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INDEX Committee of Management of A. A. Company, 68, 610, 611; for cost of convict wrongly sent to Port Stephens Note: References are to letter on Company estate, 40; Mr Dawson, 56, numbers not page numbers 61, 62, 611; Charles Goodluck, 402; Mr Hexham, 250; Francis Mitchell, 402; th 17 Regiment: and drunken soldiers, 344 newspaper, 12a, 15, 68, 184, 258, 265, 57th Regiment: and provision of guards 266, 302, 342, 358, 361; James Norton, for assigned convicts, 23 581; H. C. Sempill, 432; George M. Slade, 16, 22; Thomas Street, 3b; Mr Weaver, 135 A. A. Company: accounts, 63, 108, 109, 151; Annual Report of, 204a; accounts payable to A. A. Company: arrangements relating to lands granted James Bowman, 409; William Buchanan, to or leased by, including further 245; Colonial Committee of Management selection of land, 344a; further grant of A. A. Company, 611, 612; Colonial of land, 605, 621; outlay of, 536; Government, 26, 95, 115, 324, 423; population of estate of, 60; proposals Charles Cooper, 568; Thomas Cowper, re intended grant of land at Newcastle, 244; executors of late John Oxley, 243; 347a; relinquishment of part of estate A. C. Innes, 260; Lamb, Buchanan & of, 240; superintendence of accounts, Co., 315; H. H. McArthur, 408; John 469; see also Agricultural Department; Macarthur, 407; John Piper, 246; Mr Cattle Department; Coal Department; Street, 264; S. Terry, 311a; see also debts Colonial Committee of Management to A. A. Company of A. A. Company; Court of Directors; Achison or Atkinson, Thomas (convict): Court of Directors of A. A. Company; alteration of tickets of leave to Sydney, Department of Accounts; Department of 633 Manufactures (and of Works); Governors Adair, Mr: and appointment of clergyman and Directors of A. A. Company; Horse on Company estate, 343 and Cattle Department; shares in A. A. Adams, John (Carrington): agreement, Company; Sheep Department; stock of 212; request to be discharged, 332 A. A. Company; Stud Department Adrian: convicts on, 273 Aborigines: and assigned convicts for Coal Works, 217; and death of James advertisements; see under The Australian; Tongue, 165; as messengers, 232 Sydney Gazette; Sydney Herald accidental deaths: of assigned convicts, agent of A. A. Company in Sydney see 346; see also deaths Bunn, George Accountant to A. A. Company, 51; Agricultural Department, 497 absence of, 446, 447; announcement agricultural labourers: application for of appointment of, 556a; position of, assignment of, 19a, 67, 73, 199, 206, 447; see also Barton, William (Company 435, 488, 516, 613, 635 Accountant — Port Stephens); Allan, Colonel: and provision of guards Ebsworth, James Edward (Company for assigned convicts, 23 Accountant — Carrington, Port Allan, Nichol (Sydney): and George Stephens) Bunn, 437; and Henry Douglass, 434 accounts payable by A. A. Company: Allen, George: and removal of William William Barton, 135, 136; George Bunn, Barton’s furniture and other property 91, 117, 149, 212, 587, 593, 598, 608, from Company house, 458 622, 629; Mr Burnett, 135; Colonial
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Allen, Thomas (convict): non-arrival of, assigned convicts, see also shingle 273 splitters; admission of to General allowances in servants, produce or Hospital, Sydney, 78, 111, 200, 215, money, 107, 107a, 186, 259, 261, 268, 257, 403, 426, 466; application for, 19a, 390, 497, 509 59, 67, 73, 158, 189, 199, 206, 211, 212, 293, 389, 418, 435, 445, 448, 449, 450, America: convicts on, 273, 303, 389 462, 488, 501, 512, 516, 522, 530, 546, Anderson, Michael (alias Andrew Bell) 562, 579, 613, 635, 636; application (convict): non-arrival of, 303 for 25 from every convict ship, 213; angina pectoris, 590 arrival of, 103, 134, 146, 191, 207, Anley, Ferdinand (Newcastle): and 222; to be sent to Port Stephens when request for employment, 75, 96a apprehended, 154; Henry Blackford and, 358a; clothing, shoes, blankets Anly, Captain (Superintendent of Police, th etc. for, 94, 188, 217, 593, 598, 608, Maitland; Captain H.M. 17 Regiment): 622; for Coal Works, Newcastle, 217, and request for assistance in bringing 297; death of, 85, 165, 346, 439, 485, group of ten convicts to Port Stephens, 590, 591; entering homes of indentured 542 servants for the purpose of drinking, Ann and Amelia: convicts on, 514 236; escape of, 589, 592; exchange Annual Report: letters to proprietors of of, 380, 400, 427, 497, 545, 580, 586, stock in A. A. Company