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Transportation
Japhet White was transported on the Surrey Or Surry, departing 14th Jul 1816 and arriving 20th Dec 1816 with 150 passengers.
Built at Harwich in 1811 a square-rigged transport ship of 443 tons and copper lined she had two decks with a height between decks of 5 ft. 8 ins. In 1818, she had a major refit increasing the decks (and convict carrying capacity) to three. She was owned by the London firm of F. & C.F. Mangles.
Surrey Or Surry (generic)References
| Primary Source | The Annual register or a view of the history, politics and literature for the year 1815. London, printed by T. Bentley & Son for Baldwin, Craddock & Joy [er al]: 1816 |
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Convict Notes
At the commission for the county and city of Dublin, Which ended on Thursday the ? Instant, Mr. John Forgarty, Mr. White, Messrs. John and Charles Read, Mr. Samuel Clayton, and Mr. John Garrigan, were tried for being concerned in vending forged stamps. They were all found guilty for seven years. Mr. Edward Emerson, & Mr. John Forgarty, sen, pleaded guilty. Mr. Fogarty and his son, and Mr White, are Attornies, and of very respectable connections; Mr. Emerson is is the son of the late Alderman and had been an officer the army. Norfolk Chronicle, 23 Dec 1815.
Yesterday seven persons some respectability were arrested for vending forged stamps. For several months back the Solicitor to the Stamp Office, in concert with the Magistrates of the Head Police Office, have been employed endeavouring to trace from whence so many forged stamps got into circulation and yesterday Mr. Farrell, Chief Constable, by the magistrates order, posted parties of Officers to various parts of the town to their proceedings, and if possible, once to put stop this very injurious and fraudulent traffic. Mr. Farrell remained himself, with a party at Portobello, where he met a Mr. Joseph White, an attorney, of Camden-street, whom he brought into a public house, and searched, and in one boot was found a dye to make 10/ stamps—in the other a dye to make stamps. Mr. Farrel immediately proceeded search White's house, in which was found a number of stamps, and the frame on which the stamps are struck off. The Peace Officers were so well distributed that almost at the same period all were in custody. At the house of John and Charles Reed of New Dominick-street, a large number were found by the Officers, also in the apartments of John Fogarty, of Bolton-street. Another party found a great quantity stamps in the house another of the name of John Fogarty, of Moore-street —there also a Clerk of the Courts, of the name of Garrigan in custody. The search was so general, and the parties suspected living such considerable distance from each other, that not less than thirty-six Police Officers were employed, and we are happy to say, succeeded in the utmost expectation of the Magistrates in detecting this flagrant imposition the inland revenue. (Dublin Correspondent) Hereford Journal, 29 Nov 1815.
Japhet had been married to Mary Law, probably Circa 1804 and they had 4 children (George, Edward, Jeptha and Mary). His wife and the children accompanied him aboard 'Surrey' in 1816. They subsequently had another child, Elizabeth, born in New South Wales.
IRELAND. Forged Stamps. Mur Burrowes, solicitor to the Stamp office, since his appointment to that situation, has been indefatigable in his endeavours to procure such information as would lead to the detection and apprehension of the persons who have so long inundated this city, and indeed all Ireland, with forged stamps, robbing the revenue of upwards of one hundred thousand pounds annually, and thereby obliging the legislature to make up the deficiency in the revenue by taxing many necessary articles of life. Mr Burrowes having obtained satisfactory information concerning this nefarious traffic, communicated with the magistrate of the head office on the best mode of apprehending all the parties at the same moment, so that the apprehension of one should not give warning to the rest. The whole of this very important business was entrusted to Mr. Farrell, chief constable of the police, and we shall now relate how effectually he executed it. On Friday morning at the hour of eleven o'clock, seven parties of peace officers were assembled at the head office, where each received their route from Mr. Farrell, and which was so secretly managed, that no one man knew what was to be done by any of the other parties. Every thing being thus arranged, each party went to their destined point. Mr. Farrell proceeded to Portobello with a party of nine men, who were posted in the neighbourhood of Camden-street, Charlemont-street, and Portobello, it being known that the person they were looking after, against whom there were informations that he, a few days since, rescued himself from an arrest of a civil nature, did not reside at his house, they watched for some time. After a lapse of two hours and a half, he was perceived advancing in the direction of Old Portobello, and was instantly arrested by Mr. Farrell himself, who asked him, was not his name Japhet White, and produced the warrant for his apprehension; he then brought him to Mr. McGowen's public house, and having got a private room, proceeded to search him, when, in one of his boots, was found a forged die for a twenty pound stamp, and in the other, a similar one for fifty pounds. Mr. Farrell having further business in this neighbourhood, despatched him with a party in a coach to the head office, and sent another party, headed by peace officer Riley, to search Mr. White's house, No. 60, Camden-street; here were found some stamps, paper and parchment, in preparation for stamping, also the blue and silver letters with the R.G. which are affixed to many descriptions of law stamps, with a frame and fly, for the purpose of striking the impression: they were all conveyed to the head office, and he was fully committed to Newgate to abide his trial.