Lot 1910

Description

Rum Order, printed form (Boyle Thomas) to remove (two) Gallons of (Rum) [H]ouse of (Mr. McGuire) at (Barracks) of (Boyle Thomas) at (Clarence Plains) Hours of 8 in the Morning and 6 in the Afternoon of this (A.W.H. Humphrey JP) size 101mm x 63mm. Note cut right of centre causing some print to be missing on the left including possibly the date, frail with minute "pin holes" otherwise very good and the only example known.

Ex Dr Arthur Andrews, Dr. G.H. Abbott and Edward Wills Collections and from D. Raymond circa 1947. A.W.H. Humphrey was the Police Magistrate given exclusive authority to grant a permit to remove more than one gallon of wines or spirits (rum) from any place in Hobart Town and district by command of His Honor the Lieutenant Governor, Government & General Orders, Government House, Hobart Town Saturday, 18th October 1817. Colour Sergeant Thomas McGuire of the 1/48th Regiment was the holder of a spirit retailing license. Boyle Thomas offered one gallon of rum as a reward for the return of a boat (HT Gazette No 35, June 25 1817). Thomas Boyle was sentenced to be transported to New South Wales on 31 July 1807 per the ship Guilford. He was one of eighty convicts on board the Ruby of Calcutta arriving Hobart Town 19 Feb 1812. McGuire was licensed to sell spirits at the Barracks only to the Military. Percy Marks recorded the signature as that of A.W.N. Thompson JP (JRAHS, Vol XXVI, 1940, P.511). (The above information kindly supplied by W.J.D. (Bill) Mira).