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The First Fleet
ARTICLES SENT BY FIRST FLEET TO PORT JACKSON IN 1788
List taken from the account-books of the Admiralty
Source: Historical Records of New South Wales, Volume 2.
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700 steel spades 700 iron shovels 700 garden-hoes 700 West India hoes 700 grubbing-hoes 700 felling-axes 700 hatchets 700 helves for
felling-axes 747,000 nails 100 pairs of hinges
and hooks 10 sets cooper’s
tools 40 corn-mills 40 wheel-barrows 12 ploughs 30 grindstones 330 iron pots 6 carts 4 timber-carriages 14 chains to
timber-carriages 14 fishing nets 5,448 squares of
crown glass 200 canvas beds 63 chald’n coals 80 carpenter’s axes 20 shipwright’s
adzes 175 claw-hammers 175 steel had-saws 140 augers 700 gimlets Stationery for
Commissary Drugs, etc |
504 saw files 300 chisels 6 butcher’s knives 100 scissors 30 box-rules 30 pincers 100 plains measures 50 pickaxes 50 helves for
pickaxes 700 wooden bowls 700 wooden platters 5 sets blacksmith’s
tools 10 blacksmith’s
bellows 10 forges 20 pit-saws 700 clasp-knives 500 tin plates 60 padlocks 50 hay-forks 42 splitting-wedges 8,000 fish-hooks 48 dozen lines 9 dozen pounds
sewing-twine 10,000 bricks 12 brick-moulds 36 mason’s chisels Harness for six
horses 12 ox-bows 3 sets ox-furniture 6 harpoons Clothes |
3 dozen flat iron
candlesticks 3 snuffers 24 spinning whorls 48 spinning brasses Set of apparatus for
candle-making 7 dozen razors Bible,
prayer-book, Communion service, and surplice for Chaplain 6
bullet-moulds 9
hackles for flax 9
hackle-pins 3
flax-dresser brushes 127
dozen combs 1
machine for dressing flax, with ironwork and brushes 18
coils whale-line 252
dozen pounds cotton candles 168
dozen pounds mould candles 44 tons
of tallow 2
millstones, spindles, etc. 800
sets bedding 1 loom
for weaving canvas 2,780
woollen jackets 5,400
drawers 26
marquees for married officers 200
wood canteens 40
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