A Commonwealth of Thieves

by Thomas Keneally

  Phillip as shark totem: Atkinson, p. 38.

  Phillip's May 16 dispatch to Lord Sydney: HRA, vol. I, p. 18.

  White and Balmain: see in particular White, pp. 47–50.

  Gardens: Collins, p. 13; Clark, p. 113.

  Bradley: ADB, alphabetical listing; Victor Crittenden, Naval Men of the First Fleet, pamphlet.

  Visit to La Pérouse: King, pp. 37–39.

  French visit, Sydney Cove: amongst others, Collins, pp. 11, 12.

  Death of Fr. Receveur: Collins, vol. I, p. 16; King, Journal, pp. 39, 40; Tench, p. 55.

  Chapter Eight

  Landing of women: Bowes, p. 67.

  The bacchanalia: Bowes, as above.

  Tench's view: Tench, p. 39.

  Reading of commission, extent of claim: Collins, p. 6.

  Phillip's speech: Collins, vol. I, p. 6.

  Rations: Collins, p. 7; Tench, pp. 12, 83.

  Neglect of ships' captains: Bowes, p. 69.

  First court-martial: Clark, p. 96.

  Chapter Nine

  Reverend Johnson: Bonwick, pp. 62–63; Porter, pp. 63, 192–94.

  Service of February 10, christening, and marriages: Collins, vol. I, p. 14; Clark, p. 97.

  Smuggling: Cal Winslow, “Sussex Smugglers,” in Hay, p. 119 onwards; also Hay, pp. 260, 267; Porter, pp. 114–15.

  Women's camp and expulsion of sailors: Bowes, p. 70.

  Fisher and Hart: Gillen, alphabetical listings; Bowes, p. 79.

  First criminal cases, judge-advocate's court: Collins, vol. I, p. 7; Tench, pp. 44, 100–101.

  Flogging: Nagle, p. 178.

  Flogging of women: Easty, p. 98.

  Chapter Ten

  La Pérouse and natives: Tench, p. 170; Collins, vol. I, p. 16.

  Visit by elders: Bowes, pp. 69–70.

  Aboriginal culture and burial: Collins, pp. 454–55, 499–505; Mulvaney and Kamminga, pp. 95–96, 359–61.

  Ancient burials: Mulvaney and Kamminga, pp. 154–55, 161–68.

  Native tools: an excellent summation in Smith, Bennelong; Collins, vol. I, pp. 486–88.

  Garden Island raid: Collins, vol. I, p. 13; Tench, pp. 215–16.

  Collins laments end of good relations: as above.

  Nagle and natives: p. 99.

  Chapter Eleven

  King and Norfolk Island: King, Journal, p. 40 onwards.

  Jamison and Colley: alphabetical listing ADB, vol. I; for Jamison, alphabetical listings, Gillen and Chapman; King, pp. 43, 44.

  Oaths of abjuration and assurance: C. M. H. Clark, vol. I, pp. 78–81.

  Tom Barrett et al.: Collins, p. 8; Tench, pp. 44, 101; White, p. 129.

  Awesome nature of executioner: Hay, p. 66.

  Bloodworth: see alphabetical listing, Gillen, Chapman; alphabetical listing, ADB, vol. I; Collins, p. 115.

  Unloaded ships: John Cobley, Sydney Cove, 1788, pp. 110–11; Collins, vol. I, p. 18.

  New rations: Tench, p. 83.

  Phillip and officers: Collins, vol. I, pp. 104, 105.

  Conflict over Hunt sentence: Easty, p. 99; Cobley, 1788, pp. 104–5.

  Anti-scorbutics and venereal disease: White, pp. 113, 120, 133, 135, and notes, p. 243; Collins, vol. I, pp. 20, 373, 495–96.

  Chapter Twelve

  Exploring Broken Bay: Nagle, pp. 100–102; Hunter, pp. 95–108; Phillip to Sydney: HRA, vol. I, p. 18; Collins, p. 15.

  Cooee: Hunter, p. 103.

  Phillip's health on return: see Phillip's health in Frost, Phillip: His Voyaging; White, pp. 127, 131; but see also Bowes Smyth, p. 77.

  Looking for land along Parramatta River: White, pp. 127–31.

  Discovery of Rose Hill, Parramatta: White as above; Phillip to Sydney, HRA, vol. I, p. 18.

