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1. After his conviction in Edinborough, Midlothian Scotland, on 14 March 1794, he was transferred from Britain to New South Wales on the Ship Sovereign. Home Office: [http://search.ancestry.com//cgi-bin/sse.dll?gss=angs-g&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Joseph&gsfn_x=0&gsln=Gerrald&gsln_x=0&MSAV=1&msbdy=1763&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=5vf&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=78601&recoff=4+5&db=AusConvictOthers&indiv=1&ml_rpos=7 ''Convict Transportation Registers; Class: HO 11; Piece: 1'']. (The National Archives Microfilm Publication HO11); The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England. Ancestry.com. Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Other Fleets & Ships, 1791-1868 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Accessed 4 December 2015. {{Subscription}} auntieruth (talk) 23:58, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
2. his son, Joseph, admitted at age 17 at Cambridge University Trinity College on 3 December 1800. He is listed as "from Philadelphia PA. Ancestry.com. Cambridge University Alumni, 1261–1900 [database on-line], Joseph Gerrald (son of political reformer). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. From original date compiled by Venn, J. A., comp. Alumni Cantabrigienses. London, England: Cambridge University Press, 1922–1954. Accessed 4 December 2015.
3. Joseph (Sr) listed in 1785 in the muster roll of the City of Philadelphia, PA, 3rd company 6th battalion, Philadelphia Militia.

Pennsylvania Archives. Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, et al. (eds), Pennsylvania Archives. J. Severns & Company, 1907, p. 1175.

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Looks good. I fixed some of the citations. when the <nowiki> etc appears, you leave that out. It was there so you could see the text I was typing. Go ahead an integrate it into the main article now. ~~~~

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