A Commonwealth of Thieves

by Thomas Keneally

  Further contact with Aboriginals: Tench, pp. 187, 188; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 319–23; Collins, vol. I, pp. 313, 317.

  Bennelong's tin shield, hatchets, and house: Tench, p. 200; Collins, vol. I, pp. 113, 117; Phillip in Hunter, p. 320.

  Chapter Twenty-two

  Aboriginal women trading sex for goods: Collins, vol. I, p. 464.

  Phillip's assessment of a native woman: Phillip in Hunter, p. 327.

  Bennelong's domestic brutality: Collins, vol. I, pp. 463, 464; Tench, p. 188; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 319–21.

  Bennelong's tenderness to Barangaroo: Phillip in Hunter, p. 316; Tench, p. 190; Collins, vol. I, pp. 492, 493.

  Bennelong and Karubarabulu fighting: Tench, pp. 200–203; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 319–21.

  Karubarabulu in hospital: Tench, p. 203; Phillip in Hunter, as for previous note.

  Bennelong's repentance: Tench, as for previous note; Phillip in Hunter, p. 321.

  Bennelong's fear of Surgeon White: Tench, p. 205.

  Karubarabulu hides from Barangaroo at Government House: Tench, p. 203; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 321, 322.

  John McEntire: Tench, pp. 49, 66, 105, 116; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 326, 327.

  Pemulwuy: Collins, vol. I, p. 118; Tench (under Pimelwi), p. 206; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 327, 328.

  Bennelong entertains Pemulwuy: Smith, p. 116.

  Karubarabulu: Collins, vol. I, pp. 463, 464; Tench, p. 291; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 321–23.

  Carradhys: A. P. Elkin, Aboriginal Men of High Degree, pp. 1–66; Collins, vol. I, pp. 453, 493, 494.

  The wounding of McEntire: Tench, pp. 207, 209; Collins, pp. 107, 108; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 326–28.

  Phillip's reaction: Tench, pp. 207–9; Phillip in Hunter, p. 328.

  Bennelong as distinguished visitor: Phillip in Hunter, pp. 328, 332.

  Tench's reaction: Tench, p. 209.

  Preparation for the expedition: Tench, p. 209.

  Dawes's resistance: HRA, Series 1, vol. I, p. 289; Hunter, p. 435n.

  Patyegarang: Smith, pp. 98, 99.

  Dawes's further resistance: HRA, Series I, vol. I, p. 292.

  The first punitive expedition: Tench, pp. 209–11; Collins, vol. I, pp. 118, 119; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 328, 329.

  McEntire at hospital: Phillip in Hunter, p. 327.

  Colby's intervention: Tench (under Colbee), pp. 210, 211.

  The second expedition: Tench, pp. 212–15; Collins, vol. I, pp. 118, 119.

  Bennelong back in Sydney: Phillip in Hunter, p. 332.

  Initiation details: Collins, vol. I, pp. 466–89.

  Corroboree: Tench pp. 277, 289, 290; Collins, vol. I, p. 466; Hunter, p. 143; King in Hunter, p. 270; Phillip in Hunter, p. 317.

  Bennelong and the two women together at Tubowgulle: Phillip in Hunter, p. 332.

  Potato raid: Tench, p. 215; Collins, vol. I, pp. 121, 122; Phillip in Hunter, p. 332.

  Aboriginal found dead: Tench, pp. 215, 216; Collins, vol. I, pp. 121, 122; Phillip in Hunter, p. 333.

  Bennelong's angry response: Tench, p. 216; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 333, 334.

  Port Jackson painter: Collins, p. 368.

  Phillip's new rules about contact: Phillip in Hunter, p. 328.

  Phillip refuses Bennelong entry to Government House: Phillip in Hunter, p. 327.

  Collins on native dispossession: Collins, vol. I, p. 122.

  Chapter Twenty-three

  The Waaksamheyd: Hunter, p. 131; King in Hunter, p. 294; Collins, vol. I, pp. 113, 114.

  Tench on Batavia: Tench, p. 217.

  Waaksamheyd's cargo: Phillip in Hunter, pp. 329, 335; Collins, vol. I, pp. 119, 120.

  Detmer Smith plays games: Tench, p. 218; Collins, vol. I, p. 123; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 335–36.

