Philadelphia (Phyllis/Phillis) and her sister Frances Pounds were sentenced to life transportation for breaking into a house and stealing shoes, clothing and food. They arrived in Sydney in 1801 aboard the Earl Cornwallis.
Phyllis was assigned to James Underwood as a housemaid and was to live with him for six years and have three children. They did not marry however.
'Pounds, Philadelphia (Phyllis) (1781–1816)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/pounds-philadelphia-phyllis-25167/text33639, accessed 31 March 2023.
1781
Farningham, Kent, England
26 December,
1816
(aged ~ 35)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia