JANUARY

 

 

  Circumnavigation of Van Diemen's Land completed by Bass and Flinders

Read more about Gov. Hunter's plans for the colony and Bass & Flinders' voyage

 
 
 

MARCH 3

 

Floods at the Hawkesbury river begin. Crops and stock destroyed. Govt. store house swept away  
 

 

MAY 3

 

Arrival of ship Buffalo. Surgeon Mr. Mason. Passenger John William Lewin  
 
 

JUNE

 

Arrival of the Albion, Captain Bunker, from England with 900 tons of salt pork.  
 
 

JULY 8

 

Departure of Matthew Flinders from Sydney on the sloop Norfolk.  
 
 

JULY 14

 

Arrival of Matthew Flinders at Cape Moreton........  
 
 

 

 

 

JULY 26

 

 

 

 

Arrival of the convict ship Hillsborough. David Dickinson Mann,  George Crossley, and  George Pell  were some of the convicts on board...........Read out the voyage in the Journal of  William Noah  -

William Noah was sentenced to death for burglary in 1797 at the age of 43. The sentence was commuted to transportation for life. From Newgate Prison he was taken to the transport ship Hillsborough. During the voyage to Sydney one third of the convicts on board died. Noah arrived in Sydney on 26 July 1799. He received a conditional pardon in 1815 and an absolute pardon in 1818. He became a clerk in the Government lumber yard and died in 1827

(A Voyage to Sydney in New South Wales in 1798 & 1799 and A Few Remarks of the County of Cumberland in New South Wales 1798 - 1799)

More about the convicts of the Hillsborough

 
 
 

SEPTEMBER

 

 

Population - General Return of the colony - 4,746.

Correspondence re the cost of food & supplies and living conditions for new arrivals

 
 
 

NOVEMBER 3

 

Arrival of ship Walker. Master John Nichol  
 
 

NOVEMBER 13

 

Departure of the Friendship from St. Helena. Bound for Botany Bay  
 
 

DECEMBER 8

 

Arrival of East India ship Swallow.

 
 
 

DECEMBER 14

 

Arrival  in Port Jackson of ship Martha-  with seal oil and skins. William Reed Master  
 
 

DECEMBER

 

 

Increasing confidence in the colony with success on the whale boats, production of sufficient wheat and discovery of wild cattle.

Success of the whale boats and Captain Eber Bunker

 
 

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