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reward · 1844

Sixty Pounds Reward or a Conditional Pardon offered for six convicts who escaped Newcastle Hospital on 21 April 1844, seized the cutter 'Brothers' at anchor, landed near Seal Rock north of Port Stephens and were thought to be making for Moreton Bay: James Edwards (Royal Admiral), Henry Elgar (Waterloo), Henry Hughes (Exmouth), Samuel Ringwood (Henry Porcher/Moffatt), Buchannan Wilson (Marquis Huntley) and Robert Whitehead (Lord Lynedoch). Issued by the Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney.

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Sydney, 8th April, 1844. SIXTY POUNDS REWARD, OR A CONDITIONAL PARDON.

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New South Wales Government Gazette, No. 44, 10 May 1844.