Correspondence and Papers, Departmental. Council Office, 1782-1812

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Series HO 31

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This Series is largely composed of Orders in Council received by the Home Office in connection with the establishment of the penal settlement in New South Wales, and the transportation of convicts to that Colony. It may be divided into two sections:

1. Orders in Council, 1786-1794. Volume 1.

These are arranged in chronological order mostly concerning Orders in Council appointing 'the Eastern Coast of New South Wales or some one or other of the islands adjacent to be the Place to which the said several offenders whose names are contained in the said lists hereunto annexed may be transported.'

The following lists give the name, sentence, place and date of sentence for each prisoner. These are neither in alphabetical nor chronological order.

2. Proceedings and Correspondence, 1785-1799. Volumes 14-15.

From these were copied seven letters, arranged chronologically, mostly from the office of the Committee of the Privy Council for Trade, concerned with agriculture, fishing and coinage for the Colony.

The Australian Joint Copying Project filmed selected extracts only from the pieces in this Series.

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