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History of New South Wales From the Records
VOLUME 1 - GOVERNOR PHILLIP 1783-1789G. B. Barton - 1889
PART III
An Official Estimate of Transportation
"THE following extract from an official letter, bearing date 29 January, 1787, written by Duncan Campbell, superintendent of the convicts on the river Thames, for the information of the Government, furnishes a basis for calculating the number sent annually to America:-
It appears by a calculation I made for the information of the House of Commons some years since, that, upon an average of seven years - from 1769 to 1775, both inclusive - I transported five hundred and forty-seven convicts annually from London, Middlesex, Bucks, and the four counties of the Home Circuit, and that one hundred and seventeen of those transports were women. I always looked upon the number from the other parts of the Kingdom to be equal to what was transported by me.
According to this estimate, the number of convicts transported annually to the American colonies during the period referred to was about one thousand one hundred.
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