The Campbelltown Convicts
Hinds, Peter J
2018 revised edition, with additional materialOn 19 March 1818, a young man called John Champley was committed to the House of Correction in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, for two years' hard labour. He had been convicted of being a party to the theft of eighty pounds of butt leather in Pocklington on 13 December 1817.Four months later, after an attempted escape from the House of Correction, he was sentenced to transportation to one of His Maje...