John Baughan | |
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Born | |
Baptised | 5 May 1754 |
Died | 25 September 1797 |
Other names | Boughan Baughan, Boffin, Baffen, Baughn, Bingham, Buffin and Bunham |
Occupation(s) | Convict carpenter and millwright |
Spouses | Catherine Morgan
(m. 1774; transported 1787)Mary Cleaver
(m. 1788; death 1797) |
Children |
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Parent(s) | John Baughan/Boffin and Ann Woodley |
John Baughan (1754 – 25 September 1797) was a carpenter who was convicted at Oxford, England, in 1783 as Baffen (alias Bingham and Baughan), and sentenced to be transported for 7 years for stealing 5 blankets. He was in the Mercury bound for America in 1784 when she was seized by the convicts off Torbay; he was recaptured and held at Plymouth until transferred to the First Fleet transport Friendship.[1]
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