FEBRUARY

 

  Survey of Port Stephens by Charles Grimes, assistant Surveyor General  
 

 

MARCH

 

Store established at Hawkesbury river under the superintendence of Baker who had arrived on the Suprize  
 

 

 

MARCH 1

 

 

Charles Grimes returns from his survey of Port Stephens giving an account of the natives of the district

Read David Collins' account

 

 
 
 

 

AUGUST 26

 

 

Arrival of the Providence, Captain Broughton, with an account of runaway convicts found at Port Stephens.

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SEPTEMBER 5

 

Death of assistant surgeon emancipist John Irving  
 
 

SEPTEMBER 7

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Memoirs of Hydrography Including Brief Biographies of the Principal Officers who Have Served in H.M. Naval Surveying Service Between the Years 1750 and 1885 By Llewellyn Styles Dawson

Arrival of Governor Hunter in Sydney on board the Reliance . Also on board surgeon George Bass and midshipman Mathew Flinders

 

 

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER 11

 

Administration of Government taken over by Governor Hunter  
 
 

SEPTEMBER

 

Flood of the Hawkesbury River. 25ft above usual level. One settler drowned  
 
 

OCTOBER

 

Convict population - 1362 male & 546 female convicts  
  Exploration of Botany Bay and George's River in the Tom Thumb by George Bass and Mathew Flinders 

Historical Sketch of New South Wales - Bass & Flinders (Wattle Do)

 
 
 

NOVEMBER 5

 

Arrival of supply ship Sovereign. Master George Storey  
 
 

DECEMBER

 

Exploration and finding of wild cattle at Cowpastures district  

 

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