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John Plumb was transported on the Lord Hungerford, departing 30th Jun 1821 and arriving 26th Dec 1821 with 228 passengers.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/4, Page Number 57 (30) |
| 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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Convict Notes
Nottingham Assizes.  All the prisoners sentenced to death were reprieved before the Judge left the town. … Joseph Upton, aged 20, John Plumb, aged 27, and Samuel Alexander, aged 18, for stopping Wm. Potter on the highway at Bunny, and robbing  him of a silver watch and other articles—All condemned.  ... Stamford Mercury, 23 March 1821.
Burials in the Parish of St David's Hobart Town in the County of Buckingham in the Year 1825 No; 968 Name; John Plumb Died; 26 March When buried; 29 March 1825 Age; 32 years [1793] Ship’s Name; Lord Hungerford - Bushranger Quality or profession. Convict By Whom Ceremony was preformed; Wm. Bedford. Conduct Record;- Transported for "Highway Robbery " F & M at Lambrough ? near Notts
New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters, Tasmania. 1826 No; 204 Name; John Plumb Ship arrived by; Lord Hungerford To whom assigned; DIED; in Hospital 28 Mar 1825
Nottingham Assizes. Joseph Upton, John Plumb, and Samuel Alexander, for highway robbery, Death. Northampton Mercury, 31 Mar 1821.
Hobart Town Gazette, 4 Mar 1825 Absconded prisoners John Plumb, 204, 5 ft. 6 in. light brown hair, dark brown eyes, 31 years of age, a stocking weaver, tried at Nottingham March 16, 1821, sentence life, arrived in this Colony per Lord Hungerford 1821, late in the service of Mr. Franks, charged with felony, last seen in company with McCabe 614, and Brady 356, at Mr. George Kemp's hut, at the Lake.—£2 Reward. Hobart Town Gazette, 18 March 1825 THE GALLANT CAPTURE OF PLUMB, THE CONFEDERATE OF M'CABE AND BRADY, THE NOTORIOUS BANDITTI AND MURDERERS.- At length we have the cordial satisfaction of announcing that John Plumb, the bushranging confederate of M'Cabe and Brady, is captured, …. … It appears that on the 6th instant a fine fellow named William Allan, of the 3d Regiment, accompanied by two indefatigable Police Officers, named Dutton and Kennard, who were searching for the bushrangers, left Jericho, and, after scouring the woods in various directions, reached the River Shannon on the 8th. They rested the remainder of that day, and on the 9th arrived at the lagoon of island, near the lakes. They then renewed their search through the forest, and, about 11 in the forenoon, as they were nearly 2 miles on this side of Joe Johnson's hut, fell in with three armed men, Mc'Cabe, Brady, and Plumb, who were approaching them at a distance, when first seen, of perhaps from 30 to 40 yards, and who, when asked what they were, said " Constables", at the same time demanding to know who the pursuing party were. Constable Dutton immediately answered that they were soldiers and police officers ; which one of the men affected to disbelieve, for he said " No, no, you are not! I think you are bushrangers ; lay down your arms." Allen then asked one of the men to lay his arms down, and join the party, but received a refusal, when both parties ran behind trees, and after Plumb had discharged his piece, the soldier and constables commenced firing. After a round or two, Dutton asked Plumb to cross over to him in the following terms. "Plumb, you are a very foolish man, if you do not listen to what I say-come over to our party, and not a hair of your head shall be hurt! Assist us in taking these men, and I am positive you will get your Emancipation!" This address, however, was unheeded, Plumb continued to level his piece at Dutton, M'Cabe at the same time calling out "Don't mind what he says, but give it him!" During this while several discharges took place from both parties stationed as before described, behind trees. At last after the conflict had continued with trifling intermissions until nearly five o'clock in the evening, Constable Dutton shot Plumb, who immediately dropt, and on perceiving whose fate his assassinating fellow-wanderers from justice immediately fled. It is however believed by the soldier, that M'Cabe was wounded in the body, and if so, the chance of taking him must now of course be providentially increased. M'Cabe is deposed to have had with him a blunderbuss and two fowling pieces, one of which was double-barrelled, and also as Allan thinks a second blunderbuss with a spring bayonet attached ; besides which the fugitives left behind them a single-barrelled fowling-piece marked with the name of " Wilbraham," and Plumb had with him when he fell a musket cut short in the barrel, and a rifle. The moment received the shot, which penetrated his chin and cut its passage through his throat, he staggered and fell down. He then begged Dutton to shoot him. The constable instantly picked up near him a kangaroo skin, a powder flask, two blankets, one of which is marked " Clarke," and two kangaroo knapsacks, containing a spy glass and a knife, which have since been owned by Captain Clarke. Plumb was kept on the spot that night, and fires were kept up near him : he wore round his neck a yellow silk handkerchief marked " Clarke, No. 4,"-and was incapable of moving. The rifle that he had used was afterwards owned by Captain Clarke ; and indeed Plumb, whose recovery is very problematical, has since acknowledged before Mr. Humphrey that it was Captain Clarke's, and that the blunderbuss had been given to him by Brady. After Plumb was shot, Dutton said " you had better have come to me this morning when I called to you"; and the poor fellow answered "I wish I had ! -but all this happens because I was a good man. -I washed a shirt for Brady, after which he and M'Cabe came backwards and forwards with provisions for me. I had been six or seven weeks without meat, and very often without flour. I and my fellow-servant Wade had none but what we conveyed from the Green-water Holes upon our backs. Our master kept us for a long time without any meat, and then sent us some pigs in such a poor condition that we could not eat them. Mr. John Franks told us we must feed the pigs on kangaroo, or go without; our hut was in Michael Howe's March, 26 miles from the Green-water Holes; and all that way were we obliged by our master to carry on our backs what flour was given us; so that after Brady had frequently pressed me to join him, and when his visits to our hut became discovered, I consented, -because I thought that at any rate I should be called as bad as him." These are all the particulars of this event so far as we have an opportunity of knowing, except that the bush-rangers had with them during the battle three fine kangaroo dogs, which are now deposited in Hobart Town Barracks; that Plumb was brought in and conveyed to the hospital on Sunday last; that the constables' and soldier's depositions have been since taken and acknowledged in his presence; that he has voluntarily confessed his share in the depredations lately perpetuated at Mr. R. Grant's, Mr. Kemp's, &c. ; and that, as before hinted, his dissolution, in consequence of the gun-shot ravage in his throat, is hourly expected.