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1799

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

 What did they subsist on during the journey?

 
 

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 J. W. 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.  
Arrival of Matthew Flinders at Cape Moreton........  
Arrival of ship Hillsborough. David Dickinson Mann. George Crossley, George Pell convicts on board...........

More about George Crossley

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

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

Free Settler or Felon?

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