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Launch of Henry Kable's whaler  King George - the first of its type in Australia

King George, Master William Moody, 185 tons in ballast to the River Derwent 9 October 1805; returned to Port Jackson 5 April 1806 with 1 ton black whale oil; sailed to the southward 27 April 1806; returned 12 August 1806.

 
 

JANUARY 1

 

Colonel Francis Grose of the New South Wales Corp appointed Major-General  
G.W. Evans, Surveyor General, discharged for fraud  
Lieutenant Menzies passenger to Sydney on the Francis  
 

 

Lieutenant Menzies resigned from position of Commandant at Newcastle

The Gentleman's Magazine Obituary of Charles Menzies d. 22 August 1866

 

 
Ensign Draffin appointed Commandant at Newcastle.  
 

MARCH/ APRIL

 Charles Throsby's appointment

 

Charles Throsby appointed Magistrate and Superintendent of convicts at Newcastle  
 

MARCH

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Loss of the vessel 'Francis' off Newcastle.......  
An account of the settlement at Newcastle by Charles Throsby to Governor King mentioning salt pans, cedar getting and the difficulties with Ensign Draffin  
Vessel 'Surprise' lost in a gale north of Coal Island...  
 

APRIL

 

Troops sent to the Hawkesbury after deaths of settlers at the hand of natives  
 

APRIL

 

Colonial cutter Nancy wrecked  
 

MAY 1

 

William Bligh Esq., appointed Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Settlement of New South Wales (The Morning Chronicle 1st May 1805)  
Correspondence to Governor King with news that Captain William Bligh was appointed Governor of New South Wales  

John Grant who arrived on the Coromandel in 1804 and was an associate of Maurice Margarot and Henry Browne Hayes, wrote a letter to Governor King in 1805. Grant was later convicted of sedition and sent to Norfolk Island. In 1808 he was employed as a chaplain at Newcastle

Select here to read more about John Grant in 'This Beauteous, Wicked place: Letters & Journals of John Grant' by Yvonne Cramer

 
 

SEPTEMBER 8

 

 

The schooner Governor Hunter arrived in Sydney with 20,000lbs of salt on account of the Government, made from the saltpans worked at Newcastle under the direction of Mr.Throsby. (SG)

 

 
 

NOVEMBER

 

Abandonment of settlement at Norfolk Island  
Four convicts escape from Newcastle and recaptured near Castle Hill  
 

DECEMBER

 

Hurricane at Newcastle  

Free Settler or Felon?