JB/119/039/004

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men are not allow'd to go into the Hospitals. The
smell of the Hospital don't affect the other parts of
the Ship. The Hospital don't smell of .

The Surgeon provides the medicines and I pay
him for them.

I have been employ'd in transporting
men many years. I had £5 a man. The
£5 was for nourishing them and their conveyance.

I carried them to Virginia and Maryland:
those were the only places I could contract to carry
them to. I enquired about the Floridas and
was told they could not take one ship's load. I
don't know the Floridas.

Transported Felons are employ'd in Maryland
in manual labour.

I have been in Virginia and Maryland
and have heard that Robberies have lately been
committed by Felons sent there, but they did not
rob in those colonies, but in the neighbouring ones.

To send Felons to Florida the expence
would be so great I would not contract to carry them
there.

In the West India Islands there is a Law
to prohibit taking Transports: they are obliged
to keep a proportion of whites to the Blacks, &
convicts are not considered among the Whites.

I have heard of great losses — of deaths in
Families in Virginia and Maryland, which are imputed
to the infection received from the Convicts.

The Navigation to St Augustine & Pensacola is
more difficult than to America, especially for a ship of any size.

Identifier: | JB/119/039/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	039	Info in main headings field	hulks
Image	004	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39550
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