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His best-known work is "A Convict's Tour of Hell". A version of the convict ballad "Moreton Bay", detailing the brutal punishments meted out by commandant Patrick Logan and his death at the hands of Aborigines, is also attributed to Frank. Other convict ballads include "Jim Jones at Botany Bay".
Thomas Barrett (c. 1758 – 27 February 1788) was a convict transported on the First Fleet to the colony of New South Wales.He created Australia's first colonial art work, the Charlotte Medal, which depicts the arrival of Charlotte at Botany Bay.
The use of convict ships to New South Wales began on 18 August 1786, when the decision was made to send a colonisation party of convicts, military, and civilian personnel to Botany Bay. Transportation to the Colony of New South Wales was finally officially abolished on 1 October 1850. [1]
The journal was first published in London in 1789 by Debrett's as A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay: With an Account of New South Wales, Its Productions, Inhabitants, &c. [73] It was one of the earliest published accounts of the First Fleet voyage and the early settlement of Australia. The book ran to several editions and was later ...
After serving over four years in a factory, he was transported to Botany Bay, Australia, in the convict ship Minorca. Blue arrived in Sydney in 1801 and served out the remaining two years of his sentence. In 1804, records show him living in The Rocks, then a slum. There he met Elizabeth Williams, a 30-year-old convict from Hampshire, England ...
An engraving of the First Fleet in Botany Bay at voyage's end in 1788, from The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay. [7] Charlotte was a "heavy sailer"; she had to be towed down the English Channel to keep pace with the rest of the Fleet. [8] Her master was Thomas Gilbert, and her surgeon was John White, principal surgeon to the colony. [9]
William Bryant (c. 1757 – 1791) was a Cornish fisherman and convict who was transported to Australia on the First Fleet.He is remembered for his daring escape from the penal colony with his wife, two small children and seven convicts in the governor's cutter, sailing to Timor in a voyage that would come to rank alongside that of fellow Cornishman William Bligh as one of the most incredible ...
The Cadigal people of the Botany Bay area witnessed the Fleet arrive and six days later the two ships of French explorer La Pérouse, the Astrolabe and the Boussole, sailed into the bay. [67] When the Fleet moved to Sydney Cove seeking better conditions for establishing the colony, they encountered the Eora people, including the Bidjigal clan.