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Conditional pardon granted to Thomas Gorman alias Fitzgerald

Conditional pardon granted to Thomas Gorman alias Fitzgerald, 5 June 1815
Manuscript and printed
Purchased from Viscountess Strathallan, 1914
ML MSS 4199X

Sentenced to transportation for life, Thomas Gorman earned his conditional pardon for ‘laborious and Persevering Exertions in Constructing the New Road over the Western Mountains to Bathurst Plains.’ He received an absolute pardon in 1817. Under Macquarie, pardons became more numerous, a fact that did not go unnoticed by his detractors.