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Dr.
Coleman arrived in Australia in 1831. In December of that
year he was advertising his services:
' Mr.
Coleman, Surgeon & Apothecary begs leave to inform inhabitants of Maitland and
vicinity that he intends practicing the different branches of his profession at
Maitland (adjoining
Wakefield Simpson)
and to add that he has laid in a general assortment of drugs
and necessaries for formation of a retail establishment on
moderate terms.'
Convicts were assigned
to Dr. Coleman in Maitland and Paterson - Peter Crawley, who
arrived on the Asia in 1832 was assigned in 1832; Stephen McCarthy per
'Earl Grey' in 1837
By 1836
Coleman was residing in the Paterson district where a convict groom and a labourer
were assigned to him.
Court of Claims - July 1841 - Sydney Gazette
Case No. 1009. Dr. Coleman -
Twenty five acres, county of Durham parish of Butterwick;
commencing at the western extreme of the south boundary line of Anthony Dwyer's
60 acres occupancy, and bounded on the north by 13 chains and 25 links of that
boundary line, bearing east; on the east by a line dividing it from Morgan's 24
acres bearing south 20 chains and 60 links; on the south by a west line of 11
chains and 75 links to Paterson's River; and on the west by Paterson's River
upwards, to the western extreme of the south boundary line of Anthony Dwyer's
occupancy aforesaid.
Thomas Addison
Thomas Addison
now deceased, one of the original settlers at
Patterson's Plains, preferred retaining his land on lease for 7 years from the
1st July 1824 to the receipt of 190 acres elsewhere, and compensation for
improvements. Fifty acres were accordingly marked out for him and described so
as to include his improvements. In 1829 the whole of Patterson's Plains 2810
acres, were granted to the Corporation, but has since reverted to the Crown
under the Act of council 5th William IV., No. 11, and the preparation of deeds
of grant of this and other lands have been sanctioned by Sir George Gipps on 3rd
July 1839. Addison, it is alleged, divided this portion of his land to one
Robert Whitmore,
who sold to claimant. The other half formed the subject of the Case No. 438.
Tenders were called for construction of
a brick cottage to be completed on his farm at the Paterson River in 1845
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