Transmission of convicts for Botany Bay.
Wednesday morning, between 3 and 4 o'clock
the embarkation of convicts from Newgate
and Kilmainham Jails Dublin, took place. The
Jailers and Sheriffs of the City and County were
in attendance, and got the victims to crime double
bolted, on jaunting-cars, and with an escort of
Horse, proceeded to the Pigeon house dock, where
they were shipped on board the brig Betsy,
bound for Cork. Their numbers and counties are
as follows:
County of the City of Dublin.
Antrim
Armagh
Down
Kildare
King's County,
Longford
Leitrim
Louth
Meath
Roscommon
Westmeath
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From Newgate,
From Kilmainham,
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
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26
13
7
9
2
13
1
5
12
7
10
7
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Total---All males
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112
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