Thomas Pritchard (c.1764- ) was found guilty (as Thomas Prichard) on 10 December 1783 at the Old Bailey, London, of stealing fifty pounds lead weight from a building. Sentenced to 7 years transportation to America, he was among the prisoners who mutinied on the convict transport Mercury in April 1784. Recaptured, he was sent to the Dunkirk hulk in June 1784. He was discharged to the Friendship in March 1787 and arrived in Sydney in January 1788 as part of the First Fleet.
Pritchard has not been traced in records in the colony after 1789.
* information from Mollie Gillen, The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet (1989), p 294
'Pritchard, Thomas (c. 1764–?)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/pritchard-thomas-30843/text38194, accessed 16 April 2024.
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