Moreton Bay Penal Settlement
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Cartographic Name
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Moreton Bay Penal Settlement
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Identifier
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SITE-MBPS
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category
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Penal Settlement
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temporalCoverage
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1824-1842
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sourceOrganization
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New South Wales Governor’s Orders (1820s-1830s) and British Colonial Office
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text
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"You would hear the ‘click, click’ of their irons as they kept step with the wheel, and those with the heavier irons seemed to have ‘a great job’ to keep up. Some poor wretches only just managed to pull through till they got off at the far end, then they sat down till their turn came to go on again." Colonial Settler Narrative. Petrie, Constance. Tom Petrie’s Reminiscences of Early Queensland. Watson, Ferguson & Co., 1904, p.244.
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"For three long years I’ve been beastly treated;
Heavy irons each day I wore,
My poor back from flogging has been lacerated,
And oftimes painted with crimson gore." Convict Poetry. MacNamara, Francis (Frank the Poet), attributed. “The Convict’s Lament on the Unfortunate Death of Patrick Logan” (“Moreton Bay”). 1839.