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Petition for Major Johnstone to remain magistrate.
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Assigned two convicts - a servant and a shoemaker's boy in the month of February
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Signature on petition to Legislative Council by Hunter River district inhabitants regarding the 'Summary Punishment Bill'
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Government Cottage, Pattersons Plains
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NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
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149. Ralph Smith per Ocean, assigned servant to Timothy Nowlan and Peter Brady per Dorothy assigned servant to Benjamin Davis charged with stealing a sheep the property of Timothy Nowlan...Edward Keely, overseer to Mr. Nowlan states....On Thursday 15th June, I missed a sheep out of my masters flock. Benjamin Davis states...Last Sunday I was looking for some ducks which I had reason to suppose were stolen from my yard and in the search I found part of a sheep and having ascertained that Mr. Nowlan had lost one, I informed him of what I had found; the mutton could not have been where I found it without the knowledge of the prisoners...John Ward, servant to Mr. Nowlan states....I had charge of my masters flock of sheep; on the day the one was missed, I saw Smith wake one out of the flock and kill it; he charged me not to mention what I had seen to any one. Smith made no defence. Brady denies any knowledge of the transaction. Sentence - Ralph Smith to be sent to Port Macquarie for the remainder of his original sentence. Peter Brady to be returned to government
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Formerly employed on T. Nowlan's sheep run. Witness in trial of John McPhee
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Subscriber for the Irish Relief Fund
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Requesting a public meeting to petition against re-introduction of transportation
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Assigned 1 convict labourer
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Assigned 1 convict ploughman
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On Subscription List for building a Church in the Township of Paterson