Nathaniel Lucas

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Nathaniel Lucas (1764–1818) was a First Fleet convict.

He was tried at the Old Bailey, London on 7 July 1784 for stealing clothing with a value of 40 shillings. He was sentenced to transportation for seven years and left England on the Scarborough in May 1787. His occupation was listed as carpenter. He died in 1818.

He became increasingly addicted to alcohol before his death by suicide. There are no surviving records of his marriage to Olivia Gascoigne on Norfolk Island. They had thirteen children, although twins were killed at two years old by a tree felled by him falling on their house.