hulk was that he had behaved remarkably well. 1803 - returned as a free settler, employed as hospital assistant with David Collins voyage to establish settlement at Port Philip. This settlement was abandoned after three months and Collins moved everyone to the Derwent River in VDL (Tasmania) then established the Hobart settlement in 1804. Lightfoot worked under the instructions of principal surgeon William I'Anson and assistant surgeons Matthew Bowden and William Hopley.