in respect of, 604, 607; group of ten, 514, 517, 542, 204a 546; information about ticket of leave Archdeacon of New South Wales, for, 153; inquiries re, 41; loan of, 512; the Venerable: and appointment of medical services for, 59, 60; mess clergyman on Company estate, 343; and utensils for, 382; native, 609, 634; non- spiritual welfare of Company at Port arrival of, 74, 273, 279, 303, 514, 517, Stephens, C, 167; see also Broughton, 589a; objection of Company Surgeon Venerable Archdeacon (Sydney) J. E. Stacy to attending convicts not assigned to A. A. Company, 605; Armstrong, John (surveyor): employment quantity of work to be expected of, of, 5; and establishment of Savings Bank 84, 130; rations for, 84; records of, 24; at Port Stephens, 247; and exchange request for information about, 174; of assigned convicts, 607; and free return of after punishment, 405; tobacco store at Port Stephens, 3a; and plans for, 229; transfer of, 318, 440; transport of buildings, 5; plans of men’s house at of to Port Stephens, 23; unauthorised Newcastle, 382; and report of survey, E employment of by Company employees, Arthur, Alexander (convict): to be sent to 176; wrongly assigned to Port Stephens, Port Stephens, 154; in General Hospital, 40; see also agricultural labourers; Sydney, 134 blacksmiths; Board for the Assignment Ascott, Thomas (Mr Langton’s, near of Servants; bricklayers; brickmakers; Barker’s Hill, Sydney): request for bullock drivers; carpenters; carters; employment, 10 clerks; coalminers; gardener’s boys; Asia, 68, 87; convicts on, 389, 501, 591; grooms; horse-shoers; indoor servants; passage of Mrs Stacey on, 69 joiners; labourers; mechanics; plasterers; Principal Superintendent of Convicts; Aspinall & Co. (soap manufacturers, sawyers; schoolmaster; seamen; Sydney): and kelp or barilla for shepherds; shoemakers; stable boys; manufacture of soap, 569 stone-cutters; stonemasons; waggoners; assault: of William Farrell by William watermen; wheelwrights Barton, 371, 374 page 424 Index
Atkinson or Achison, Thomas (convict): barley, 27b, 598 alteration of tickets of leave to Sydney, Barnes, James (son of William Barnes): 633 request to be put in shoemaking Australia, 62, 173; wool transported on, business, 89 81, 82 Barnes, William: requests re employment The Australian: account, 12a, 15, 258, of sons, 89 302, 358; advertisements, 3, 15, 23, Barnes, William (son of William Barnes): 169, 269, 489b, 534a; delivery of to request to be put on salary, 89 Port Stephens, 3, 3b, 12a, 15, 117, 184, Barnett, Richard: complaint against for 283; duplicate numbers received, 533, false pretence of sickness, 80 537; notices, 68, 556a, 624a; share call advertisements, 42, 117, 616; see also Barrier Reef: chart of passages through, Hayes, A. E. 177 Australian Agricultural Company see A. Barrow, John (Secretary of the Admiralty, A. Company London): and extension of leave of absence of Sir Edward Parry, 490; and Australian Almanack: order of copies of, proposed Nautical Almanac for 1834, 544, 548 451 Avery, William (convict): request for barter transactions, 232, 288, 373; assignment of, 211 difficulties with, 444 Barton, William (Company Accountant bags for flour, 3b, 537, 538 — Port Stephens): account of, 135, Baker, John: and discharge from 136; and accounts of Mr Dawson, 61, indenture, 64 62; and accounts relating to boring ballast: dumping of by ships at for coal at Newcastle, 120; accusation Newcastle, 396, 441, 478, 495 of dishonesty against, 274/275, 285; and agreement of Adams, John, 212; Bank of Australia: arrangements with, and allowances in servants, produce 25, 43; financial transactions, 351, or money, 107a; announcement of 352, 430, 611; financial transactions replacement of as Company Accountant, with, 3, 23, 51, 68, 160, 170, 171, 219, 556a; arrangement of passage to 233, 292, 351, 352; and Port Stephens England for, 437, 443, 453; and Savings Bank, 483, 492; shares of Port arrangements between Company and Stephens Savings Bank in, 548; see also Bank of Australia, 446; and assault of McVitie [Macvitie], Thomas (Managing William Farrell, 371, 374; case of, 416; Director of Bank of Australia, Sydney); and casting of wheels for threshing Managing Director of Bank of Australia; machines, 225; and clerk, 110, 212; Spark, A. B. and Company accounts, 63, 108; and Bank of New South Wales: price of shares convict clerk, 113; and copy of letter to in, 568 Captain Moffatt, 413; correspondence, barilla: from mangroves for manufacture 143, 144; and correspondence, 70, of soap, 569–570 81; and Department of Manufactures bark see mimosa bark accounts, 109, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129; and dog-cart, 194; and Thomas Barker, Mr: and offer of land, 428 Lindsey Ebsworth, 124, 126, 127; Barker, Thomas: and market for coal for and establishment of Savings Bank at steam engines, 132 Port Stephens, 247, 263; and financial Barker, Thomas (Sydney): and market for matters, 5, 51, 61, 193, 197, 198; and coal for steam engines, 99 free store at Port Stephens, 3a; and
