emancipist

As an emancipist Mary rightfully belonged two social ranks further down the ladder.

An emancipist was free to own land and was no longer subject to penal servitude.

The 30 acre grant in 1795 was seemingly a relatively early emancipist grant.

He is mentioned in many Australian History books, in particular regarding his status as an emancipist.

No, an emancipist by then.

Addington was built by the emancipist James Stewart, circa 1800.

I have paid me debts to society, I am an emancipist, an honest woman by the letter o' the law!'

Below even the labourer was the emancipist, though this group was perhaps the most curious contradiction in the pecking order.

Aspersions of this kind against members of the emancipist class at this period must, however, be accepted with caution.

The position of ex-convicts in the Australian penal colonies led to significant political conflict during the nineteenth century (cf. emancipist).

He scandalised settler opinion by appointing another emancipist, Andrew Thompson, as a magistrate.

In June 1803 he was appointed an acting superintendent of convicts on the island, and in 1805 he officially became an emancipist.

Chippendale sold the estate to Solomon Levey, emancipist and merchant, in 1821, for 380 pounds.

Squatting activity was often carried out by emancipist and native-born colonists as they sought to define and consolidate their place within society.

An emancipist was any of the convicts sentenced and transported under the convict system to Australia, who had been given conditional or absolute pardons.

Embittered by this rejection, he placed himself at the head of the "emancipist" party, which sought equal rights and status for ex-convicts and their descendants.

By 1836, John Glade, an emancipist, was issued with the deeds to Doody's grant, which he had purchased in 1817.

In the emancipist society of New South Wales, she gained respect for her charitable works and her interest in the church and education.

In retirement he co-authored a play with his daughter about the life of William Redfern, called The Emancipist.

Mary was also the stepdaughter of Simeon Lord, an emancipist, and a pioneer merchant and magistrate in early Sydney.

Garling was progressive in that he apparently allowed emancipist solicitors to practise in the courts over which he presided.

An emancipist could be released from his or her sentence for good behaviour, diligent work, or the expiration of his or her sentence.

Horatio was born in 1811, six months after his father's death, and Sarah remarried to George Howe, emancipist owner of the Sydney Gazette.

Elements of Bigge's reports criticised Governor Macquarie's administration including his emancipist policy, expenditure on public works and management of convicts.

The first Jewish services in the colony were conducted from 1820 in private homes by emancipist Joseph Marcus, one of the few convicts with Jewish knowledge.