George Gadd, 30, butcher, was tried and convicted at Bristol City Quarter Sessions on 10 January 1820. He was caught in St Nicholas parish carrying a ‘quarter of beef’ on his back. When questioned, he claimed he had been asked to carry it but did not know whom he had been asked to follow.

Gadd was sentenced to seven years’ transportation and sailed for New South Wales on the Shipley on 22 May 1820. He was transferred to the Guildford in Sydney Cove on 4 October 1820 and sent to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). Gadd was granted a certificate of freedom on 15 January 1827.