When William Leabetter was born in 1779, in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Leabetter, was 28 and his mother, Ann Burgoine Richardson, was 25. He registered for military service in 1798. He died on 6 August 1798, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 19.
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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.
Altered form of English Ledbetter .
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