  Waaksamheyd hired to return crew of Sirius: Collins, vol. I, pp. 124, 127, 128; Tench, p. 218; Phillip in Hunter, p. 338.

  Phillip's request to return to England: 25 March 1791, Phillip to Grenville, HRA, Series I, vol. I, p. 377.

  Phillip's wife and affairs: see Frost, Phillip.

  His declaration of ill health: HRA, as above.

  Collins to his father: 23 March 1791, Correspondence, 1775–1810, MSS 700.

  Nature of Phillip's illness: G. B. Barton, History of New South Wales from the Records, pp. 305, 306, 368.

  The request by four officers: Cobley, 1791–1792, pp. 45, 46.

  Phillip to Sir Joseph Banks: Cobley, 1791–1792, pp. 47, 28.

  Surgeon White to Grenville: Cobley, 1791–1792, p. 50.

  The journey of the Waaksamheyd: Tench, p. 218; Hunter, pp. 146–92.

  Expedition to cross Hawkesbury River: Tench, pp. 224–34; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 340–48.

  Encounters with local natives: as for previous note.

  Phillip on difference between Hawkesbury language and that of coastal people: Phillip in Hunter, p. 347.

  Colby and Ballooderry want to go back: Phillip in Hunter, pp. 347, 348; Tench, p. 234.

  William Bryant's flogging: Collins, pp. 44, 45.

  Surgeon White to the dealer in hams: White to Mr. Skill, 17 April 1790, Barton, vol. I, pp. 506–8.

  John Terwood's attempted escape: Tench, pp. 181, 182; Collins, vol. I, pp. 113, 356, 357.

  The Bryants' preparations: C. H. Currey, The Transportation, Escape and Pardoning of Mary Bryant, pp. 12–14; Collins, vol. I, pp. 126, 127.

  Motivations: Tench, p.162.

  Fellow escapees: Currey, p. 14; Collins, vol. I, pp. 129, 130.

  Escape: Currey, pp. 19–25; Memorandums, reproduced in Geoffrey Chapman Ingleton, True Patriots All, pp. 13–15.

  Further ration reduction: Collins, vol. I, pp. 130, 131.

  Bryant's impact on colonial society: Collins, p. 131.

  David Collins's opinion: as for previous note.

  Tench's admiration: Tench, p. 219.

  Chapter Twenty-four

  Bligh's interest: George Mackaness, The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh RN, FRS, pp. 298, 299.

  The Memorandums: Ingleton, pp. 13–15.

  Journey to Koepang: Currey, pp. 26, 27; Memorandums.

  And time there: Currey, pp. 27–31; Memorandums.

  Third Fleet and contract: Byrne, Blackheath Connection, especially chap. 40.

  Pursuit of Captain Trail: Flynn, pp. 54–64; Ritchie, pp. 43–44.

  Nelson on Trail: Flynn, p. 74.

  The Queen: Bateson, p. 132; Flynn, pp. 60, 64, 73.

  Voyage of Third Fleet proper: Bateson, pp. 131–39; Collins, vol. I, pp. 141, 143, 145, 149, 150.

  The Gorgon: Bateson, p. 131.

  The Mary Ann: as for previous note; Byrne, Blackheath Connection.

  Ships' agents and short weighting: Bateson, pp. 135, 136.

  The Defenders: Atkinson, pp. 178, 250.

  Arrival of Mary Ann: Collins, vol. I, pp. 140, 141; Phillip in Hunter, p. 354; Tench, p. 240.

  No temptation offered to quit colony: Phillip in Hunter, p. 355.

  National Children: John Molony, The Native Born: The First White Australians, pp. 23–25.

  The Matilda: Bateson, pp. 134, 135; Collins, vol. I, p. 143; Phillip in Hunter, p. 356.

  Bennelong in hospital: Phillip in Hunter, p. 360.

  Atlantic and Salamander: Phillip in Hunter, pp. 357, 358; Collins, vol. I, pp. 145, 152; Tench, p. 242.

  Admiral Barrington: Phillip in Hunter, p. 368; Collins, vol. I, pp. 151, 152.

  Mrs. Parker: Mary Parker, Voyage Round the World in the Gorgon, pp. 73–92.

