Mary Bryant a mother, wife and a convict on the first fleet to Australia. Mary Bryant was a well-known convict of Australia during the 17-1800’s. Mary Bryant had many failures, successes and important events that happened during her life. She has no specific birth date, but was baptized on the 1st of May, 1765 Fowey, Cornwall and was a daughter of a mariner named Broad who’s family was ‘eminent for sheep stealing’. As you can see by the last sentence she was born into a family of criminals from robbery to assault.
She was charged with assault and theft of silk bonnet, she was sentenced to death for feloniously assaulting Agnes Lakeman Spr in the Kings Highway feloniously putting her in corporal danger of her life…. And feloniously and violently taking from the person and against her will, but shortly after her sentence she was commuted and transported for seven years. She was later taken from Exeter jail to the Hulk Dunkirk just off Plymouth, where she remained until transhipped to transport ‘charlotte’ in the first fleet for Botany Bay. Mary was also soon transported to Sydney cove where she married William Bryant on the 10th of February, 1788. Mary’s
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They were planning to escape with James Butcher, James Martin, William Morth, Sammuel Bird, Alias John Simms, James Scott, Nathaniel Lily and William Allen. When they set sail the boat had a good supply of provisions with Timor the nearest settlement. 69 days later the crew arrived at Timor, the commanding officer at the Timor settlement ask them what they were doing there and they tricked him into thinking that they had been in a shipwreck just off the coast of Timor. Having spent 1 year in Timor Governor general Phillip arrived In looking for the escapees. They found the escapees and transported them back to England Charlotte died on the trip to England and Emmanuel and William died from a disease in