James+Bradley

__James Bradley__ James was born in 765 in London. James Bradley stole a white linen handkerchief with a purple border worth two shillings from Robert Thorton on the 8th of June 1785. He was sentenced at the Old Bailey to seven years transportation on June 29 1785. He was 21 years of age. He travelled to New South Wales on the Scarborough. He arrived on the 20th of January 1788. He received 25 lashes for a petty crime. He married Sarah Barnes on the twelth of August 1792 in Parramatta in New South Wales. Less than two years later, he received thirty acres at Eastern Farms. He died at Kissing Point in Sydney on the sixteenth of February 1838 and is buried in what became St Annes at Ryde. By Drew