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Richard Partridge -
SCARBOROUGH
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First Fleet – “Scarborough”
1788
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Born in England – 1759
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Sentenced to transportation –
7 years at Old Bailey 30/4/1783 for theft of
linen shirt apron and cotton stockings.
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On 16/8/1783 he embarked on
the “Swift” to America. The convicts mutinied
and ran ashore near Sussex.
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Richard was captured and
retried at the Old Bailey. Sentenced to death –
reprieved – sentenced to transportation to
Australia
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At Port Jackson was
associated with Mary Greenwood ( First Fleet –
Lady Penrhyn)
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On 3/11/1793 a son ( Richard
Jnr) was born
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On 27/7/1791 Partridge was
designated as alias “Rice”
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He was known in NSW as “Rice
the left handed Flogger”
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Richard Partridge was the
“Jailer” during the Battle of Vinegar Hill
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On 30/9/1794 Richard was
pardoned. He was made a Watchman in 1795, a
Constable in 1796 and was granted 60 Acres at
Northern Boundary Farms
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Mary Greenwood bore him a
daughter, Mary in 1797
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On 5/11/1810 he made a legal
marriage with Mary Greenwood
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In 1815 he had a contract for
the carriage of bricks and materials for the
Government Buildings and supplied provisions for
the working party under William Cox constructing
the new road across the Blue Mountains, the
contract was extended in 1816 to convey
provisions to the detachment of the 46th
Regiment and workers stationed at Parramatta and
Cox’s river.
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He died on 25/5/1831 aged 72.
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Buried at St John’s
Parramatta.
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