Nathaniel Nutter

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Maureen Withey on 22nd July 2024

NSW Convict Index. Nathaniel Nutter, per Florentia, 1828. Certificate of Freedom, 19 Jun 1833. No 33/0660. Remarks: Transported from Cork per Governor Ready, 1829. ADM 101/27/51827-1828 Medical and surgical journal of the convict ship Florentia for 23 July 1827 to 14 January 1828 by James Dickson, Surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed on a passage to New South Wales. Folio 41: Nathaniel [Arthur], aged 30; convict; disease or hurt, febris typhus. Put on sick list, 22 August 1827. Discharged, 12 September 1827 to hospital at Cork. ---------------------------------------------------------------- FEVER IN A CONVICT SHIP. A considerable degree of anxiety has these few days past, in consequence of the circumstance of six Convicts, lately arrived in the Florentia ship from being sent up to our Depot, ….?, The fact, however, turns out to be, that the vessel, having been at sea, for nearly three weeks, three …. and consequent change to the diet, had contracted fever, (of rather a mild character) on which the Surgeon, dreading its extension amongst the rest of the Convicts, insisted on beating away for the next Port. on his arrival he communicated with the Government, on which Dr. Trevor was dispatched to Port, who on inspecting these man, found them in a state of convalescence, but too weak to proceed on a long sea Voyage ; he, therefore, more prudent to send them to our Depot, to await the next and avoid the heavy a demarrage which a detention of the ship would create. (Cork Chronicle). Dublin Morning Register, 18 Sept 1827. ------------------------------------------------------------- It appears that several convicts were landed at Cork, suffering from a typhus fever. According to the newspaper account, they were convalescent but too weak to continue on the Florentia. They were sent onward to New South Wales by the next convict ship when possible. In NSW, their records appear to list them as having arrived per Florentia.

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Maureen Withey on 22nd July 2024

Tried at the Old Bailey, 6 April 1826. 764. NATHANIEL NUTTER was indicted for stealing, on the 23d of February , 1 pair of trousers, value 10s. , the goods of William Wakefield . JOSEPH TILLY . I am shopman to Mr. William Wakefield, a pawnbroker , of Mile End-road . On the 23d of February I was behind the counter, and heard a noise - I jumped over the counter, and went out at the door, where I saw the prisoner making off as fast as he could, with these trousers, which had been hanging on a hook, about two feet within the door - he threw them down. I asked a gentleman to pick them up, and I followed the prisoner down Stepney-green. I never lost sight of him, except for about a second, while he turned the corner; this knife and stick were thrown upon a shutter, as he ran by, but I did not see him throw them; the trousers appear to have been cut down.(Property produced and sworn to). Prisoner's Defence. I was near the end of Stepneygreen, and heard the cry of Stop thief! I ran - the gentleman came, and said I was his prisoner. I had been out of work three weeks. I saw a man rush past me, and into an empty house. GUILTY . Aged 22. Transported for Seven Years .