Letters from the colony

Newton Fowell, 1786 – 1790

Letters Home

Newton Fowell was a nineteen-year-old midshipman when he joined the Sirius, the flagship of the First Fleet. He wrote thirteen letters home, mainly to his father, during this voyage and while at Sydney and Batavia (Jakarta) where he died in August 1790, just after his twenty-second birthday.
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