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Transportation
Elijah Stevens was transported on the Baring, departing 31st Mar 1815 and arriving 7th Sep 1815 with 302 passengers.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/2, Page Number 200 |
| 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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Old Bailey Online ELIJAH STEVENS. Theft; petty larceny (to 1827). 4th December 1805. Text type Trial account Defendants ELIJAH STEVENS Offences Theft > Petty larceny Session Date 4th December 1805 Reference Number t18051204-63 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 63. ELIJAH STEVENS was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 11th of November , a pocket-book, value 6 d. the property of William Hosier . WILLIAM HOSIER sworn. I am porter to Mr. Tomkins in Bread-street, Cheapside. On the 11th of November, about half after five o'clock, at dusk, I was almost by Aldgate pump ; a young man came running and told me that I had lost my pocket-book; I put my hand into my pocket, and found it was gone; I had felt it was safe in my pocket about half an hour before. Q. Did you see the prisoner? - A. I saw the prisoner, but I did not perceive him pick my pocket. JOHN FORRESTER sworn. I am a patrole of Portsoken ward. Q. Do you know the prisoner at the bar? - A. Yes, I saw him on the eleventh of November, about six o'clock in the evening, following of the prosecutor, and by the light of the shop windows I saw the pocket-book in his hand; I knew that he had done the business; he had the pocket-book in his hand, he put it in his coat pocket; I was in the middle of the high-road as he crossed from the pavement to the other side of the way; I met him, and seized him. Q. Did he surrender quietly? - A. We had a bit of a scuffle; I took him into a shop, because I was afraid the book would be confisticated. Q. Did you find the pocket-book on him? - A. No, I could not find it on his person, and not one minute had elapsed from the time when I searched him; I searched the shop as well as him, I could not find it there; from thence I took him to the watchhouse, and after I had secured him, I took a candle and lanthorn with me from the watchhouse to the spot where I first laid hold of him, and under my feet there lay the pocket-book; it was close to where I took hold of him; I sent for the prosecutor, he came, he said it was his property. Q. (To Prosecutor.) Is that the pocket-book you had on the 11th of November? - A. It is, there is a few memorandums of my own in it. Q. What is the value of it? - A. Sixpence. Prisoner's Defence. Between five and six o'clock I was going towards Aldgate; that officer accused me of a robbery, he took me and and searched me, and found nothing on me, he took me into the watchhouse, and in about five minutes he returned with the prosecutor and the pocket-book; he asked the prosecutor if that was his pocket-book, he said yes. GUILTY - aged 22. Transported for Seven Years .