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Details for the convict Joseph Ewbank (1814)

Convict Name:Joseph Ewbank
Trial Place:Middlesex Gaol Delivery
Trial Date:13 January 1813
Sentence:7 years
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Arrival Details
Ship:General Hewitt
Arrival Year:1814
 
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Joseph Ewbank 1777-1814

Joseph was baptised at St Paul, Covent Garden, London in 1777. By the early 1800s he was a barrister’s clerk.
Joseph’s downfall comes when, on January 13 1813, he:
“was indicted, for that he, on July of 25 … was clerk to William Owen barrister at law, and was employed and entrusted by him to receive money for him, and being such servant, so employed and entrusted did receive the sum of 2l. 2s for and on account of his said master, and that he afterwards did secrete and steal the same.”
He was found “Guilty, aged 36” and sentenced to “Transportation for Seven Years.”
A report of the trial in the Morning Chronicle newspaper dated January 20 1813, indicated “that from motives of leniency, Mr Owen had abstained from indicting the prisoner capitally”
Joseph was held at Newgate prison.
Joseph departed on the General Hewitt on August 26 1813. Over 27 days 515 people embarked – including 300 male convicts.
After calling at Madiera, they reached Rio de Janeiro on November 17 1813. On February 7 1814, after 165 days, the General Hewitt arrived in Port Jackson, by which time thirty four convicts had died - mostly of contagious dysentery.
A Report, dated September 30 1814, concluded that the conduct of the Commander had been highly culpable in some instances.
Joseph lived for a further one and a half months, dying on March 30 1814 – as is recorded in a classified advertisement placed by the executor he appointed in his last Will and Testament. The executor indicated he had instructions to remit to “his Family in London the Amount of such Property as he died possessed of in this Colony.” He was seeking “Money or Property of any Description belonging to the Estate and Effects of the Deceased.”
Joseph was buried in the Old Sydney Burial Ground - recorded as “RST: Convict RM.” His final burial place is unknown as “In 1869 …. all burials were to be resumed” and “there is little evidence of the final disposition of the original burials.”
He is gone, and was probably long forgotten – but now remembered.

Submitted by Researcher (Brian Reid) on 25 April 2019

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Sources

  • The National Archives (TNA) : HO 11/2, p.120

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