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Captain John Hunter Governor of Australia until September
1800
Governor John
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Arrival of convict ship
Minerva from
Ireland. Master Joseph Salkeld. Three convict deaths on the passage.
Irish rebel
Thomas Brady on board later
worked as a clerk at Newcastle. Stores included
25 pipes spirits, 6 tons sugar, 20 cases glass, 4 casks ironware, 5 casks
molasses, 60 pieces Irish linen, 4 boxes coffee, 150 bales Rio tobacco,
2trunks shoes, 1 hogshead hatts, 20 casks provisions, 15 furkins butter, 1
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FEBRUARY
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David Collins' description of the convicts of the
Friendship |
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Arrival
of ship
Friendship. Master Hugh
Reed. Convict Hugh Develyn on board later became servant to Lieut. Skottowe.
Convict Timothy Hector remunerated for house at Newcastle 1819
The Voyage of the Convict Ship Friendship 1800
- From a Journal kept by the wife of Master Hugh Reed
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales From Its First Settlement in January 1788, to August 1801 |
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Hawkesbury River in Flood |
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Arrival of botanist George Caley and Lieutenant Governor King and family on the
Speedy
Select here for George Caley at Australian
Dictionary of Biography
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Major Joseph Foveaux appointed
acting Lieutenant
governor Norfolk Island
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Entrance to Lake Macquarie discovered by William Reid when he
confused the entrance to the lake for Newcastle harbour. The lake was known
for many years as 'Reid's Mistake'.
Account by David Collins
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Mutiny on board the convict ship Anne on the voyage
from Cork, having departed Cork 26 June 1800. Master James Stewart. |
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Irish Conspiracy uncovered. The plan was to overturn the
government by putting Governor King to Death and confining Governor Hunter. The
rebels were to meet at and take Parramatta and then before day light take
the Barracks at Sydney. And afterwards to live on the Farms of the Settlers
until they heard from France where they had intended to dispatch a ship. The
rebels were well armed with pikes and were to be joined by soldiers who
it was planned would take the guns to South Head and other places of security. When the
plan was revealed, Governor Hunter ordered an enquiry.
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Irish Conspiracy quashed
Correspondence from Port Jackson to England in October 1800 |
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Governor King established a system of Fees and Assessments to
which all masters of English or foreign merchant vessels arriving at Port
Jackson were liable. This revenue from imported goods was the beginning of a
'Custom's House' in the colony |
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Governor John Hunter embarked on board HMS
Buffalo. Captain Philip Gidley King assumed administration of colony.
Rev. Richard Johnson also returned to England on the Buffalo
Lieutenant Philip Gidley King. National
Archives of Australia |
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Examples of flora and fauna sent to England on the HMS
Buffalo
John Hunter took 'many curiosities' back to England amongst which were
three black swans (Caledonia
Mercury 4 June 1801) and
three emus (David
Collins) In this month
a joey was produced by the kangaroo taken to England some months before (Morning Chronicle 10 March 1801) |
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Surgeon of the Buffalo, Martin Mason appointed
assistant to principal surgeon of colony
More about Martin Mason here
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Purchase of Orphan Institution
Governor King's reasons for the need of the Orphan Institution |
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Departure from France of Nicolas Baudin on the
30-gun corvettes, La Gêographe and La Naturaliste.
Louis Claude Desaulces de Freycinet joined this expedition which, was
commissioned by the French government, as surveyor.
Read more about Nicholas Baudin
at 'Encounter 1802 - 2002' |
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Arrival of the Porpoise with four
tons of 1 oz., 1797 dated cartwheel pennies struck by Matthew Boulton.
Read
more here |
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Arrival of
Royal
Admiral. On board Two French vignerons, 12 missionaries & prisoners of war Antoine Landrien and Francois de Riveau.
Thomas Shirley, a convict of the Royal Admiral was drowned in the
Hunter River in 1808 while attempting to rescue the vessel Halcyon in
a gale |
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Death of Judge Advocate Richard Dore
Read more about Richard Dore at
Wikipedia |
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Arrival of James Grant on board the Lady Nelson.
Sailed through Bass Strait,
the first ship direct from England to do so. |
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Richard Atkins appointed Judge Advocate
Read the Journal of Richard Atkins at Macquarie Law |
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