On 2/6/2013 7:52 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>> On 2/5/2013 9:59 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>> beats living on convict island.
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>>>> Number of people in jail:
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>>>> #1 United States: 715 per 100,000
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>>>> #73 Australia: 116 per 100,000
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>>>> http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cr...ers-per-capita
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>>> I guess he wasn't aware that British used to send their convicts and
>>> debtors to the American colonies. They had to stop that after the
>>> revolution so they started sending them to Australia.
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>> That's how my father's family got to the US. They were Scots captured
>> at the battle of Bothwell Bridge, 1679 by the Brits. Father and son
>> were transported to the "colonies". They had been sold to a Virginia
>> planter as indentured servants. During the crossing the captain of
>> the ship died. The man who assumed command was a friend of the
>> McQuown's. He changed the course of the ship. They landed at Amboy,
>> NJ (now Perth Amboy, so named by the Scots). From there they made
>> their way to Pennsylvania. They received land grants from William
>> Penn and became farmers. If the Captain hadn't died things would have
>> turned out very differently for the McQuown's...
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> I think they were probably captured by the English.
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My bad! It was (yet another) religious conflict.

Jill