RESEARCHED BY PETER KILLACKEY CONVICT - ROBERT JENKINS FIRST FLEET TRANSPORTEE b. 1732 - d. 1798 Robert was tried at Maidstone in the county of Kent on the 17th of March 1786, for stealing clothing worth 80 shillings. Robert was sentenced to transportation for 7 years. He left England with the first fleet on board the Alexander. Speared by Aborigines, Robert died in 1798.