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The Memorandoms of James Martin
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Presented here, for the first time, is an annotated edition of the Memorandoms of James Martin, the only extant first-hand account of perhaps the most famous escape by convicts transported to Australia. The bare facts of this episode are these: on the night of 28 March 1791, Martin, in company with fellow prisoners William Bryant, his wife Mary Bryant (née Broad) and their two children Charlotte and Emanuel, William Allen, Samuel Bird alias John Simms, Samuel Broom alias John Butcher, James Cox alias Rolt, Nathaniel Lillie, and William Morton, stole the governor’s six-oared cutter. In it, the party sailed out of Port Jackson, up and along the eastern and northern coasts of the Australian continent, crossed the Gulf of Carpentaria, and landed at Kupang, in West Timor, on 5 June. There they successfully (for a while, at least) posed as the survivors of a shipwreck, and enjoyed the hospitality of their Dutch hosts. Theirs was an incredible feat of endurance and seamanship, in surviving a two-month journey of over five thousand kilometres in an open boat. The manuscripts comprising the Memorandoms are contained within University College London’s vast Jeremy Bentham Papers collection, which runs to some 60,000 manuscript folios. The edition contains an introduction by Dr Tim Causer, which provides information about the manuscripts, Bentham’s interest in convict Australia and his acquisition of the Memorandoms, context and background to the narrative, and a summary of previous works dealing with the escape. This is followed by annotated versions of Martin’s narrative, which are linked to digital versions of the original manuscripts, allowing readers to fully explore this fascinating primary source
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Memorandoms by James Martin
Get PDFAmong the vast body of manuscripts composed and collected
by the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), held by UCL Library’s Special Collections, is a hugely important document in the histories of European Australia and of convict transportation. The Memorandoms by James Martin is the only known extant narrative written by members of the first cohort of prisoners transported to Australia, is the first Australian convict narrative, and is the only first-hand account of the
best-known Australian convict escape. On the night of 28 March 1791, James Martin, William Bryant, his wife Mary and their two children, and six other male convicts, stole a six-oared cutter and sailed out of Sydney Harbour, up and along the eastern and northern coasts of the Australian continent,reaching West Timor on 5 June. Although they successfully (for a while, at
least) posed as the survivors of a shipwreck and enjoyed the hospitality of their Dutch hosts, they were eventually ordered to be returned to England and the survivors were incarcerated in Newgate Gaol. This new edition of the Memorandoms reproduces the original manuscript alongside an annotated transcript, and features a scholarly introduction and commentary describing the events and key characters, and the contesting interpretations of this famous escape
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