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Title
Charles Taw and others - statements concerning the seizure of the government brig Frederick at Macquarie Harbour, 1834
Creator
Charles Taw
Call number
DLADD 160
Level of description
fonds
Date

1834
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
447939
Physical Description
1 folder - 0.03 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

On 13 February 1834 ten convicts seized the government brig Frederick which was about to sail on her maiden voyage from Macquarie Harbour to Hobart. While the captain was waiting for the wind to change Porter and his companions overwhelmed the guard and crew and abandoned them on the shore. Eventually the castaways reached the Van Diemen's Land Company's base at Cape Grim on the north coast. Meanwhile the convicts sailed the brig across the Pacific before scuttling her off the coast of Chile and making their way in the whaleboat to Valdivia. There they assumed new identities as shipwrecked sailors.
Scope and Content
Statements (or Informations) in duplicate made by the captain, crew and military guard of the Frederick on 27 February 1834: Charles Taw (captain), James Tait or Tate (Mate), David Hoy (Master Shipwright), Philip Kent (Private in the 63rd Regiment), William Nickols (convict servant), Joseph MacFarlane (convict), Henry Dearman (Corporal in the 63rd Regiment), William Gillespie (Private in the 63rd Regiment, Henry Gathercole (Private in the 63rd Regiment). Also included are additional statements by Charles Taw and David Hoy dated 1 February and James Tait dated 2 February.
Finding Aids
Read the transcription here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D00020/a1695.html
General note

Digital order no:Album ID : 823764
Name
Frederick (Ship)
Subject
Convicts--Tasmania.
Escapes--Tasmania.
Dixson Library (N.S.W.)
Exhibited in

On the Run. Daring Convict Escapes - State Library of New South Wales (6 November, 2006 - 9 February, 2007)
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