A group of convicts assigned to a settler as workers.
continued good service entitled the prisoner to a transfer to a loan gang
Example sentencesExamples
- The loan gang consisted of the best workmen in the Colony, lent on loan to the settlers generally.
- The first wave of convict labour would be released from the roads to the loan gangs, to be hired out at cheap rates.
- Persons who obtain men from the loan gang are much more apt to abuse the trust confided in them.
- Repeated misconduct invariably withdraws the mechanic from the loan gang.
- In Van Diemen's Land all mechanics are placed either in the engineer department or in the loan-gang.