Catalogue description Folio(s) 35-38. Return [an enclosure in folios 65A-65B] signed by David Burn, Deputy...

Folio(s) 35-38. Return [an enclosure in folios 65A-65B] signed by David Burn, Deputy Overseer, listing the convicts under sentence of transportation moved from various gaols to the Lion hulk at Portsmouth [Hampshire], from 12 October 1790 to 1 January 1791. Sworn before John Carter, Justice of the Peace. The report lists name, age, where and when convicted, sentence and state of health. The ages of convicts are between 13 and 60 and the sentences are either 7 years or a life term.

The following 274 convicts are listed: Samuel Chester, Edmund Camp, John Denny, John Bunn, James Chambers, Matthew Brannon, [John Kentish], Thomas Thorne, John Bates, Damon Titmus, Thomas Harris, Charles Fogle, Thomas Taylor, Roger McGuire, Thomas Chapman, George William Richards, James Wintrup alias James Winter, John Dodd, James Young, Jacob Sandick, [John Douicherty], Thomas Usher, John Wilson, Phillip Gibbons, Thomas Byron alias [Thomas Byrond], James Weeks alias James Wicks, Moses Rathsby, Thomas Ivory, James Gutteridge alias James Brissey, Daniel Colley alias William Collins, James Smith, Simon Starkey, Ezekiel Bentley, John Burford, William Farley, Richard Probyn, Robert Rayner, John Whitby, Thomas Wainwright, Richard James, John Darnley Fletcher, Robert Browitt, William Brown, William Wilson.

John Murphy, Joseph Farrington, Daniel Higgins, Patrick Conner, Richard Bishop, John Wilkinson, John Geary, David Cree, James Carroll, George Lambert, John Stout, William Larter alias William Larbolt, Charles Mann, John McDonald, George Trueman, John Bradnick, Thomas Harwood, William Emery, Joseph Abrahams, William Nobbs, Thomas Hodges, John Smith, John Snow, John Hill, Thomas Perry, George Card, John Brown, Richard Ferris, [Ferrell Kearnon], William Thompson, Matthew Hunt, John Fennell, [William Bass], William Kendrick, George Franklin, George Jones, William Drapper, Henry Palmer, William Hall, Richard Gowen, Robert Maxwell, James Smith, William Golling, Benjamin Richardson, John Showles, Solomon Spencer alias William Davis, John Tier, John Woodward, James Fletcher, Stephen Shore.

Thomas Dalley, William Dalley, Isaac Williams alias [Thomas Horeditch] alias [William Allis], Edward Faulk, William Reynolds, Thomas Powell, James Huntington, John Reed, Thomas Saunders, Andrew Redding, William Jinner, William Pentney alias William Penton, Paine Jacob, John Chambers, John Elton, Thomas Cooper, Samuel Mobbs, Edward Courtnell, John Gosling, John Kingsbury, William Deavers, Edward Read alias Edward Row, [Daniel Swallwod], Robert Silver, John Amey, George Bath, James Hodgkinson, James Simpson, Thomas Lake, Joseph Walsh, Richard Midgeley, William Cambiell, Jeffry Britwell alias Jeffry Bolton, John Holmes, Mark Carter alias Mark James alias [Mark Chasser], John Barras, John Langley, Francis Allam, John Best, John Gell, David Jones, William Hollick, John Steward, Thomas Meakson, Francis Hancock alias Francis Astley alias Rowland Williams, William Arbuckle, Thomas Hinds, George Willison, Barnabas Metcalfe, Robert Lion, William Fox, James Hugill.

Thomas Hugill, Thomas Winstone, John Benn, John Clapshaw, William Rous, [Stephen Richens], John Warren, Matthew Wood, Richard Thorn, Edward Jones, Thomas Haslam, Isaac Sidebotham, William Mason, John Bird, Gilbert Grant, Jasper Whittaker, Thomas Harrison, Thomas Kent, John Gray, John Pybus, Joseph Reeves, John Jones, John Cotts, Joseph Lloyd, James Triffett, George Tennyson, William Allen, Samuel Marchment, Joseph Maund, Henry Carter, Daniel Jackson, John Lee, Thomas Bamford, George Pashley, Joseph Holgate, John Blackburn, Richard Ward, Thomas Hill, John London, John Gould, William Southwell, William Wilson, Joshua Thomas, Thomas Little, Robert Bishop, Thomas Moody, James Glover, Arthur Robinson, Joseph Leister, [Henry Graydery], William Allen.

James Mills, George Holdsworth, Richard Thompson, Henry Price, John Cable, Thomas Moss, Ebenezer Downing, Thomas Able, John Barnes, James Jackson, Richard Speak, Edward Davis, James Clarke, Robert Fardoe alias Robert Farmer, John Bragger alias Thomas Williams, Samuel Willets, Michael Shannon, John McCloud, John Kimber, Daniel McFee, William Griffiths, Edward Griffiths, William Wright, Hugh Gill, James Annison, George Dent, Joseph Dixon, William Topping, James Leach, William Rhodes alias William Mills, Giles Marsh, John Lecky, Richard Collins, George Allen, William Fewler, Edward Robinson, Joseph King, William Booth, Thomas Clayton, William Barker, John Baker, William Smith, Isaac Nichols, John Reeves, Charles Wright, John Justice, Thomas Wade, Simeon Sutcliffe, Thomas Halsall.

William Smith, Michael Fishlock, Cornelius Caine, William Thorne, John Wood, William Anniball, James Ormond, Charles Cavenagh, Benjamin Miles, Thomas Andrews, Rowland Edwards, Isaac Crosby, John Crosby, Matthew Pierpoint, Thomas Massey, William Harris, Francis Fisher, Andrew Gray, John France, Peter Warburton, John Smith, Richard Shuttleworth, John Bensley, Henry Neal, William Gant, William Smith, [James Cam], Royal James King.

The convicts have been employed in alterations and improvements on the 'Weevil Lines' near Gosport.