What did they steal?

Most people stole food, or things they could sell easily.

John Price stole a goose; twenty-two year old Elizabeth Powley took some bacon, flour, raisins and butter from a kitchen; and West Indian Thomas Chaddick raided a kitchen garden for some cucumbers. Fifteen year old John Wisehammer stole some snuff (powdered tobacco that was sniffed, not smoked), and William Douglas picked a silver watch from a gentleman’s pocket.

All of these people were driven to petty crimes by hunger. All were transported to Australia.

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