  The Reverend Bain: Phillip in Hunter, p. 366; Collins, vol. I, pp. 148, 160, 161, 303, 334; Bonwick, pp. 114, 115.

  The Reverend Johnson: as for Bonwick, previous note.

  Activities of ships after delivery of convicts: Bateson, p. 139; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 368–71, 373, 375; Tench, pp. 298–300; Collins, vol. I, pp. 151, 152, 155, 156, 158, 159.

  Chapter Twenty-five

  The Gorgon's bounty: Phillip in Hunter, p.
366; Tench, pp. 245, 248.

  King and his wife: ADB, vol. II, alphabetical listing.

  The Great Seal: Collins, vol. I, p. 149.

  King returns to Norfolk Island: Ritchie, pp. 49, 50, 60–71; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 368, 382–84; Collins, vol. I, pp. 148, 152, 153, 159; Clark, pp. 221–238.

  Wentworth on Norfolk Island: Ritchie, pp. 61–72.

  Attitude towards his son: Ritchie, p. 68.

  George Barrington: ADB, vol. I, alphabetical listing; George Barrington, George Barrington's Voyage to Botany Bay, Retelling a Convict's Travel Narrative of the 1790s (not proven authentic, but credible and accurate on much of Barrington's personal history); Tench, pp. 242, 257, 258; Collins, vol. I, p. 205.

  Grenville replies to Phillip: 19 February 1791, Cobley, 1791–1792, pp. 123–24.

  Collins's bind: Collins to his father, 17 October 1791, Collins Papers, vol. I, p. 62, Dixon Library, State Library of New South Wales.

  Attitude towards Major Ross: as for previous note.

  Loyalty to Phillip: as for Collins Papers, above.

  Extra provisions on Third Fleet ships: Collins, vol. I, p. 150.

  The Bryants imprisoned on Koepang: Memorandums; Currey, p. 31.

  Pandora: Mackaness, Bligh, pp. 190–208; Currey, pp. 29–31.

  Shipped to Batavia: Memorandums; Currey, pp. 31, 32.

  Chapter Twenty-six

  The Irish: Collins, vol. I, p. 141; Hunter in Phillip, p. 366.

  Millennial dreams: Atkinson, pp. 249–51; Thomas Keneally, The Great Shame, pp. 12, 13.

  Going to China: Collins, vol. I, pp. 154, 155; Tench, pp. 243, 244; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 333, 372; Atkinson, pp. 248–50.

  Phillip addresses the Parramatta convicts: Collins, vol. I, p. 160; Phillip in Hunter, p. 373.

  Tench visits “the Chinese Travellers”: Tench, p. 246.

  Demonstration outside Government House, Parramatta: Atkinson, p. 248; Collins, vol. I, p. 160.

  Devereaux and Kelly: ADB, vol. II, under Kelly; Portia Robinson, The Hatch and Brood, pp. 237, 250, 253; Molony, 73–74.

  Transports go whaling: Bateson, p. 139; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 368–71, 373, 375; Tench, pp. 298–300; Collins, vol. I, pp. 151, 152, 155, 156, 158, 159.

  William Richards's dream: Byrne, Blackheath Connection, chap. 40.

  Tench's opinion on commercial desirability of New South Wales: Tench, p. 74.

  Offers to marines to remain: Collins, p. 105; Easty, pp. 134, 135.

  Tench's opinion on marines' motives for staying: Tench, p. 245.

  Tench's reconnaissance: Tench, pp. 246–59.

  Ramsay and Leary: Tench, p. 253.

  Bishop: Tench, p. 253.

  Everingham: Tench, pp. 253, 254.

  Rymes: Tench, p. 254.

  Schaeffer: Tench, pp. 254, 255.

  Magee: Tench, p. 256; Collins, vol. I, pp. 314–16.

  McCabe drowned: Collins, vol. I, p. 243.

  Tench visits Barrington: Tench, pp. 257, 258.

  Populations of Sydney, Parramatta, and Norfolk Island: Tench, p. 259.

  Ross boards the Gorgon: Collins, vol. I, p. 159; Tench, p. 259.

  Duel with Captain Hill: Cobley, 1791–1792, p. 190.

  Ross's post-colonial life: ADB, vol. II, alphabetical listing.

