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1818

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Total population in New South Wales.....17,165

Total population in Van Dieman's Land....3,214

Of the above there were 4,100 male convicts and 2340 female convicts and 850 of their children

600 soldiers of the 48th regiment

(The Morning Chronicle 28 November 1818)

 
 

 

 

Public floggings end in 1818. All flogging hereafter to be administered in barracks yards  

 

 

 

 

 

Noted in the London newspapers that 'From the long indiscriminate destruction of the whole tribe of seals, these valuable animals have become as rare on the shores of New Holland and its adjacent island, as they have lately proved in all other parts of the world.' (The Morning Chronicle 28 November 1818)  
 

 

 

Maitland established. Called 'The Camp', Molly Morgan's Plains' and 'Wallis Plains' and later 'Maitland'  

 

 

 

JANUARY

 

Great Western road completed.  

 

 

 

JANUARY 1

 

Appointment of Rev. Richard Hill as Senior Assistant-Chaplain of NSW  
 

JANUARY 26

 

Australia Day celebrations held  

 

 

 

MARCH

 

Overland route from Sydney to Jervis Bay pioneered by Charles Throsby  

 

 

 

APRIL 30

 

Arrival of Captain Francis Allman  on the Minerva with 48th regiment. Also on board 160 convicts for Hobart.

 

 

 

APRIL/MAY

 

Benjamin Singleton explored route to the Hunter Valley  
 

MAY

 

 

Macquarie River explored by Oxley and Evans

 

 

 

JULY 28

 

Tour of inspection of Newcastle by Governor Macquarie  

 

 

 

AUGUST

 

John Oxley sights the Warrumbungle Ranges, Liverpool Plains and the Peel River.  
 

OCTOBER

 

Port Macquarie named by John Oxley

Oxley's expedition 1817 - 1818 (Project Gutenberg)

 
 

OCTOBER

 

Bushranger Michael Howe killed by Pugh and Worrall on the banks of the Shannon River. VDL  

 

 

Return of John Oxley's expedition to Port Stephens  

Captain James Morisset, 48th regt., appointed Magistrate and Commandant at Newcastle in the room of Captain James Wallis

 

 

 

DECEMBER

 

 

Captain Wallis commended for the improvements to Newcastle settlement while he was Commandant.

 

 

Free Settler or Felon?

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