A Jamaican slave, Simpson arrived in Hobart on board the Jupiter in 1833. He had been convicted the previous year for 'Seditious Language, Conspiracy & Rebellion' for his part in Jamaica's Baptist War and sentenced to death, but later had his conviction commuted to life transportation. Simpson received his ticket-of-leave in 1838, a conditional pardon in 1840 and a free pardon in 1841.
(Source: '"Stated This Offence": High-Density Convict Micro-Narratives' by Ian Duffield in Chain Letters : Narrating Convict Lives, 2001)
