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Launch of the colonial schooner Governor Hunter on 17th January 1805. Built
by Isaac Nichols. Lost at sea 1816
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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.
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January 1......
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Colonel Francis Grose of the New South Wales Corp appointed
Major-General
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February......
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G.W. Evans,
Surveyor General, discharged for fraud
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March.......
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Lieutenant Menzies passenger to
Sydney on the Francis
Excerpt from the Sydney Gazette
Lieutenant Menzies
resigned from position of Commandant at Newcastle
Read the resignation of Lieutenant Menzies here
The Gentleman's Magazine
Obituary of Charles
Menzies d. 22 August 1866
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March
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Ensign
Cadwallader Draffen appointed Commandant at Newcastle.
Governor
King's instructions to Ensign Draffin on his appointment as Commandant
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March/
April...... |
Charles Throsby
appointed Magistrate and Superintendent of convicts at Newcastle
Historical
Records of Australia
Series 1 Vol.
V, July 1804 - August 1806., p. 406. Governor
King to Earl Camden
Sydney New
South Wales 8 April
1805
My Lord,
The Command of
that Settlement (Newcastle) being given to an Ensign of the New South
Wales corps, it soon became necessary to remove him to this place in
consequence of a Mental Derangement, in which he still continues.
Having no other
person to put in charge of that productive and useful Establishment, I
have placed it under the Charge of Mr. Throsby, an Assistant Surgeon, who
conducts it with great Activity and Propriety.
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March......
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Loss of the vessel 'Francis'
off Newcastle.......READ
MORE
An account of the settlement at
Newcastle by Charles Throsby to Governor King mentioning salt pans, cedar getting and the
difficulties with Ensign Draffin
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April 11......
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Vessel 'Surprise' lost in a
gale north of Coal Island.......
WE are concerned to state the loss of the
sloop Surprise, belonging to Messrs, Kable
and Co. near the entrance of Hunter’s River, for
which place she sailed from hence on Thursday the 11th
instant; and after a dangerous and fatiguing
passage, the three latter days of which she was
quite out of water, made the spot upon which
she was lost, to the northward of the Coal Island
about two miles, and a heavy gale then suddenly
setting in, obliged the people to run her a shore
for the preservation of their lives, as no
possibility remained of getting the vessel out. She
grounded within two miles of the spot at the
entrance of the River upon which His Majesty’s
colonial vessel Francis was lately lost....Sydney Gazette 28
April 1805
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April......
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Troops sent to the Hawkesbury
after deaths of settlers at the hand of natives
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April......
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Colonial cutter Nancy wrecked
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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) Governor Bligh arrived on the Lady
Madeline Sinclair in
August 1806.
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July...... |
Correspondence to Governor
King with news that Captain William Bligh
was appointed Governor of New South Wales
Read
Viscount Castlereagh's Letter to Governor King here
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August....... |
Major Semple Lisle on charges of swindling in London.....The London Times 20
August 1805...... Police Office, Marlborough Street, Yesterday James
Lisle, alias Lesley, the ci-devant Major Semple, underwent an examination on
swingling charges. The prisoner is a well known public character, and it
will be remembered, that Government released him from a sentence of seven
years transportation, for his conduct on board the
Lady Shore, some years since, when the convicts mutinied on their
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John
Grant who arrived on the
Coromandel
in 1804 and
was an associate of Maurice Margarot and
Sir 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.
Extract of a
letter from John Grant, a Convict (an Associate of Margarot, Hayes &c., to
Gov'r King, dated 8th May 1805
Historical
Records of Australia. Series 1,
p. 537. Governor
King to Under Secretary Cooke
Sydney New
South Wales 20th July 1805
"Now, Sir! I
ask you, (as an Independent Englishman) viewing with astonishment the
miserable State to which Thousands of unfortunate Men are reduced in this
Colony, by what Authority do those in power at Home - by what Right do you
- make Slaves of Britons in this distant quarter of the globe?"
Find out more about John Grant in 'This
Beauteous, Wicked place: Letters & Journals of John Grant' by Yvonne
Cramer
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September 8.......
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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)
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November......
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Abandonment of settlement at
Norfolk Island
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December......
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Four convicts escape from
Newcastle and recaptured near Reid's Mistake
Read
an article from the Sydney Gazette here
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December......
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Hurricane at Newcastle
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