Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's LandReid, Thomas
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Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land
Reid, Thomas
Exiles -- Australia -- New South Wales; Exiles -- Australia -- Tasmania
Calico bed-gowns, 8: petticoats, 8: cotton hose, 15 pairs: linen
pocket-handkerchiefs, 15: night-caps, 15: towels, 15: linen
sheets, 12 pairs: pillow-cases, 24: pewter pans and urinals, of
each 2:, and bucket, of each 2: spitting-pots, 2: tin saucepans,
2: teakettles, 2: ditto to serve as teapots, 21: knives and forks,
15 of each: bathing tub, 1: water purifier, 1: childbed linen, 12
sets: charcoal, 20 bushels: water pails, 3: airing stove, 1: half
pint tin japanned mugs, 120: swing stove, 1: spare beds, 12:
kegs[2] (three gallons), 27.
_Clothing for the Use of the Convicts upon their Arrival._
Brown serge jackets, 120: petticoats, 120: linen shifts, 240:
linen caps, 120: stockings, 120 pairs: shoes, 120 pairs:
neck-handkerchiefs, 120: beds complete, 170: cots, 4: hammocks
slung, 6.
_Clothing for 17 Male Children._
Blue kersey jackets, 17: waistcoats, 17: raven duck trowsers, 17
pairs: shirts, 51: stockings, 34 pairs: woollen caps, 17:
neck-handkerchiefs, 17: shoes, 17 pairs.
_Clothing for 33 Female Children._
Brown serge jackets, 33: petticoats, 33: linen shifts, 66: linen
caps, 33: stockings, 33 pairs: shoes, 33: neck-handkerchiefs, 33.
_Books._
New Testaments, 33: prayer books, 46: psalters, 46: Bibles[3], 12:
manuals of instruction and devotion for the use of the prisoners,
11.
The above ample and truly liberal supply of provisions and extra
articles for the use of the convicts is well worthy of notice, as it is
fully equal to every want to which they are liable; and the minute
particulars are attended to with a concern highly laudable to the
directors of this supply. Indeed, many persons emigrating to distant
countries would consider themselves exceedingly at ease were they
individually as well circumstanced, though driven by the pressure or
dread of domestic distress to seek relief far from their early homes,
with an honest name, and unreproving conscience, yet supplied with
accommodations infinitely short of those thought necessary in providing
for the transmission of the idle, dissolute and criminal, branded with
infamy and crime for which they are driven from society.
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