(MARYLAND) A True List of all the Malefactors Shipped aboard

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(MARYLAND.) A True List of all the Malefactors Shipped aboard the Margarett, William Greenwood Commander, Bound for Maryland. Manuscript Document Signed by several parties, 2 pages on one sheet, 18 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches; minor wear on top edge and lower left corner, with minimal text loss along center fold. [London], 11 May 1719

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The manuscript list of 113 convicts who were to be delivered to Maryland, signed by the ship commander William Greenwood and the turn-keys of Marshallsea and Newgate prisons. Great Britain sent many such ships full of prisoners to various ports in America and later Australia. This ship was particularly noteworthy as probably the first shipment of prisoners under the Transportation Act, which became law on 10 May 1719, standardizing the process of shipping felons to the North American colonies. The prisoners were sold for about £10 per head to American masters for a term of seven years. A London merchant named Jonathan Forward (named in this document) was granted the concession for arranging the sales. See Howson, Thief-Taker General . . . Crime and Corruption as a Way of Life in Eighteenth-Century England, page 91; Norton, Early Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Reports.