Convict Arther Beardsley 3

Convict John Ayres GI

20 March 1787
Dear journal,
lastnight I stole musicl instrument and just then I got caught.My partner was John Pettitt and the value was 50 shillings.I was sentenced to 7 years transportasion to Botany Bay in 1784.I was a shoemaker and my age is 20.I will be sad leaving my family far away and I will miss them.                                                                                                                                         

Convict William Smith M.D

4.5.1783
Dear journal,
Today I am going to be sentence for stealing 1575 shillings.Why couldn't it be somebody else .I have a wife and a daughter.Who is going to look after the my brother and my sister. Why did I leave for a new  job?I know I am going to be hanged and everybody will be staring and laughing.I have disappinted the family honour.I diserve to die after what I did to my master.Why did I do that why.

By Mackenzie Devine

Convict Isabella Oldflied PG

 
25th May 1787 Dear Journal,I am sentence for 7 years transportion and I am only 25 years old.I stoled pices of materical for my mum and the value of 4 shilling. I was a servent for the rich people.I live in the streets, with my mum and my duaghter.I have a brother called Thomas Oldflied and my name is Isabella Oldfied. I have  heard from people that in Botnay Bay there is  monsters and wild animals. I don't  want to go to the ships called the Friendship.I felt tlike I was very nervous to go on the ship.