  Departure of ships: Collins, vol. I, p. 18.

  Attack on Ayres and Burn: Collins, vol. I, p. 24; Tench, pp. 50, 104–5; Hunter, pp. 53–54.

  Oakey and Davis: as above.

  Reactions of Hunter and others: Hunter, p. 54.

  Phillip's expedition and parley: Collins, pp. 24–25.

  Phillip to the Marquess of Lansdowne: see Arthur Phillip, Copies and Extracts of Letters from Governor Phillip: Giving an Account, etc.

  McEntire: Phillip in Hunter, p. 326; Tench, pp. 49, 105.

  Henry Kable and the law: ADB, alphabetical listing; Gillen, Chapman, alphabetical listing; White, pp. 148, 149.

  The Bryants: as for Kable, also alphabetical listing (Braund for Broad), Cobley, Crimes; White, p. 88; Collins, pp. 44, 45.

  Corbett: as for above; then Tench, p. 61; Collins, vol. I, pp. 26, 27, 541n.

  King's birthday: Collins, vol. I, p. 25; Tench, p. 60; White, p. 140.

  Phillip in pain: as above.

  County of Cumberland: Collins, p. 25; White, p. 140; Tench, pp. 60, 112.

  Sam Payton: White, p. 43; Tench, p. 61.

  Earthquake: White, pp. 141–42; Collins, vol. I, p. 27.

  Sam Payton's letter: Tench, pp. 62–63.

  Execution of Corbett and Payton: Tench, pp. 61–63.

  Chapter Thirteen

  Ross to Evan Nepean: 10 July 1788, Cobley, pp. 187, 188.

  Campbell to Lord Ducie: 12 July 1788, Cobley, pp. 191–93.

  Phillip to Lord Sydney: July, September, HRA, Series I, vol. 1, pp. 46–48, 73, 77–78, 86–87.

  Phillip to Nepean: HRA, as above, pp. 46, 55 (private letter).

  The last transports vanish: Collins, vol. I, p. 38; Tench, p. 137; Bateson, p. 118.

  The journey of the transports: Bateson, pp. 118, 119.

  Failure of germination: Collins, pp. 31, 33.

  Phillip orders Sirius to Cape Town: Hunter, p. 61; Tench, pp. 79, 120; Collins, vol. I, pp. 33, 34, 55.

  Settlement of Rose Hill/Parramatta: Hunter, pp. 94, 95; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 300–303; Collins, pp. 37, 40, 42, 103; Tench, pp. 79, 136.

  Augustus Alt: ADB, vol. I, alphabetical listing; Collins, pp. 10, 123; White, pp. 7, 125.

  Aboriginal goat raid: Collins, p. 32.

  Phillip asks Nepean for clothes for natives: HRA, as above, p. 46.

  Capture of Arabanoo: Hunter, pp. 132, 133; Collins, vol. I, p. 49; Tench, p. 139.

  Arabanoo in Sydney: Hunter, pp. 92, 93; Tench, pp. 142–45; Collins, vol. I, pp. 40, 43.

  Convict raid on Botany Bay: Tench, pp. 144, 145.

  Ration reduction: Collins, vol. I, p. 35.

  Emergence of smallpox: Collins, pp. 496, 497; Hunter, pp. 92–94; Tench, pp. 146–49.

  Surgeon White's “variolous material”: Alan Frost, Botany Bay Mirages, “The Mark of Cain,” pp. 190–210.

  Finding and treatment of sufferers: Tench, pp. 146–48; Hunter, pp. 115, 116; White, pp. 19, 23; Collins, vol. I, pp. 53, 483.

  Arabanoo and smallpox: Tench, pp. 147, 148.

  Onset of syphilis and gonorrhoea: Collins, vol. I, pp. 20, 295–96.

  Death of Arabanoo: Tench, p. 149; Collins, p. 54; Hunter, pp. 115, 116.

  Chapter Fourteen

  Building of storehouses: Hunter, pp. 93–94.

  Discovery of crime: Hunter, p. 94; Tench, p. 145; Collins, vol. I, p. 49.

  Frazier: Tench, pp. 295, 296; also alphabetical listings, Chapman, Gillen.

  Trial and execution of marines: Tench, p. 145; as for discovery of crime.

  Sirius's journey: Hunter, pp. 61–76; Nagle, pp. 105–9.

