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Thomas Jackson (?–?)

Thomas Jackson, a marine in the 30th (Plymouth) Company arrived at Sydney with his wife Agnes, aboard the Lady Penrhyn in January 1788 as part of the First Fleet. He served in Captain James Meredith's Company at Port Jackson at the public forge (he was a file cutter).

Jackson returned to England with his wife on the Gorgon in December 1791.

* information from Mollie Gillen, The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet (1989), p 189

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'Jackson, Thomas (?–?)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/jackson-thomas-31341/text38738, accessed 28 March 2024.

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