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1802

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Arrival of Nicholas Baudin at D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Van Diemen's Land

 
 

FEBRUARY

 

Attempt to cross the Blue Mountains by George Caley  
 

FEBRUARY

 

Arrival in Port Phillip of Lieutenant Murray in the Lady Nelson  
 

APRIL 26

 

Arrival of Mathew Flinders at Port Phillip  
 

MAY

 

Rations reduced in Sydney  
 

JUNE 2

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Death of Thomas Fyshe Palmer

The fate of Thomas Fyshe Palmer in 'The Monthly anthology, and Boston review' By Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Anthology Society (Boston, Mass.),

 

 
 

JUNE 13

 

Arrival of Convict transport Coromandel 1  with male prisoners on board. Convict John Howe  
 

JUNE 20

 

Arrival in Port Jackson of Nicolas Baudin on the French ship Le Geographe  
 

JUNE 26

 

Arrival of Hercules 1  from Ireland with 121 male and female prisoners. Convicts killed after a mutiny on the voyage  
 

JULY 7

 

Arrival of the Atlas from Cork with well known prisoner Sir Henry Browne Hayes. Convicts on board also included  Bligh supporter Roger Farrell, limeburner Anthony Dwyer, and notorious Newcastle runaways Patrick Ducey and Thomas Desmond

 
 

JULY 29

 

Appointment of Robert Fitzgerald as Inspector and Director of all Agricultural Settlements belonging to the Crown  
 

AUGUST 4

 

Arrival of  Perseus with 112 male convicts  
 

SEPTEMBER 30

 

Michael Rowland appointed Superintendent of convicts  
 

OCTOBER 18

 

Appointment of Charles Throsby as Medical Officer at Castle Hill and Magistrate of the Territory  
 

NOVEMBER 28

 

Appointment of  Captain William Kent, R.N., as Magistrate of the Territory  
 

NOVEMBER

 

Departure from Parramatta of Francis Barrallier in an attempt to cross the Blue Mountains

 Journal of the expedition into the interior of New South Wales, 1802, by order of ... Governor Philip Gidley King

 
 

 

 

Oversupply of goods in the colony after the arrival of ships with speculative cargoes  

Free Settler or Felon?

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