Joseph Sutton

[weemalla]

Joseph Sutton is reported as a convict in the first fleet - referred to by  David Collins in AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY IN NEW SOUTH WALES, and also referred to in letter from Gov Arthur Phillip to Nepean on 23 August 1790, HRNSW, Vol 1 Pt 2, p393, as a convict that tried to escape by hiding on the Neptune as it was about to return to England - so i think these persons would have been correct, but i cannot find Joseph Sutton in the list of convicts sent to aust in First Fleet. I would like to know his details age etc and why he was sentenced to "life in Aust" for. Any help would be appreciated

[cando]

Something odd with the link to what should be the 1st Fleet and keeps bringing up the 2nd Fleet...will search further.

Try this one
http://firstfleet.uow.edu.au/search.html
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/1stfleet.html

and with just a quick search, your Joseph SUTTON does not appear on either website.

With reference to the book by David COLLINS....following on from your quote
http://freeread.com.au/ebooks/e00010.html

By referring to the transactions of the month of September 1790, it will be found that five convicts, John Tarwood, George Lee, George Connoway, John Watson, and Joseph Sutton, escaped from the settlement at Parramatta, and, providing themselves with a wretched weak boat, which they stole from the people at the South Head, disappeared, and were supposed to have met a death which, one might have imagined, they went without the Heads to seek. Four of these people (Joseph Sutton having died) were now met with in this harbour by the officers of the Providence, and brought back to the colony.

So strange that his name does not appear in the list of convicts...

A challenge for rootschatters to find out why


Cando

[Floozy]

I was looking at the Guttenburg project today and saw this.

I have not been looking for your ancestor but this might explain why?

http://gutenberg.net.au/first-fleet.html

see bit down the bottom where it says numbers??

regards Floozy

[cando]

Perhaps all the websites and databases of the first fleet should add...........

From the link by Floozy

Note that there is no definitive list of the people who arrived at Botany Bay in the First Fleet. We will probably never know the exact number and their names.

I think that says it all.

Cando