Catalogue description Prisoner name: Henry Adams . Prisoner occupation: Presently works as a convict in the...

Prisoner name: Henry Adams.

Prisoner occupation: Presently works as a convict in the carpenters' shop at Gun Wharf [Portsmouth].

Court and date of trial: [Not given].

Crime: [Not given].

Initial sentence: [Not given].

Petitioner(s): Two petitions from Henry Adams.

Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): That [Superintendent of Hulks] John Henry Capper's conduct is unjust, oppressive and discriminatory in denying him his tools and his money, is keeping him in double irons of 10 pounds weight and is detaining any letter of complaint that he writes.

Other papers: Letter from Henry Adams to Captain Alexander Lamb (Captain of York hulk) reiterating his complaints about John Henry Capper. Draft note on behalf of Robert Peel responding to the petition and directing the overseer to inform the convict that a felon cannot possess property and he will not give directions for lightening his irons until he behaves with strict propriety, also that any earnings received in Bermuda if he behaved well there were very properly forfeited by his grossly criminal conduct on that station. Letter from Captain Lamb to [Robert Peel] responding to an enquiry from him as to the convict's behaviour which he states to be mischievous and dangerous.

Additional Information: Held on board York convict hulk at Gosport [Hampshire]. Previously held on the convict hulks Leviathan and the Antelope in Bermuda where he injured the mate by stabbing him with a chisel.