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Transportation
Charlotte Ware was transported on the Friendship, departing 13th May 1787 and arriving 21st Jan 1788 with 107 passengers.
This convict ship, being 274 tons and 75 feet long was one of the light weight ships in the fllet and was skippered by Master Francis Walton. Built in Scarborough in 1784, she carried 76 male and 21 female convicts. During her return voyage to England her crew came down with scurvy and with insufficient crew to man her, she was scuttled in the straights of Macassar. The survivors were transferred to the Alexander.
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Convict Notes
Charlotte Ware was tried at Old Bailey, London on 10 December 1783 for assault and robbery with a value of 10 shillings. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17831210-34-defend411&div=t17831210-34#highlight She was sentenced to transportation for 7 years and left England on the Friendship aged about 25 at that time (May 1787), she died in 1839. She had previous convictions for theft. Guilty of return from transport following the Mercury mutiny.Report from Dunkirk hulk was that she was behaving “better than formerly”.On the journey, held in irons for 10 days for breaking through the bulkhead to reach the seamen.On 9 February 1789 ordered 30 lashes for beating another woman, and received 20 more for insolence. Owned property in her own right by 1805.