  Departure of the Gorgon: Collins, vol. I, pp. 159, 199; Phillip in Hunter, p. 375.

  Bryant deaths in Batavia: Memorandums; Currey, p. 33.

  Edwards charters ships for Cape: Memorandums, Currey, p. 34; Mackaness, Bligh, p. 208.

  Chapter Twenty-seven

  Hatchet men (Mogogal): See Tench, Phillip, and Collins for recurrent requests for hatchets (for example, Tench, pp. 176, 177, 188); Collins, vol. I, p. 510.

  Barangaroo: Collins, vol. I, p. 464; Phillip in Hunter, p. 360.

  Yuringa: Collins, vol. I, p. 464.

  Barangaroo gives birth: Collins, vol. I, pp. 465, 466.

  Death of Barangaroo: Collins, vol. I, pp. 490, 499, 500.

  Bennelong summons Willemering: Collins, vol. I, p. 490.

  Barangaroo's cremation: Collins, vol. I, pp. 502, 503.

  Collins observes no acts of hostility: Collins, vol. I, p. 174.

  Confrontation between Sydney and Botany Bay natives, April 1791: Collins, vol. I, p. 490.

  Corroboree at head of the stream: Collins, vol. I, p. 491.

  Ritual wounding: Collins, vol. I, pp. 489, 490.

  Killing by Noorooing: Collins, vol. I, pp. 460, 488, 489.

  Death of Yuringa: Collins, vol. I, p. 405.

  Mrs. Macarthur: Elizabeth Macarthur, The Journal and Letters of Elizabeth Macarthur, 1787–1798, booklet.

  Colby's burial of wife and child: Collins, vol. I, p. 504.

  Pemulwuy's resistance: Tench (under Pimelwi), pp. 210, 211; Collins (under Pemulwy), vol. I, pp. 118, 371.

  Lieutenant Dawes's translation of damunalung: Smith, p. 156; Dawes Papers, ML.

  A skull for Sir Joseph Banks: Phillip to Banks, 26 March 1791, A81, ML.

  Blumenbach: John Gasgoigne, Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture, pp. 149–159.

  Chapter Twenty-eight

  Pitt: Bateson, pp. 139–41.

  Women convicts on Pitt: p. 141; Collins, vol. I, p. 170.

  Illness on board: Collins, pp. 168–70.

  Major Grose: ADB, vol. I, alphabetical listing; Collins, vol. I, pp. 96, 167.

  Arrival of Pitt: Bateson, p. 142; Collins, p. 167.

  Ships' officers set up store ashore: Collins, vol. I, p. 168.

  Grose reacts to Sydney Cove and Parramatta: HRA, vol. I, pt. II, pp. 2–4.

  Death and burial rate: Collins, vol. I, p. 170; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 371, 372; Cobley for March, April 1792 in 1791–1792.

  Fifty-two further land grants: Phillip in Hunter, pp. 355, 356.

  Phillip to Dundas: HRA, Series I, vol. I, p. 377.

  Henry Dundas: Brady, pp. 249, 250; C. M. H. Clark, vol. I, pp. 127, 128.

  Continued death: Collins, pp. 165, 167, 168.

  A teacher and a parson for Norfolk Island: Collins, vol. I, p. 162.

  Johnson's household: Bonwick, p. 88.

  But lack of a glebe: Bonwick, p. 89.

  Holding services in a boathouse or in the open: Bonwick, pp. 89, 90.

  Further burials: Cobley, for May, June 1792, 1791–1792; Collins, vol. I, p. 175.

  Survivors of the Bryant party transferred to Gorgon: Tench, pp. 219, 220; Currey, p. 34.

  Deaths of marines' children between Cape Town and England: Clark, pp. 233, 234; Scott, pp. 76–82.

  Death of Charlotte Bryant: Clark, p. 234.

  Arrival in Portsmouth: Currey, p. 36.

  Bryant party sent to Newgate: Frederick A. Pottle, Boswell and the Girl from Botany Bay, p. 24.

  James Boswell's involvement: Frank Brady, James Boswell, pp. 464–66; also Pottle; Currey, pp. 38–46.

  Other members of Bryant party released: Currey, p. 46.

  John Butcher (Samuel Broome) returns to New South Wales: Currey, pp. 46, 47.