  Bread roll for government house dining: Tench, p. 166.

  Chapter Fifteen

  New crowding in Britain's prisons: Byrne, Blackheath Connection, cyber book, chap. 34; Michael Flynn, The Second Fleet: Britain's Grim Convict Armada of 1790, p. 17; Siân Rees, The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary Story of the Lady Julian and Its Cargo of Female Convicts Bound for Botany Bay, pp. 1–23.

  William Richards: Byrne, Blackheath Connection, cyber book, especially chaps. 34 and 38; Flynn, pp. 13, 14, 127, 131; Bateson, p. 20.

  Tak
ing up and fitting of Lady Juliana: Bateson, pp. 120–22; John Nicol, Life and Adventures, 1776–1801, pp. 113–26.

  Captain Aitken: Bateson, pp. 120, 121; Rees, p. 60; Nicol, p. 114.

  Lieutenant Edgar: Bateson, ibid.; Nicol, pp. 116, 123; Rees, pp. 60, 62.

  Catherine Heyland: Flynn, Second Fleet, alphabetical listing; Rees, pp. 78–80.

  Margaret Sullivan: Rees, pp. 80–82.

  Women offered King's mercy: Rees, pp. 84, 85.

  Sarah Cowden: Flynn, non-alphabetical, p. 658; Rees, pp. 85, 86, 91, 92.

  Nellie Kerwin (spelled Kirvein in Second Fleet records; also Karavan): Flynn, alphabetical listing under Kirvein; Rees, pp. 51, 63, 83–89; Nicol, pp. 120, 121.

  Acceptance of King's mercy: Rees as above; Flynn, alphabetical listings.

  Mrs. Barnsley: Flynn, alphabetical listing; Rees, pp. 70, 71; Nicol, pp. 115, 116.

  Nicol in love: Nicol, pp. 121, 122.

  Departure: Bateson, p. 120; Rees, pp. 96–99; Nicol, p. 121.

  Nepean to Phillip: 20 June 1789, HRA, Series I, vol. I, p. 120.

  Chapter Sixteen

  King's birthday, 1789: Tench, p. 152; Collins, vol. I, pp. 57, 58.

  The Recruiting Officer: Collins, vol. I, as above.

  Time-expired convicts: Collins, vol. I, pp. 60, 61.

  Especially Cullyhorn: Gillen and Chapman, sometimes under Calleghan or Callighan, alphabetical listings; Collins, 548 n.; Cobley, 1789–1790, pp. 63–65.

  Problems with supplies: Collins, vol. I, pp. 68, 69.

  John Harris and the night watch: Collins, vol. I, pp. 63, 64, 70; Hunter, p. 140.

  Collins's opinion: Collins, vol. I, p. 70.

  Grenville: Flynn, pp. 26, 27; Atkinson, p. 78.

  Camden, Calvert and King and their contract: Flynn, pp. 26–41; Bateson, pp. 32, 131, 132; Byrne, Blackheath Connection, cyber book, chap. 38.

  The recruitment of the New South Wales Corps: Flynn, pp. 28, 29; Blackheath Connection, chap. 38; Michael Duffy, Man of Honour: John Macarthur, early chapters.

  Preparations of three transports: Flynn, as previously; Bateson, pp. 126, 127; Blackheath Connection, as previously; Duffy, early chapters.

  HMS Guardian: Flynn, pp. 19, 24; Bateson, p. 124; Rees, pp. 72, 75.

  Ruse's record: ADB, vol. II, alphabetical listing; Collins, vol. I, p. xix; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 301, 351, 364; Tench, pp. 197–98; Atkinson, pp. 169–71.

  Phillip's plan: Phillip in Hunter, p. 301; the rest as above.

  Major Ross's view: 10 July 1788, Ross to Nepean, Cobley, 1788, that date.

  Tench on capturing natives: Tench, pp. 158, 159.

  Bradley's expedition and capture of two natives: Bradley journal, and illustration, p. 182 of journal.

  Colby and Bennelong in Sydney: Tench, pp. 159, 309; Collins, vol. I, p. 71; Hunter, pp. 116, 139–42: Bradley, journal, online.

  Banks's view: quoted, Nicholas Thomas, Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook, pp. 80, 81.

  Colby's escape: Collins, vol. I, p. 71; Tench, p. 159; Hunter, p. 116.

