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FEBRUARY

More about Charles Grimes at Australian Dictionary of Biography

 

 

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  
Charles Grimes returns from his survey of Port Stephens giving an account of the natives of the district  
Arrival of the Providence, Captain Broughton, with an account of runaway convicts found at Port Stephens.  
 

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

 

 

 

 

National Archives of Australia Image no. : A1200, L17350

 

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   
 

NOVEMBER 5

 

Arrival of supply ship Sovereign. Master George Storey  
 

DECEMBER

 

Exploration and finding of wild cattle at Cowpastures district  

Free Settler or Felon?

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