Peter Beauclerk Spicer, Superintendent of Convicts from 23 August 1826 – 8 May 1839, compiled a journal describing daily life at the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement during the year 1828. The daily entries detail that day’s distribution of labour, numbers of hospital patients, buildings in progress and visits to Dunwich to collect new arrivals or despatch convicts to Sydney.
The diary was transcribed by Marilyn England who kindly gave us permission to publish the transcription on our website.
The Book of Public Labour Performed by Crown Prisoners is held at the Queensland State Archives, (Series ID 5645)