  Bennelong's Sydney career continued: Tench, pp. 159, 160, 167; Collins, vol. I, p. 92; Hunter, p. 132; King in Hunter, p. 269.

  Name exchange: Tench, pp. 160, 161.

  Regional tribes and clans: Willey, frontispiece map and pp. 14–16; Clendinnen, frontispiece map and pp. 107, 273. Web search also recommended under “Eora people.”

  King on native borders: King in Hunter, p. 268.

  Aboriginal authority system: Collins, vol. I, pp. 452–55, 460, 461, 488–92.

  Bennelong's escape: Collins, vol. I, p. 92.

  Chapter Seventeen

  Ross to Norfolk Island: Tench, p. 63; King in Hunter, pp. 254, 245; Collins, vol. I, p. 78.

  Hunger in Sydney Cove: Tench, p. 166; Collins, vol. I, pp. 97, 103.

  Phillip's generosity: Collins, vol. I, p. 88.

  Sirius and Supply to Norfolk Island: Hunter, pp. 118–19; Collins, vol. I, pp. 78, 80; Ralph Clark, p. 116.

  Wrecking of Sirius: Hunter, pp. 120–23; King in Hunter, pp. 254–57; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 382, 383; Clark, Journal, pp. 121, 122.

  Ross declares martial law: Clark, Journal, p. 122; King in Hunter, pp. 254, 255.

  Mutton birds: Hunter, pp. 125–26; King in Hunter, p. 214; Clark, Journal, pp. 285, 293.

  Ross's allocation of land: Atkinson, pp. 228, 229, 231.

  Ross as light punisher: Clark, Journal, pp. 201, 219, 223.

  Chapter Eighteen

  Riou and the Guardian: Bateson, pp. 124, 125; Rees, pp. 161, 162.

  Lady Juliana's progress to Rio: Bateson, pp. 121, 122; Nicol, pp. 121–27; Rees, pp. 111–60.

  HMS Guardian's collision with ice: Bateson, pp. 124, 125; Rees, pp. 177, 178; Flynn, pp. 24, 25.

  Return of Guardian to Cape Town and arrival of Lady Juliana: Nicol, p. 128.

  Transfer of people and supplies to Lady Juliana: Rees, p. 183; Nicol, p. 128.

  Emancipation of Bloodworth and Guardian men: Collins, vol. I, pp. 115, 160, 161.

  Sydney ration reductions: Tench, p. 166; Collins, vol. I, pp. 97, 103.

  Surprize, Scarborough, Neptune: Flynn, pp. 30, 31; Bateson, pp. 126, 127.

  Arrival of soldiers: Flynn, p. 35.

  Loading of transports: Flynn, pp. 32–34; Bateson, pp. 128–31.

  Robert Towers: Flynn, alphabetical listing.

  Trail and Shapcote: Bateson, pp. 126, 128, 130; Flynn, pp. 27, 33, 35; Tench, p. 173.

  Evan Nepean to naval agent: Flynn, p. 39.

  Grenville to Phillip: HRA, pt. II, vol. I, p. 120.

  Harriet Hodgetts: Flynn, alphabetical listing.

  Chapter Nineteen

  John Macarthur: For a study of Macarthur's origins, see Michael Duffy, Man of Honour: John Macarthur; ADB, vol. II, alphabetical listing; Flynn, pp. 37–41; John Ritchie, The Wentworths, Father and Son, pp. 33, 34.

  Nicholas Nepean: ADB, vol. II, alphabetical listing; Flynn, pp. 13, 26, 32, 39–42.

  Conflict with Gilbert: Flynn, pp. 35–41; Ritchie, pp. 32–35.

  D'Arcy Wentworth's career as a highwayman: Ritchie, pp. 1–24.

  Captain Trail and the Neptune: Ritchie, pp. 29, 32–40.

  Primitive sanitation: Elizabeth Macarthur's Journal, HRNSW, vol. II, p. 366.

  The Macarthurs' discomfort: as for previous note.

  Female convicts on Neptune: Ritchie, p. 30; Flynn, p. 33.

  D'Arcy and Catherine Crowley: Ritchie, pp. 31, 34; Flynn, alphabetical listing.

  Chapter Twenty

  The Justinian: Flynn, pp. 32, 43.

