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map shows a burgeoning settlement, but no walls or gaol to conine the convicts. It was an ‘open’ prison, where convicts lived in their own tents and huts — and were employed on public works and farms — making escape into the bush relatively easy.
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These were annotated with the colonial milestones that changed the legal status of a convict marking the transition to freedom such as Ticket of Leave, Certificate of Freedom (time expired), Conditional Pardon, Absolute Pardon.
determine why the British government in 1786 decided to establish a penal colony at Botany Bay on the east coast of the newly discovered New South Wales that was situated many thousands of kilometres from English ports and outposts.
Botany Bay as a new British settlement (the letter to Treasury dated I8 August 1786 from Lord Sydney, Secretary of State for the Home Office)' stated categorically that it was so chosen to be the destination urgently needed to rid Britain of an overflow of felons in her prisons, and with no other purpose mentioned, it has been assumed, until
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Botany Bay: the settlement of criminals in New South Wales in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries prisoners would be crammed. For those convicts who remained in Sydney, lodgings were available in a neighbourhood called The Rocks.
