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Travelling to the new settlement at Newcastle on the vessel 'James'
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Colonial Secretary's Correpondence. Copies of letters ent 1809 - 1813. Item 4/3490C p.21
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Circular to John Palmer, Richard Atkins, John Williamson, William Gore, Rev. Fulton, George Sutton, Martin Mason, Frederick Oakes, Nicholas Divine, George Caley. (Extract) His Majesty's ships under the Command of Commodore Bligh will positively sail for England on Sunday 6 May and it is His Excellency's express direction that you repair on board H.M. Hindostan with all your baggage in order to prosecute your voyage to England and that having embarked you do not again come on shore
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Accompanied Lieut. Menzies to Newcastle 1804
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Historical Records of Australia. Series 1, Vol. 2 1797 - 1800. p. 241.
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Under Secretary King to Governor Hunter. Sir, Whitehall, 14th December, 1798. 14 Dec. Sir Joseph Banks having warmly recommended to his Grace the Duke of Portland a young man (George Caley*) who has for upwards of three years studied practical botany and horticulture under his direction, and who from his natural bent towards these studies feels an irresistible impulse to travel into foreign parts, under a full persuasion that he shall be able to discover something useful to the manufactures of the mother country, I am directed by his Grace to desire that the customary ration from the public stores should be issued to him, and that suitable accommodation should be provided for him. I am also to request that he may be permitted to avail himself of any opportunity that may occur of making journeys inland for the purpose of discovering anything likely to prove beneficial to the mother country or to the colony of New South Wales. As the young man is full of health, and abounding with zeal for his favourite pursuit, I make no doubt but that you will give him every encouragement to animate his exertions towards attaining these desirable objects. I am, etc J. King.
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Historical Records of Australia. Series 1, Vol. 2 1797 - 1800. p. 237
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Note 96, page 241. George Caley. Caley was the son of a horse-dealer, and had been educated at Manchester Free Grammar School, afterwards working for some time in Kew Gardens. He was attached to Lieutenant-Governor King s party, and arrived in Port Jackson on the whaler, Speedy, on the 15th April, 1800. He was a man of peculiar temperament, morose and quarrelsome, but fully competent in his work of botanical collecting. Banks thought so highly of his services, that ten years later he offered to relieve him of his duties and to give him a pension of £50 per annum. During his sojourn in the colony, Caley received his rations from the Government, but in all other ways he was entirely supported by Banks through the agency of Governors King and Bligh. In the course of his botanical labours, in 1802 he explored the Cowpasture district and discovered Picton Lakes, and in 1805 he penetrated the Blue Mountains to the foot of Mount King George, travelling on the ranges north of the Grose Valley
