)Typical of Lux's convict transport voyages was the "Patapsco Merchant" which arrived in Baltimore, Maryland on March 17, 1730 with 106 prisoners from the Newgate Prison, London, Middlesex Co., England.Of the estimated 50,000 convicts transported to the British colonies, Lux carried at least 1,000 convicts from London to Maryland on eleven voyages within seventeen years.