In a message dated 5/1/2001 4:09:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
sagemarie98(a)earthlink.net writes:
<< Check this site out, list.
Found the name of the ship and list of those men from Northern NY listed...
they are all listed as coming from either upper or lower Canada...
http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/community/dps/convicts/canadian.html
Bonnie Shafer >>
Thank you, Bonnie! I found this too, in another place, and it certainly
helps to flesh out what we know of this conflict and its aftermath. The men
listed on the site above were those referred to in the quote below:
<<< HMS BUFFALO 1813-1840
<<< The list of names contained in the file BUFFALO.LST has been extracted
from the book "HMS BUFFALO" by Robert Sexton published 1984.
<<< Lower Canadian Convicts 1839-40 came from Quebec, Upper Canadian Convicts
came from Ontario.. They had been found guilty of High Treason at Montreal
sentenced to death and had their sentences
commuted to Life Transportation. All but 4 of the 141 had taken part in
1838-39 Canadian rebellions. The ship sailed from Quebec 28th September 1839,
arrived Rio de Janeiro on 30th November, and
sailed from there on 5th December, and arrived off Hobart Tasmania on 11th
February 1840. The convicts disembarked on 15th. The ages of the convicts as
well as their places of birth have been
transcribed in column 4. except that in the case of the Lower Canadian
convicts column 4 consists of their ages and occupation. [end quote]
>>
And there I found Francois Guertin, age 44, born about 1795, a carpenter, one
of Les Patriotes who were convicted and shipped to the British penal colony
in Australia aboard the ship "Buffalo" - leaving Quebec on 28 Sep 1839 and
disembarking in Tasmania (Van Dieman's Land) on 11 Feb 1840. He was a gg
grand-uncle of mine, she said proudly!
I found the above quote on the site
<
http://www.convictcentral.com/index.html>
where all the transported Patriots-War participants are listed.
It appears that 48 of the convicts (say, rather, political prisoners) were
Quebecoise who had been involved in the patriots' war in the Richelieu River
area engagements of 1837 - and the others from the Battle of the Windmill,
etc., in Ontario.
Cheers to all,
Ginny Crawford
Carmel Valley CA USA
VCrawf(a)aol.com