<P> On 26 January 1842, the Colonial Government in Sydney awarded a life pension of 1 shilling a day to three surviving members of the First Fleet . The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser reported, on Saturday 29 January 1842: "The Government have ordered a pension of one shilling per diem to be paid to the survivors of those who came by the first vessel into the Colony . The number of these really' old hands' is now reduced to three, of whom, two are now in the Benevolent Asylum, and the other is a fine hale old fellow, who can do a day's work with more spirit than many of the young fellows lately arrived in the Colony ." The names of the three recipients are not given . </P> <P> William Hubbard: Hubbard was convicted in the Kingston Assizes in Surrey, England, on 24 March 1784 for theft . He was transported to Australia on the Scarborough in the First Fleet . He married Mary Goulding on 19 December 1790 in Rose Hill . In 1803 he received a land grant of 70 acres at Mulgrave Place . He died on 18 May 1843 at the Sydney Benevolent Asylum . His age was given as 76 when he was buried at Christ Church St. Lawrence, Sydney on 22 May 1843 . </P> <P> John McCarthy: McCarthy was a Marine who sailed on the Friendship . McCarthy was born in Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, circa Christmas 1745 . He first served in the colony of New South Wales, then at Norfolk Island where he took up a land grant of 60 acres (Lot 110). He married the first fleet convict Ann Beardsley on Norfolk Island in November 1791 after his discharge a month earlier . In 1808, on the close of Norfolk Island settlement, he resettled in Van Diemen's Land and later took a land grant (80 acres at Melville) in lieu of the one forfeited on Norfolk Island . The last few years of his life were spent at the home of his granddaughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Budd, at a place called Kinlochewe Inn near Donnybrook, Victoria . McCarthy died on 24 July 1846, six months past his 100 birthday . </P> <P> John Limeburner: The South Australian Register reported, in an article dated Wednesday 3 November 1847: "John Limeburner, the oldest colonist in Sydney, died in September last, at the advanced age of 104 years . He helped to pitch the first tent in Sydney, and remembered the first display of the British flag there, which was hoisted on a swamp oak - tree, then growing on a spot now occupied as the Water - Police Court . He was the last of those called the' first - fleeters' (arrivals by the first convict ships) and, notwithstanding his great age, retained his faculties to the last ." John Limeburner was a convict on the Charlotte . He was convicted on 9 July 1785 at New Sarum, Wiltshire of theft of a waistcoat, a shirt and stockings . He married Elizabeth Ireland in 1790 at Rosehill and together they establish a 50 - acre farm at Prospect . He died at Ashfield in September 1847 and is buried at St John's, Ashfield . </P>

What was the punishments on the first fleet