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Sovereign 1795

Convicts on the Storeship Sovereign - 1795
Only one convist is known to have arrived in the colony in 1795 and that was Joseph Gerrald, one of the Scottish Martyrs. The Sovereign took 165 days to make the trip from England to New South Wales, stopping just once at Rio de Janeiro.
NAME STATUS CRIME COURT DATE SENTENCE
Gerrald, Joseph? Convict As yet untraced Edinburgh Court of Justiciary 14 March 1794 14 years
Hibbins, Thomas? Came Free - Deputy Judge Advocate
Kennedy, Elizabeth Charlotte? Came Free
Kennedy, Elizabeth More? Came Free
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