Abraham Polack

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Maureen Withey on 1st February 2026

Colonial Secretary Index. POLACK, Abraham. Per "Agamemnon", 1820 1822 Petition for a ticket of leave for him from Surgeon James Hall (Reel 6056; 4/1763 p.203) 1822 May 9 Son of miniature artist in London. Petition for ticket of leave (Fiche 3224; 4/1867 p.15) 1823 Jun 6 Letter to refusing to grant any indulgence (Reel 6010; 4/3508 p.451) 1823 Jun 6 Of 3 Pitt Street. Petition for ticket of leave (Fiche 3235; 4/1870 p.48) 1823 Nov 11 Re permission to marry at Sydney (Reel 6011; 4/3509 p.546) 1824 Sep, Oct 21 Servant of Jacob Josephson of Sydney; testimony as to his character for a ticket of leave (Reel 6027; 4/1716.1 pp.250-2) 1825 Feb 14 On return of prisoners tried before the Supreme Court of New South Wales (Fiche 3298; X727 p.6) 1825 Apr 18 Order on the Colonial Treasurer to sundries for Government (Reel 6070; 4/6037 p.15) 1825 Sep 27 Order on the Colonial Treasurer for lamp cotton bought for use of Government (Reel 6070; 4/6037 p.53) 1825 Sep 28 Re Treasury Order drawn in favour of (Reel 6063; 4/1784 p.180a) 1825 Oct 19 Order on the Colonial Treasurer for sundries for Government (Reel 6070; 4/6037 p.62) 1825 Nov 15,24 Re Treasury Orders drawn in favour of (Reel 6063; 4/1784 pp.187a, 188a) 1825 Nov 18 Order on the Colonial Treasurer for shoemakers' awls for Melville Island (Reel 6070; 4/6037 p.64)

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Denis Pember on 14th March 2016

In the colony, Abraham married Hannah Brian, 1824 at Sydney. Hannah had come free on the "Elizabeth" that same year. In the 1828 Census. Page 304... [Ref P1012] Polack, Abraham, 31, free by servitude, Agamemnon, 1820, 7 years, Jewish, innkeeper, George Street Sydney. [Ref P1013] Polack, Hannah, 23, came free, Elizabeth, 1824, Jewish. [Ref P1014] Polack, Sarah, 3, born in the colony. [Ref P1015] Polack, Solomon, 18m, born in the colony.

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Denis Pember on 14th March 2016

ABRAHAM POLACK was indicted for stealing, on the 27th of November , one watch, value 5 l. , the property of Elizabeth Moore , spinster . ELIZABETH MOORE. I am a single woman. At the latter end of November I lost my watch from my apartments in Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square . I came out of Drury-lane Theatre, and on getting into a coach my foot slipped, the prisoner and another assisted me into the coach. They heard me tell the coachman to drive first to No. 6, Upper Rupert-street, Haymarket. I was not in my apartments two minutes before the prisoner and the other gentleman came up into my sitting-room; my watch was on the table. I went into the bed-room to take off my spencer, and the other gentleman followed me - I was not there two minutes, and returned to the sitting-room; I then shewed them both down stairs, returned into my room, and missed my watch. They had promised to return in half an hour. I did not see the prisoner again till the 13th of January, when I met him in Oxford-street. I knew him, got an officer, and took him up. I have not recovered my watch. Q. Why do you accuse him, in preference to the other man - A. I was in the sitting-room all the time the other was; he had no opportunity of taking it without my seeing him. Cross-examined by MR. WALFORD. Q. You never saw either of them before - A. Never. I am not very often in the habit of seeing strangers. It was on a Saturday night. Q. What is the house - A. It is an oyster-shop. The private door is always shut. WILLIAM DEAN . I was in Oxford-street; the prosecutrix and another female came to me, and said two men had run round the corner, and one had stolen her watch. The prisoner was pointed out to me, with another person. I followed, stopped him, and said two ladies wanted to speak to him - the prisoner asked for what purpose? I said it was something respecting a watch. The prosecutrix came up and said, "This is the man who stole my watch!" I took him to Marlborough-street. He wished me to call on his friends - they said they would not come near him. Cross-examined. Q. Do you know the house - A. I called there by the prisoner's desire. It appears respectable - it is not a brothel. SAMUEL PLANK . On the 13th of January Mr. Dean brought the prisoner to Marlborough-street office. Moore charged him with stealing her watch at the latter end of November, he said he was not in England at the time, for he was just come from Gibraltar, and that a captain in the 64th regiment came home with him. I found a book on him - he said it was a journal which he kept, I found the last entry to be Yarmouth, the 19th of November, which proves he could not be at Gibraltar; I also found letters addressed to him in England before the robbery, in the name of G. T. Polack, Esq. R. N. Cross-examined. Q. Did the prosecutrix fix on the day - A. She said it was on a Saturday, and mentioned the performance she had seen, and we found it was performed on the 27th of November, and on no other night in that month. GUILTY Aged 21. Transported for Seven Years . Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.