When John Reader was christened on 17 March 1782, in Boughton-under-Blean, Kent, England, his father, Thomas Reader, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Izzard, was 25. He died in Tengah, Gorontalo, Gorontalo, Indonesia.
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The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
"Former slave Olaudah Equiano settled in London and published his autobiography titled ""The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano."" Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity. His autobiography is one of the oldest published works by an African-American writer."
English: variant of Reeder .
Americanized form of German Rieder .
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