John Adams was sentenced to seven years transportation for stealing, with John Agnew, 214 pounds of lead (they cut two pieces out from a roof gutter). Adams arrived in Sydney in 1788 aboard the Scarborough. A man of his name was buried at Sydney Cove on 5 July 1788.
* information from Mollie Gillen, The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet (1989), p 3
'Adams, John (1740–1788)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/adams-john-29764/text36850, accessed 15 September 2024.
4 July,
1788
(aged ~ 48)
Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
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