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Jacob Nagle his Book A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Nine May 19th. Canton. Stark County Ohio1755-1802, compiled 1829

Jacob Nagle his Book A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Nine May 19th. Canton. Stark County Ohio1755-1802, compiled 1829

Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW; Purchased from Maggs Bros, London, 1995; MLMSS 5954 (Safe 1/156), p. 84

Manuscript

Jacob Nagle joined the Royal Navy and was transferred to HMS Sirius as Able Seaman in 1787, where he sailed from England with the First Fleet to Australia.
Jacob Nagle was part of Governor Phillip’s boating party exploring the coast and harbor of Botany Bay in 1788, looking for a better site to found the colony.
HMS Sirius was the flagship of the First Fleet, sailing from Portsmouth, England in 1787 to establish the first European colony in New South Wales.
Aboard HMS Sirius, Jacob Nagle was sent to Norfolk Island in 1790 where the ship was lost on a reef, stranding the crew until they were taken back to Sydney Cove in 1791.
Jacob Nagle’s journal includes events aboard HMS Sirius from his perspective as a common sailor.
Jacob Nagle was born in the American colony of Pennsylvania in 1761 and died in Ohio in 1841.