Convict Love Token - 1832 - W Williams
William Williams, 23, was tried at Middlesex Court on 5 April 1832 for stealing a coat worth seven shillings, the property of William Cole. Cole stated in court I live in Deptford on 15th March about 11 o'clock at night I left my coat safe on the box of my fly, at Covent Garden Theatre. The prisoner's defence was: I was intoxicated. Williams was sentenced to seven years' transportation. He sailed for New South Wales on the Hercules on 14 June 1832.
Transcription
Back
Token engraved with cursive text:
We part in
Hopes, to meet
Again.
Front
Token engraved with cursive text:
W. Williams
Exil,d, April,
5, 1832.
Diameter
29.0 mm
Copyright: National Museum of Australia
