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Mention of the First Fleet for Australia: convicts destined for Botany Bay...
Mention of the First Fleet for Australia: convicts destined for Botany Bay...
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December 09, 1786
JACKSON'S OXFORD JOURNAL, England, Dec. 9, 1786
* Rare 18th century publication
* First Fleet to Australia - convicts
* Botany Bay - penal colony
The front page has a very early report concerning Botany Bay (Australia): "The shipping of stores for the establishment of the intended colony of Botany Bay does on with greate rapidity...rice, rum & tobacco have been very considerable...which prove that government do not attend merely to the sustenance of the new settlers, but also dot their comforts & convenience...Car loads of convicts continue to be sent off at stated periods rto the ships at Deplored, which are appointed to transports them to Botany Bay. About 100 of the are already delivered on board...Yesterday 40 convicts, sentenced for transportation, were brought to town from Norfolk & sent immediately to Deptford to be put on board the ships for the above new settlement. The convicts now in Newgate under sentence of transportation will not be sent with the first fleet to Botany Bay, which is to take only the felons at present on boated the Ballast Lighters..." with more.
The First Fleet was a fleet of 11 ships that brought the first European and African settlers to Australia. It was made up of two Royal Navy vessels, three store ships and six convict transports. On 13 May, 1787 the fleet, with over 1400 people (convicts, marines, sailors, civil officers and free settlers), left from England and took a journey of over 15,000 miles and over 250 days to eventually arrive in Botany Bay, New South Wales, where a penal colony would become the first European settlement in Australia.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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