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Estimated population 12,471 |
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Detachment of 73rd
regiment stationed at Newcastle |
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Convict
Thomas Brady permitted to return to Sydney from
Newcastle |
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Arrival of convict transport
Guildford from London.
Convict artist
William Harrison Craig
on board. In August Craig was convicted of forgery and sentenced
to 50 lashes and 7 years at Newcastle penal settlement. He later
escaped from the settlement and was re-captured and sent to Van
Diemen's Land |
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Coalmines and cedar camps at
Newcastle visited by Governor Macquarie
'From Port Stephens the Governor
proceeded to Newcastle, where he viewed the Coal Mines, and those parts of the
river where Lime is made. Proceeding to the first branch, at the distance of
twenty miles from the Town, he was much gratified to find that this useful
Settlement, already furnishing the colony with Cedar, Coals and Lime, also
promises from the fertility of the soil higher up the River, to provided for the
increasing Population of the Country, being fit for the purposes of Agriculture
and Grazing.
On Sunday the 5th
January 1812, the governor departed from Newcastle on his Return to Sydney, and
arrived here on the following day, a highly gratified with his tour, and with
the hope of deriving considerable advantage from the local knowledge he has thus
obtained of the different subordinate settlements, since his departure from the
Seat of Government.' - Sydney Gazette
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Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Davey appointed
Lieutenant-Governor of the settlements at Van Diemen's Land |
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Surveyor George W. Evans departed Sydney in the
Lady Nelson and reached Jervis Bay the following day |
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George Evans and party set out from Jervis Bay
camping nearby present day Wollongong on 11 April |
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News reached England of the discovery of Macquarie Island and
that 80,000 seals had already been caught at the island in just a few months |
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Ship Campbell
Macquarie wrecked on Macquarie Island
The cargo
of 1650 seal skins, was lost.
Captain Richard Siddons with the Officers and crew,
saved themselves on the island; and, after residing there from the 10th of
June to 11th October were discovered and taken off by the brig
Perseverance of Port Jackson. (Ipswich Journal 11
Dec., 1813) |
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War on Britain declared by United States of America. |
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Select Committee Report to the House of Commons on
transportation to New South Wales |
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Colonial vessels Sally and Boyd wrecked
'THE BOYD a small colonial
vessel, whose bottom was originally the long boat of the ship Boyd, which
was captured at New Zealand in
1809,
was last week unfortunately lost with a full freight of wheat
from Hawkesbury, on a beach between Hunter’s river and Port
Stevens, commonly called the Sand Hills; two persons drowned,
and one saved. The sufferers were James Wallis, who belonged to
the vessel, and – Hubbard, son of a Mr. Hubbard, settler on the
River Hawkesbury, whose intention of coming round was to take
care of a quantity of wheat belonging to his father, and which
of course has perished with the vessel.' - Sydney Gazette |
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Convict transport
Minstrel arrived at Port Jackson.
Elizabeth Hannell
arrived as a prisoner on
the Minstrel |
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John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley (1784? -
1828), by unknown artist, courtesy of State Library of New
South Wales. |
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Lieutenant John Oxley
R.N., Surveyor-General of New South Wales arrived on the
Minstrel |
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The vessel Emu enroute to Hobart with female convicts seized by American
privateer Holkar 
Naval History of the United States by Thomas
Clark |
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Departure of the Isabella, Captain George
Highton. Wrecked on an Island of the Falklands in February 1813.
Passengers on board included Captain Drury, 73rd Regiment, wife
and family; 'General' Joseph Holt (Irish rebel leader) wife and
family;
Sir Henry Browne Hayes;
3 returned female convicts; Mr. Madison and three marines and
their wives.
(Morning Chronicle (London) 21 June 1813) |
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