  The journey of the Second Fleet proper: Bateson, pp. 126–29; Flynn, pp. 42–48.

  Elizabeth Macarthur: HRNSW, vol. II, p. 489.

  The Macarthurs' transfer to Scarborough: Flynn, p. 48.

  Captain William Hill: 26 June 1789, HRNSW, vol. I, pt. 2, p. 367; MSS 6821, ML.

  Hill's attitude to shackles and lack of exercise: as for previous note.

  Arrival of Lady Juliana in Sydney Cove: Tench, pp. 169, 170; Collins, vol. I, pp. 93, 96; White, pp. 20, 21; Hunter, p. 128; Phillip in Hunter, p. 299.

  Arrival of Justinian: Tench, p. 172; Hunter, p. 128; Phillip in Hunter, p. 301.

  Arrival of Surprize: as for previous note.

  Erection of portable hospital: Collins, vol. I, pp. 101, 103; White, p. 21.

  Arrival of Neptune and Scarborough: Collins, vol. I, pp. 99, 100, 106, 107; Tench, pp. 172, 173; Phillip in Hunter, p. 301.

  The Reverend Johnson and the sick: Bonwick, pp. 91–97.

  Captain Hill's estimation of the Sydney Cove area: HRNSW, vol. I, pt. 2, p. 367; MSS 6821, ML.

  And of Parramatta: as for previous note.

  Convict women making clothes: Tench, p. 166.

  Leasing of Surprize to go to Norfolk Island: Phillip in Hunter, p. 301; Ritchie, p. 52; Collins, vol. I, p. 106.

  Rations on Norfolk: Collins, vol. I, p. 135.

  Wentwort
h's arrival and birth of his son: Ritchie, pp. 52, 53.

  John Irving: Tench, pp. 168, 312; Collins, vol. I, pp. 80, 181, 360; Gillen, Chapman, alphabetical listings.

  Dennis Considen: ADB, vol. I, alphabetical listing; Gillen, Chapman, alphabetical listing; Ritchie, pp. 54, 55.

  Wentworth's Norfolk Island career: Ritchie, pp. 56, 60, 61–63; Collins, vol. I, p. 106; Ralph Clark, pp. 180, 184, 186, 191.

  Ralph Clark and flogging: pp. 191, 197.

  Near mutiny: Ralph Clark, p. 192.

  Renewed floggings: pp. 199, 202.

  Wentworth's intervention: Clark, p. 197.

  Ruse's farming success: Tench, pp. 197, 198, 256; Collins, vol. I, pp. 130, 135, 136.

  Arrival of Elizabeth Perry: Tench, pp. 197, 198; Collins, vol. I, p. 88; Flynn, alphabetical listing.

  Chapter Twenty-one

  Nicol and Lady Juliana prepare to leave: Nicol, p. 130.

  Smilax and fertility: as for previous note.

  The coming of the whale: Tench, p. 174; Collins, vol. I, pp. 108–10.

  The whale feast: Tench, pp. 176–78; Collins, as for previous note.

  Bennelong at Manly: Tench, pp. 176–80; Collins, as for previous note.

  His gift for the governor: as for previous note.

  The governor visits Bennelong: Tench, p. 178; Collins, vol. I, pp. 109–11.

  Lieutenant Waterhouse: Tench, pp. 178–80; Collins, vol. I, p. 111; ADB, vol. II, alphabetical listing.

  Phillip at Manly: Phillip in Hunter, pp. 306–11; Collins, vol. I, pp. 109–11; Tench, pp. 178–80.

  Phillip's wounding: as for previous note.

  Withdrawal to Sydney: Tench, p. 180; Collins, vol. I, pp. 111–12.

  Collins on Phillip's trusting nature: Collins, vol. I, p. 111.

  Bennelong not blamed: Tench, p. 184; Collins, vol. I, p. 112; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 309, 311.

  Phillip's men looking for Bennelong: as for previous note.

  Bennelong, Barangaroo, and others: Tench, pp. 184–86; Collins, vol. I, pp. 311–12.

  The return of stolen property: Tench, pp. 185, 186.

  Bennelong's reluctance to go to Sydney: Tench, p. 187; Phillip in Hunter, p. 311.

  Bennelong visits Sydney while hostages held: Tench, pp. 188, 189; Phillip in Hunter, as for previous note; Collins, vol. I, p. 313.