Catalogue description List of prisoners on board the Retribution Convict Hulk at Sheerness recommended for...

List of prisoners on board the Retribution Convict Hulk at Sheerness recommended for mercy.

Prisoner Details: Thomas Taylor, aged 41, convicted at Salford [Lancashire] on 25 October 1824 for stealing potatoes. Sentenced to seven years transportation. [Name crossed through].

Prisoner Details: James Chambers, aged 44, convicted at Spilsby [Lincolnshire] on 20 July 1824 for stealing geese. Sentenced to seven years transportation. [Name crossed through].

Prisoner Details: John Rose, aged 34, convicted at Middlesex on 2 December 1824 for stealing carpets. Sentenced to seven years transportation.

Prisoner Details: John Wood, aged 49, convicted at Kingston upon Thames [Surrey] on 27 December 1824 for stealing ducks and fowls. Sentenced to seven years transportation. [Name crossed through].

Prisoner Details: [James Bent], aged 40, convicted at [St Augustines] on 15 April 1825 for stealing lead. Sentenced to seven years transportation. [Name crossed through].

Prisoner Details: Charles Blyth, aged 44, convicted at Warwick [Warwickshire] on 29 March 1825 for stealing leather. Sentenced to seven years transportation.

Prisoner Details: Henry Wheeler, aged 25, convicted at Aylesbury [Buckinghamshire] on 3 March 1825 for stealing fowls. Sentenced to seven years transportation.

Prisoner Details: [John Quitterdon], aged 59, convicted at Maidstone [Kent] on 14 July 1825 for stealing a [fold] pitcher. Sentenced to seven years transportation. [Name crossed through].

Prisoner Details: George Saunders, aged 36, convicted at Maidstone [Kent] on 25 July 1825 for stealing geese. Sentenced to seven years transportation.

Prisoner Details: Thomas Lilley, aged 19, convicted at Chatham [Kent] on 16 August 1825 for desertion. Sentenced to seven years transportation.

Prisoner Details: George Roberts, aged 24, convicted at Chatham [Kent] on 16 August 1825 for desertion. Sentenced to seven years transportation.

Prisoner Details: Thomas Baker, aged 22, convicted at London on 5 September 1825 for stealing a letter containing money. Sentenced to seven years transportation. [Name crossed through].

Prisoner Details: Edward Bold, aged 27, convicted at Stafford [Staffordshire] on 20 October 1824 for grand larceny. Sentenced to seven years transportation. Character 'An old Offender. One of the leaders of the Pottery Gang'. [Name crossed through].

Prisoner Details: Thomas Lee, aged 37, capitally convicted [crime not given] at Middlesex on 11 April 1821 and respited to transportation for life. Annotated 'Mitigated to 14 years Nov 1828'. [Name crossed through].

Prisoner Details: Henry Taylor, aged 52, convicted at Stirling on 17 September 1821 for sheep stealing. Sentenced to transportation for life. Annotated 'mitigated to 14 years Nov 1828'. [Name crossed through].

Prisoner Details: Robert Wright, aged 15, convicted at Middlesex on 6 December 1821 for felony. Sentenced to transportation for life. Annotated 'mitigated to 14 years Apr 1828'.

Prisoner Details: Thomas Jacobs, aged 19, convicted at Middlesex on 17 April 1822 for stealing a handkerchief. Sentenced to transportation for life. Annotated 'mitigated to 14 years Apr 1828'.

Prisoner Details: Patrick Moore, aged 75, convicted at Ayr on 1 May 1822 for uttering forged notes. Sentenced to 14 years transportation.

List completed by W Hatton, Overseer.

Grounds for clemency (recommendation): Being three out of every hundred who have served more than one half of their respective sentences and who are selected as the best behaved men on the hulk for recommendation as deserving of the Royal Mercy.

Annotated: Pardon prepared November 1829.