A document signed ('William R'), granting Robert Emett a pardon, conditional on 'his being Transported to New South Wales or Van Diemens Land ... for and during the term of his natural Life'
The document, dated 27 August 1833, is addressed to the Justices of Goal Delivery for the Northern Circuit and the High Sheriff of Lancaster. Convict records indicate Emett, sentenced to death for a malicious shooting, was transported with 252 other convicts to NSW on the 'Hive' in January 1834, arriving..... More