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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 |
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Floods at the Hawkesbury river
begin. Crops and stock destroyed. Govt. store house swept away |
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Arrival of ship Buffalo.
Surgeon Mr. Mason. Passenger John William Lewin |
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Arrival of the Albion,
Captain Bunker, from England with 900 tons of salt pork. |
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Departure of Matthew Flinders from
Sydney on the sloop Norfolk. |
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Arrival of Matthew Flinders at Cape
Moreton........ |
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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 |
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Population - General
Return of the colony - 4,746.
Correspondence re the cost of food & supplies and
living conditions for new arrivals |
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Arrival of ship
Walker. Master John Nichol |
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Departure of the Friendship
from St. Helena. Bound for Botany Bay |
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Arrival of East India ship
Swallow.
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Arrival in Port
Jackson of ship
Martha- with seal oil and skins. William Reed Master
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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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