  Mary Bryant goes home: Currey, p. 44.

  Parsons's poem: Brady, pp. 465, 466.

  Leaves from Botany Bay: Brady, pp. 572, 573.

  Chapter Twenty-nine

  Attempted escape on Pitt: Collins, vol. I, p. 170.

  Surgeon Atkins on continued hunger: Richard Atkins, Journal, 1792–1810, typescript copy ML, original NL.

  Maize, and grinding it: Collins, vol. I, p. 176.

  Shortage of rations, May 1792: Collins, vol. I, pp. 175, 176.

  New fishery for use of sick: Collins, vol. I, p. 175.

  Nature of scurvy, and thefts: Collins, vol. I, pp. 176–78.

  Atkins: ADB, vol. I, alphabetical listing; Atkins, Journal, photocopy, ML MSS 737–1.

  Diminishing returns: Collins, vol. I, p. 170.

  Burton: Phillip to Dundas, 5 April 1792, HRA, Series I, vol. I, pp. 936, 937.

  Burton's death: ADB, vol.
I, alphabetical listing; Collins, vol. I, p. 171.

  Arrival of Atlantic and its provisions: Collins, vol. I, pp. 184, 185.

  Inadequacy of rations: Collins, vol. I, pp. 186, 187; Atkins, Journal, ML.

  Mid-winter harvest: Atkins, as for previous note.

  Phillip to Nepean: 26 June 1792, Cobley, 1791–1792, p. 275.

  Discounting of bills: Cobley, 1791–1792, pp. 275, 276, 278.

  Arrival of Britannia, and news of Captain Trail: Collins, vol. I, pp. 187–88.

  Collins's optimism: Collins, vol. I, p. 188.

  Goods of unmerchantable condition: Collins, vol. I, pp. 184, 185.

  Nature of Indian supplies: Collins, vol. I, p. 191.

  Emancipated convicts and Ingram: Collins, vol. I, pp. 193, 194.

  Theft of urine-steeped corn: Atkins, Journal, ML.

  Phillip to Dundas: 2 October 1792, HRA, Series I, pt. I, pp. 374–81.

  Chapman on Phillip: HRNSW, vol. I, pt. I, p. 5.

  Royal Admiral: Bateson, pp. 140, 141; Collins, vol. I, p. 199.

  Convicts straight to Parramatta: Phillip in Hunter, p. 371.

  Mary Reibey: ADB, vol. II, alphabetical listing; Robinson, Hatch and Brood, pp. 69, 72.

  NSW Corps “takes up” Britannia: Collins, vol. I, p. 198.

  NSW Corps expect land grants: Phillip to Dundas, 4 October 1792, HRA, Series I, vol. I, pp. 383, 384.

  Shops and behaviour of settlers: Collins, vol. I, p. 202.

  Kitty: Collins, vol. I, pp. 206, 307; Bateson, pp. 143, 144.

  Phillip decides to travel on Atlantic: Collins, vol. I, p. 203.

  State of the colony: Phillip in Hunter, p. 372; Collins, vol. I, p. 209.

  Collins on settler morale: Collins, vol. I, p. 210.

  Bushfire and harvest: Collins, vol. I, p. 210.

  Livestock: as for previous note.

  Ceremonial and departure: Collins, vol. I, p. 211; Easty, p. 142.

  Bennelong and Yemmerrawanne: as for previous note.

  Easty's assessment of colony and journey: Easty, pp. 144, 145, 156, 157, 162, 163.

  Arrival in England: Easty, p. 174; Mackaness, Phillip; and Frost.

  Epilogue

  For all First Fleet convicts and personnel: see Gillen and Chapman, alphabetical listings.

  For Second Fleet convicts: see Flynn, alphabetical listings.

  There are ADB listings for the following: ADB, vol. I, George Barrington, Bennelong, James Bloodworth, David Collins; ADB, vol. II, Henry Kable, Philip Gidley King, Phillip Parker King, James Larra, Simeon Lord, Elizabeth Macarthur, John Macarthur, Mary and Thomas Reibey, James Ruse, Watkin Tench, James Underwood, Richard Johnson, Esther (Abrahams) Johnston, George Johnston, D'Arcy Wentworth, William Charles Wentworth.