1841 Travel Pass for Joseph Toogood, Convict Sawyer

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1841 Travel Pass for Joseph Toogood, 21st August 1841 permission issued and signed by Henry Dalway (in the absence of the A.P.M.) for Joseph Toogood, a Prisoner holding a Ticket of Leave, to travel from George Town to Whirlpool Reach where he was assigned to work for Mr. James Barrett until the 29th September 1841. His physical description is provided in manuscript on reverse: 32 years old, fresh appearance, a sawyer who arrived aboard the Argyle., Joseph Toogood [1808 - 1842] was found guilty of House Breaking at the Somerset Assizes and was sentenced to Transportation for Life. He arrived in Van Diemen's Land in August 1831 aboard the Argyle. He had been charged with conspiracy while on board and was 'removed' on arrival to Macquarie Harbour, one of the harshest penal settlements. In October 1832 he received 25 lashes for 'refusing to work as a sawyer'. He obtained his ticket-of-leave sometime before 1840 but got into a drunken brawl at a pub in Launceston in September 1842 and appears to have died as a result of the injuries he sustained. [A transcript of the statements of two witnesses to the Coronial Inquest into his death accompanies this lot.]

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