RESEARCHED BY PETER KILLACKEY HUMPHREY LYNCH FIRST FLEET TRANSPORTEE b. 1763 - d. 1817 Humphrey was tried at Salisbury in Wiltshire on the 5th of March 1785 for assault and highway robbery. Humphrey was sentenced to death which was commuted to transportation for 7 years. He left England with the first fleet on board the Alexander. Humphrey's occupation was listed as a tailor. He commited suicide by drowning in 1817.