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Robert Coram Dillon
Robert Coram Dillon arrived on the
Jessie
in
1821 when he was 30 years old. Other settlers arriving on the Jessie included
Henry Dangar and
Alexander Livingstone (Livingstone later married Ann, sister of
Robert Dillon).
Robert Dillon brought with him property amounting to
£1200 which he intended to invest in stock and cultivation of the land. He
received a land grant of 600 acres and was assigned three convicts to be
victualled from the stores at Newcastle. He selected this land adjoining the
farms of James Kelly and eventually established a farm on the land which would
later be known as Hinton
A partnership was established between Dillon and
John
Bingle and they received land in Newcastle to build a commercial house and
permission to build a 50 tons vessel to begin a weekly shipping service between
Sydney and Newcastle. He was supplied with 400 bricks and 60 bushels of lime in
1823. The Deed for this land in Newcastle, 46
perches in Watt Street (allotment no.2) was claimed by
James Reid in 1839 who
purchased it from Mr. Bettington
Robert Coram Dillon died in 1841 aged 45 and was buried
in the Glebe cemetery at East Maitland
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