Volume 1
Container
Call Number: MS P447
Contains 15 Results:
Brought up in Whitton workhouse; several situations as farmer's boy; ran away up the Trent valley but returned
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Ran away to uncle in Hull and aunt in Gainsborough. "I could not light on a situation on shore and I could not bear the thought of being a sailor."
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Worked in the river sloops
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"I went Prentice to sea out of Gainsbro in the Nottingham Capt John Wilkinson an awful tyrant he was but I served him three years [1793-1796, coastwise shipping]
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Trying to evade press-gangs; coastwise shipping; love-affair
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"A number of girls came through London Bridge in a barge singing Success to the Boys and Girls thats going to Botney Bay. I said I am for you when the Ship is Paid.."
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June 7, 1797 set sail with a mixed lot of prisoners for Botany Bay under Capt. Willcock. New South Wales Corps. Crossing the Equator ceremony
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French prisoners seize the ship off Rio de Janeiro, July 31
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Imprisoned in Montevideo and Buenos Aires; attempted escapes. Learned bootmaking. Imprisoned in St John, St Rockes: overland travel. How to make dung plaster, prickly-pear hedge
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Requests conversion; sent to Santa Fe, Argentina, for instruction. Local kindness. Returned to Buenos Aires for public baptism. Religious doubts
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Shipped secretly, disguised as an American, on the Collumbia out of Newbury port. Set sail in 1801; arrived in America January 1802. Religious doubts
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Voyage from US to Martinique: storm
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Amsterdam; Hull. Trying different religions. Trading to London 7 years, and never could get on shore on the Lord's Day on account of the pressgang. Then heard J. Franklin preach at Redcross St, London. Became a Baptist in 1814. Religious thoughts; repentance
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Religious verse
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Vision in 1830
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