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Voyage
Transportation
Susannah Mason was transported on the Prince Of Wales, departing 31st Mar 1787 and arriving 22nd Jan 1788 with 60 passengers.
This ship carried only one male convict and 49 female convicts. She was of 350 tons and skippered by Master John Mason. Built at the Thames in 1786. She operated in England until 1797 when her registration was transferred to Fort Royal, Martinique, after which, little is known.
Prince Of WalesReferences
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Convict Notes
She died on 18 July 1821, her burial registered (as Ann Archer, "free", age 87), at St Philip's Sydney on the 20th. (Mollie Gillen incorrectly has year of death as 1825 in her book)
Susannah Mason alias Gibbs, was found guilty on 13 January 1786 at the Middlesex Session of the Peace at Westminster, of stealing a child's cotton frock and two yards of silk ribbon. She was held at Newgate Gaol until ordered for transportation on 1 January 1787, age given as 49, and sent to Portsmouth on 30 April for embarkation on the Prince of Wales on 3 May 1787 for her voyage to Sydney as part of the First Fleet. As Susannah Gibbs she married John Archer on 25 December 1788 (he signed his name as John Forrester). On 5 December 1789 she was ordered 25 lashes for being one of the people who supplied Elizabeth Leonard (Leonell) with the liquor that made her drunk. Her husband received a 30 acre grant at Petersham Hill in 1794. In October 1799 a quantity of clothing and other goods were stolen from their home. Her husband was listed in the general musters as clerk to Henry Kable in 1806 and in 1814. Source: Mollie Gillen, The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet (1989), p 241