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BENJAMIN BRISCOE

Convict No 8078

Ship Name “ Calcutta ”

Departure Date 24.04.1803

Departure Point Portsmouth

Arrival Date: 1.01.1804

Other records Con 22/1 Page 53

"Umbrella Maker, aged 21 [at trial], of Stepney, 5'6", fair complexion. Tried at Middlesex IV Sessions (London G.D.) 28 April 1802 for stealing a pocket-book containing two banknotes (1 pound each) from James Barton, clerk to a Mr Callaghan, St. Swithin's Lane. Sentence pronounced by the recorder was transportation for seven years.

Arrived on the Calcutta Departed Portsmouth 4/24/1803 and Arrived in Hobart 1/1/1804. Gaoled at Poultry and transferred to the 'Captivity' hulk at Portsmouth .

He attended the Hobart musters in 1811 and 1818. Together with John Cruse (q.v.) he absented himself from labour in 1807 and was tried by [Rev. Robert] Knopwood and others who sentenced him to 300 lashes.

Drowned when Urias Allender's ferry was overturned between Hobart and Kangaroo Point, 24 September 1819. [This date differs from other sources recorded]. Briscoe [had] received a 50-acre land grant from Gov. Macquarie, which was farmed by his widow, together with a further 20 acres which she purchased after his death...An uncle, Capt. Brimstone, assisted with the upbringing of the children."

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