Surviving New South Wales convict indexes preserve the identities, offenses, and sentences of individual prisoners. No numerical answer is supplied for how many were executed, but the indexes allow case-level research. The fleet carried roughly 1,400 people and cost an estimated £84,000 in contemporary money. Those figures establish the expedition as a substantial state investment with extensive administrative preparation.
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Convict records and the cost of the expedition
Convict indexes and the fleet's personnel and cost figures establish the administrative scale behind transportation.