A GENERAL RETURN of MALE CONVICTS, with their respective employments, on the 23d of July, 1790.
AT SYDNEY.
40 Making bricks and tiles.
50 Bringing in bricks, &c. for the new store-house.
19 Bricklayers and labourers employed in building a store-house and huts at Rose-Hill.
8 Carpenters employed at the new store, and in building huts at Rose-Hill.
9 Men who can work with the axe, and who assist the carpenters.
2 Sawyers.
9 Smiths.
10 Watchmen.
40 Receiving stores and provisions from the ships.
12 Employed on the roads--mostly convalescents.
18 Bringing in timber.
4 Stone-masons.
10 Employed in the boats.
3 Wheelwrights.
6 Employed in the stores.
38 Employed by the officers of the civil and military departments at their farms. These men will be employed for the public when the relief takes place.
2 Assistants to the provost marshal.
3 Gardeners and labourers employed by the governor.
3 Coopers.
6 Shoe-makers.
4 Taylors.
5 Bakers.
6 Attending the sick at the hospital.
3 Barbers.
3 Gardeners, and others, employed at the hospital.
3 Employed by the governor bringing in of wood, &c.
316
413 Under medical treatment
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AT ROSE-HILL.
2 Employed at the store.
3 Servants to the three superintendants.
1 Employed in taking care of the stock.
2 Employed at the hospital.
5 Men who work with the axe in building huts.
1 Baker.
1 Cook.
4 Boys variously employed.
1 Assistant to the provost marshal.
3 Thatchers.
1 Servant to the store-keepers.
1 Ditto to the assistant surgeon.
4 Overseers.
25 Sick.
113 Clearing and cultivating the ground.
12 Sawyers.
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Chapter XVIII
TRANSACTIONS AT PORT JACKSON
August 1790 to October 1790
An excursion into the country.--An interview with the natives.--Governor Phillip wounded with a spear.--A second interview with the natives.--Occurrences on that occasion.--Five convicts effect their escape in a boat.--The settlement visited by the natives.--Their customs.--Arrival of the Supply from Batavia.