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Looking for any information on ship named Justitia

Kathy (View posts)
Posted: 8 Oct 1999 5:56PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 2 Mar 2006 11:38PM GMT
Surnames: HALE
A relative of mine - William Hale - is supposed to have been transported from England to New Hampshire on the Justitia. I am looking for any info I can get on this ship.

Re: Looking for any information on ship named Justitia

Lorrie (View posts)
Posted: 10 Oct 1999 11:48AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 2 Mar 2006 11:38PM GMT
I seen the Name of the ship
i dont some where write me so
that i will have you E-Mail address and i will look threw every thing i have.
don't get your hopes up yet
i hate letting people down.
Lorriek5@webtv.net

Re: Looking for any information on ship named Justitia

Leonard May (View posts)
Posted: 3 Jan 2000 7:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 2 Mar 2006 11:39PM GMT
Surnames: MAY
Here is some information I have found on the JUSTITIA that someone referred me to. I also am trying to find information on one of my relatives that was on that ship in 1771 or 1772 named JAMES MAY. Can you send information that you may have on this ship that is not listed below? Thanks and happy hunting.

JUSTITIA
The "Justitia" was a 260 ton prison hulk originally moored in the Thames between Galleons Reach and Barking Reach. She was moored there when the American War of Independence put a stop to the practice of Transportation of criminals to the former colonies. The "Justitia formerly belonged to Duncan Campbell who was appointed to supervise the work of the convicts and provided his own hulk, and also bought the old frigate "Censor" from the admiralty. The convicts were employed "to raise soil, sand and gravel from the bed of the river for the benefit of the navigation of the said river". I don't have details of the ship, or it's ultimate fate, but there is a book called The English Prison Hulks by W. Branch-Johnson, published by Christopher Johnson Publishers Ltd. which provides details.[Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Ted Finch - 20 August 1997]

Re: Looking for any information on ship named Justitia - record of criminals

Posted: 17 Feb 2001 12:48PM GMT
Classification: Biography
Edited: 2 Mar 2006 11:40PM GMT
Surnames: HUMPHREYS, HARDY, FOX, WOODY, HOODY, LEVY, LOVEDAY, MILLS, PARIS, SHOWELL, FERGUSON, EVANS, HILLEY, GILLIS
I have a copy of Justitia's record of criminals transported in December of 1771. The list includes Lewis Humphreys, Duncan Hardy, John Fox, John Woody or Hoody (not sure which), Judah Levy (my ancestory), Elias Levy, Joseph Loveday, Joseph Mills, Jane Paris, John Paris, Thomas Showell, Robert Ferguson, Henry Levy, Edward Evans and Daniel Hilley. Neil Gillis was the Master of the ship. Maybe this will help you.

Re: Looking for any information on ship named Justitia

Tim Hitchcock (View posts)
Posted: 15 Aug 2002 1:06PM GMT
Classification: Biography
Edited: 2 Mar 2006 11:48PM GMT
Surnames: BOND, BIRD
The Captain of the Justitia, Barnett Bond, was tried for murder at the Admiralty Court at the Old Bailey in London in 1744. He was accused of murdering William Bird and several other transportees by starving them to death and denying them water. The voyage was to Maryland. If you want to know about this ship and conditions on board for transportees, this might be a case worth looking at.

See Public Record Office, High Court of Admiralty, Criminal Records, HCA 1 20, part 1, item 9, 'Indictment of Barnett Bond, for the murder of William Bird, 16 April 1744'; also see Gentleman's Magazine, vol.xii, Nov. 1742, p.600

Re: Looking for any information on ship named Justitia

Posted: 17 Oct 2002 11:25AM GMT
Classification: Query
Tim, how about posting the text for us?

Re: Looking for any information on ship named Justitia

Tim Hitchcock (View posts)
Posted: 29 Nov 2002 10:32AM GMT
Classification: Biography
Edited: 2 Mar 2006 11:49PM GMT
Surnames: BOND, BIRD
I am afraid my notes on the indictment were made for a very specific purpose and hence don't include the types of information other people are likely to want. But, for what they are worth, they include the following:

PRO, High Court of Admiralty, Criminal Records, HCA 1 20, part 1, item 9. Indictment of Barnett Bond, for the murder of William Bird, 26 April 1744.

[None of this is legible enough to make a transcript, but the following information can be deciphered: the ship was on its way to Maryland.

…there was also on board the said ship…one William Bird together with divers other persons (to the jurors… unknown) who were to be conveyed to… Maryland….

Bond on the 13th day of April in the sixteenth year aforesaid, upon the River of Thames … and within this jurisdiction …. [goes on about the ship having sufficient provisions.]

…13th day of April … to the fourth day of June… willfully… to cause or permit to be given and allowed to the said William Bird… sufficient water or any other truck necessary for the support… life of the said William Bird….

…Bond did refuse to give and allow…or permit to be given …a sufficient quantity of fresh water or any other drink …. For the support and preservation of the life….

…from the said thirteenth day of April in [1743] …to the … fourth day of June… did Languish and languishing did live and also by means whereof he … about the distance of two hundred leagues from the coast of Maryland…did dye


Re: Looking for any information on ship named Justitia - HALE

Posted: 3 Jan 2003 12:03AM GMT
Classification: Biography
Edited: 2 Mar 2006 11:50PM GMT
Surnames: HALE
The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1776

Hale, William. Transported April 1743 Justitia. Surrey.

Hope this helps

Re: Information ship named Justitia

Wayne (View posts)
Posted: 28 Nov 2003 7:55AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 2 Mar 2006 11:50PM GMT
Surnames: BOND, BIRD, HARRILL, FARRELL, WHITE
Captain Barnett Bond last commanded the Justitia when it set out late in 1742 up Thames river with last post being at Graversend heading to America in April of 1743. It made two other stops prior to Gravesend before making the run to America. Been while since viewed the story of that trip but recall at the time the owners felt they had lost money on the voyage and sought a piece of Bond and used the death of William Bird to get at him. As lost my notes on it and can't find a link to any postings I made of information on this early on will need to go back to my source for additional information.

Do recall that three passengers on board this final voyage with Captain Bond in command were:

1) Thomas Harrill sentenced 1742 and transported in 1743
2) Francis Farrell sentenced 1742 and transported in 1743
3) Hannah White sencenced 1742 and transported in 1743

Only recal this as looking for Harrell back to England and came on Thomas Harrill and noted the Francis ?arrell could have been one of my Francis Harrell and surname White one that later shows with Harrell down the line. Since they all sentenced at same basic time and the transported in 1743 have been working on getting more details on them. So far have found little more than they were shipped on the Justitia probably to Maryland. Have found nothing on their crimes and how long they sent to America for nor where they may have settled in America.

Also have seen later information on the Justitia but due to dates for this feel it a second ship not the one sailed in 1743 under Captain Bond as these dated from 1781 on.... and also American had won it's independence by 1784 from England but they had stopped sending prisoners over back in 1776 or at least by 1781 to America.

Re: Justitia

Ramona Robertson (View posts)
Posted: 2 May 2004 9:14PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 2 Mar 2006 11:46PM GMT
Surnames: WILFORD
I have found that a 6times great grandfather was transported to America aboard the Justitia also. His name was Joseph Wilford. His trial was the 16th of Jan 1766. How would I go about getting the list of convicts that was on that trip? I have found lots of info on other dates, but not for 1766. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
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