,13 and after travelling to
the area, selected 600 acres on the Paterson Plains
across the river from the grant of George Lang. He
named the grant Wallalong (Wollalaghn) and built a
cottage on the land.
Scott may not have spent a great deal of time at
Wallalong at this time. He may have used assigned
servants (convicts) to clear and fence the land and
grow crops as he was employed at Newcastle as
Commissariat clerk and storeman. He probably worked
in the government cottage set aside for the
Commissariat clerk. This cottage was situated nearby
the Parsonage not very far from the hospital.
In 1824 Scott
accompanied Lieutenant Henry Miller, Allan
Cunningham, John Oxley, together with convicts and
soldiers to Moreton Bay to establish a new penal
settlement there. The first settlement,
established near Redcliffe, was soon abandoned and
the site where Brisbane now stands was selected due
to the reliable source of water. Here barracks for
soldiers and convicts, huts, sawpit, kiln and
blacksmith's forge were established. There was also
an army store which Scott probably controlled. Scott
worked as surgeon until Henry Cowper who had
been formerly appointed surgeon, arrived in 1826.
By 1828,
Scott had returned to the the Hunter district and he
was once more working at Newcastle as
Commissary Clerk. He purchased more land - 720 acres
in 1836 and 640 acres at Seaham in 1839. He had the
usual problems with convicts as two of his assigned
servants William Amos and Thomas Cartwright
absconded from service (at Paterson) in the winter
of 1834.
