Catalogue description Folio 30: 17 November 1821; Gave Ellen Laughlan magnes sulph. Folio 30: 18 November...

Folio 30: 17 November 1821; Gave Ellen Laughlan magnes sulph.

Folio 30: 18 November 1821; Between 9 to 10pm, John Lowry reported to the chief officer that the convicts were very riotous and there was a cry of murder by Jane Mitchell. They went down and for a time quieted them but as soon as returned the noise began and Mr Lowrey again went down requesting them 'for god's sake not to be so mutinous' and gave them such advice as he was able when Ellen Rourke jeered him and treated him with contempt and then he left them.

Folio 31: 19 November 1821; On investigating the cause of the riot last night I was informed by Ally Peirce and Rose Mcdonald that it was begun by Mary Brady abusing Mary Smith and on Rose McDonald's desiring Mary Brady to hold her peace she damned her soul and told all to go to hell and said she would do as she liked. Margaret Brennan was put out of her own bed and went to Mary Kings bed into which she went, her son after calling to her several times to return to her bed went to Mary King's bed after her, when Rose McDonald insisted on Margaret Brennan's going to her own bed and pushed her and the boy away. Margaret Brennan then went away to Jane Mitchell's bed and attacked her about some bags that were in the bed when Jane Mitchell cried out murder! murder! murder! upon which alarm the chief officer and Mr Lowrey went down to quiet them. During the time that Margaret Brennan was in Mary King's bed, an attack was made with biscuit, shoes and bowls upon those who were quiet in bed and it was ascertained that Mary Brady was the aggressor. After the chief officer had left them Margaret Brennan again began by saying that she knew she should be put into the coal hole but if she was put there 19 times she would have revenge of Jane Mitchell. I ordered Ellen Rourke, Margaret Brennan and Mary Brady to the hatchway and prepared the catarrh seizings and read the 24th article of my instructions with additions, with a promise to flog them all three as an example to the rest, but Mr Lowry interceding for them I ordered them to be confined in the coal hole with collars on. At 6pm went down into the coal hole, when all asking pardon with a promise of quietness I released them.

Folio 31: 20 November 1821; When going down the main hatchway to bed this evening, Mary Brady dislocated the patella which was immediately replaced.

Folio 31: 21 November 1821; Mary Kennedy complaining of bowel pains.

Folio 32: 24 November 1821; At 2pm while attending serving provisions, I observed some pieces of pork which had been dirtied and mangled by the rats. On representing them to the Captain as unfit for the convicts to eat, he had them thrown overboard. About 1pm Patrick Montgomery, a boy relative of a convict going as a free passenger with his mother and brothers to his father a convict at Sydney, accidentally was knocked overboard by the staysail sheet. A boat immediately lowered into which the Captain got and in about 15 minutes returned with the boy who gave signs of returning life.

Folio 32: 25 November 1821; Confined Ellen Keenan and Ellen Purcell or Clarke for quarrelling and fighting on the quarterdeck till evening. On visiting the hospital in the morning I found Patrick Montgomery quite well.

Folio 33: 28 November 1821; At 2:30pm Ellen Clarke having been found in the galley in company with the Captain's Steward, Cook, and Cooper who were quarrelling about her I ordered her aft on the quarterdeck and confined her there until bedtime. At 6pm sent Ellen Clarke below and having mustered all hands to bed locked up for the night.

Folio 33: 29 November 1821; Gave Mary Hindes, Biddy Garraty and several others salts.

Folio 33: 30 November 1821; At 2pm attended serving provisions at which time Mr Lowrey made a complaint against the purser's steward which the Captain deferred investigating until arrival in port. Gave Ann Anderson and Mary Hinds salts.

Folios 33-34: 1 December 1821; Celia Cox having complained of griping pains.

Folio 34: 2 December 1821; Gave Eliza Wilson and Margaret Riley salts and Celia Cox an anodyne.

Folio 34: 3 December 1821; Gave Celia Cox and Rose McDonald some Donkin's concentrated gravy soup which they did not approve preferring gruel. Rose McDonald and Ann Clarke took salts. John Brown, captain's steward having occasioned a disturbance between Ellen Keenan and Ellen Clarke and having been insolent to me upon my desiring him not to interfere with any of the convicts I represented it to the Captain who immediately gave him a severe flogging and in order to prevent any further communication I thought it prudent to confine the two women in prison until our arrival at Sydney.

Folio 34: 4 December 1821; At 8am confined to the quarterdeck for quarrelling Ellen Tucker and Ellen Nolan who promising not to cause any further disturbance were released at 9am.

Folio 35: 6 December 1821; Gave Margaret McCawley and Jane Farley magnes sulph.

Folio 35: 7 December 1821; Bridget Linney and Elizabeth Wilson having grossly abused Mary Moran I ordered them to be locked up in the prison.

Folio 35: 9 December 1821; Bridget Linney and Elizabeth Wilson released from prison. Alice Brown having desired John Brown not to interfere with one of the women in confinement whom he was waiting for and told him he would be scalded again. On my hearing the noise and going there he complained to me and finding that I saw he was in fault he complained to the Captain that I would not punish the women whom I had sent below, when after some altercation between myself and the Captain. The Steward was confined to the quarterdeck so as to have no communication with the women.

Folio 35: 9 December 1821; Bridget Linney and Elizabeth Wilson released from prison.

Folio 35: 10 December 1821; Gave Ally Brown and several other women salts.

Folio 36: 11 December 1821; Biddy Lunny, Eliza Wilson, and Jane Mitchell charged by Catherine Stafford with holding committees and forming mischief and mutiny. It appears that has been their general character in Roscommon and Cork jails and brought on board from the jailors the character of being very dangerous, malignant and undermining, and no account to be credited.