• Title
  Memorandum regarding three Runaways from N. S. Wales brought round from Batavia on bd. [board] the Nautilus, 31 July [1817]
• Creator
  Lieutenant Barnes
• Call number
  MLMSS 10033/Box 1X
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  31 July 1817
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  1009123
• Physical Description
  0.44 metres of textual material (1 outsize box) - manuscript
  
• Collection history
  From the collection of Kenneth Webster (1906-1967), identified by his circular Webster Collection stamp and subsequent cancellation.
• Scope and Content
  Memorandum, handwritten in ink on 2 1/2 pages of a folded sheet, in which Lieutenant Barnes reports to an unknown person on the attempted escape of three convicts from Botany Bay.
  
  Barnes was the first officer of the Honourable East India Company’s armed brig-sloop, Nautilus. The Nautilus was in Batavia (now Jakarta) when Captain Thomas Raine of the Surrey informed Barnes that he had discovered three Europeans secreted in his ship several days after leaving Botany Bay. The men, Theophilus Mitchell, Henry Heatley and Thomas Prosser, were transferred to the Nautilus.
  
  Additional notations on the memorandum state that Mitchell had shown Captain Raine ‘his certificate of discharge in the part of him being a free man in Port Jackson’ and offering security for his return to Batavia. It was also noted that Prosser claimed to have received a pardon.
  
  Reference: Library correspondence file
  
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Research & study copies allowed: Author has been deceased for more than 50 years
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Some tears along the edges of the memorandum with loss of a few words.
• Date note
  
  The memorandum is dated July 31st with no year recorded. The year 1817 has been estimated from the entry for Friday 21 March 1817 in the journal of the Surrey’s first mate, William L. Edwardson. The Surrey had left Sydney on 17 March bound for London via Batavia, arriving there on 30 June and leaving on 10 July.
  
  Reference:
  William L. Edwardson. ‘Journal of a voyage in the ship Surrey, with Captain Thomas Raine, with convicts from Cork to Port Jackson and return voyage to London, July 1816-June 1818’
• Name
  Raine, Thomas, 1793-1860.
  Surrey (Ship)
  Nautilus (Ship)
  
• Subject
  Convicts--New South Wales.
  Escapes--New South Wales.
  
• Place
  Batavia (Indonesia)
  Botany Bay (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8979674

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