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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.
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.
On 18 August 1786, the decision was made to send a colonisation party of convicts, military, and civilian personnel to Botany Bay under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip, who was appointed as Governor of the new colony. There were 775 convicts on board six transport ships.
those who made the Botany Bay decision in August 1786. 'The East coast of New South Wales' was simply the last choice left in a succession of attempts to find a destination to which British convicts could be sent after the American destination had been closed to them. The theory that Botany Bay was founded primarily to become a new
Upon arrival in a convict colony, port regulations forbade all but the ship’s Surgeon-Superintendent to make land until permission was formally granted by the Colonial Governor, so it was the surgeon who conveyed the indenture – and with it control of the convicts – to the Governor who in turn deposited it in the Colonial Secretary’s ...
28 Απρ 2020 · Botany Bay on the Australian coast, he contended, would be the best site for a penal colony since it had a Mediterranean climate and would be fertile. Banks added, too, that. there would be...
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.
