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Voyage
Transportation
Richard Stapleton was transported on the Britannia Iii, departing 10th Dec 1796 and arriving 27th May 1797 with 48 passengers.
Third voyage to Australia. Arrived in Sydney Cove on 18 July 1798 1814 voyage departed from Bengal with 10 male convicts. All tried in India.
Britannia Iii (generic)References
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Convict Notes
In the Northern Counties competition for farms and the religious difference led to standing feuds between Catholic and Protestant peasantry. In Ulster and elsewhere the catholic tenants banded themselves into a society called “The Defenders” who owed their origin in 1784 to an encounter between the two religions. Richard Stapleton was a 'Defender'. He was transported for 'Stealing Lead'. Conditions were horrific on the Britannia - there was a mutiny involving a number of the Irish prisoners which took place off the coast of Rio de Janeiro - Richard Stapleton died after receiving first 300 lashes and then a further 500 lashes the next day for helping to plan the mutiny. He died at sea in 1797.