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general order relating to requisitions, blacksmiths: application for assignment 127, 128, 137; and information about of, 198, 448; assignment of, 279; need assigned convicts, 174; and instructions for assignment of, 154 to William Wetherman, 141; and Blake, Patrick (convict): admission mechanics, 212; and memorandum to General Hospital, Sydney, 200; from Alexander Nisbet, 143, 149; and mistakenly believed to be servant missing vouchers, 304; and Alexander of District Constable, 410 (see Blake, Nisbet, 124, 125, 126, 127; and office- Thomas) messenger, 107a; and premises in Blake, Thomas: servant of District Macquarie Place, Sydney, 61, 62, 71, Constable, 410 72; and removal of furniture and other property from Company house, 458; Board for the Assignment of Servants and request for explanation by William (Sydney): application for assigned Burnett re, 504; and requisitions, 141; convicts, 530, 546, 562, 567, 613, salary and conditions of employment of, 635, 636; application for exchange of 259; and sale of rams, 212; and use of assigned convicts, 545; and group of ten horse, 280 convicts assigned to A. A. Company, 546; see also Principal Superintendent of Bathurst see Brown, Andrew Convicts (Wallerawang, District of Bathurst); Maclean, D. (Bathampton, Bathurst); Boardman, Thomas (Sydney): and Piper, John (Bathurst) position of Superintendent of Horses and Cattle, 33 Beal, Charles (Carrington): and allowances and request for increase in salary, 186 Boardman, Thomas (Wallis’ Plains): request for employment, 18 Beattie, Mr: and agreement for letting John Henderson’s house, 175 Bodebham, Thomas (George Street, Sydney): and sale of cattle, 500 Beavis, Robert (convict), 282 Booral: church services at, 167; see also Beecher, Richard (convict): exchange of, Burnett, William (Booral, Sydney) 461 Booral Stroud: selling spirits at, 28 beef: tender for supply of to military detachment at Port Stephens, 535; Booth, William (convict): death of, 346 tenders for supply of, 387, 388 boots: shipment of, 184 Bell, Andrew (convict) see Anderson, Borodino: convicts on, 303 Michael (alias Andrew Bell) (convict) Boucher, Frederick (Newcastle): and Bench of Magistrates at Port Stephens see tender of premises at Newcastle, 178 Resident Magistrates, Port Stephens Bourke, Lieutenant General Richard Berry, Alexander (Sydney): proprietor of (Governor of N. S. W.): and military stock in A. A. Company, 204a, 618 detachment at Port Stephens, 582; Bettington, J. B. (Sydney): and shipment and police establishment on Company of wool to England, 339 estate, 582; and proposal to make Port Stephens Savings Bank a branch of that Biddulph, E.: drafts from, 561 at Sydney, 573; and request for grant for Birmingham, John (convict): assignment Company wharf and warehouse and coal of, 418 depot in Sydney, 536 Blackett, George (Collingwood, Bowman, Dr, 69, 184, 545 Liverpool): and position of Bowman, James (Woolloomooloo, Superintendent of Horses and Cattle, 32 Sydney): and account of, 409; account Blackford, Henry: and assignment of of as member of Colonial Committee convicts to, 358a page 426 Index
of Management, 611; and account of Brown, Thomas: bearer of letter, 594 George Bunn, 91; bills drawn by, 62; Brown, Thomas (convict): non-arrival of, claim re passage of Mrs Croasdill on 273 Vibelia, 69; and death of horse ‘Herald’, Browning, Dr: and assignment of convict 62; and financial matters, 1, 21, 51, 56, as schoolmaster, 562 62, 171, 406; proprietor of stock in A. A. Company, 204a; see also McArthur, Buchanan, Mr: articles borrowed from, H. H. (Parramatta, Sydney) 382; and assigned convicts for Coal Works, 217; and plan of Newcastle, 161 bran, 290b, 326, 524, 583, 596 Buchanan, W. (Post Office, Newcastle): breeding stock: on Company estate, E, 2 and forwarding of letters, 277 Breeze, Thomas: and Peter Jackson, 595 Buchanan, William (Newcastle): and Breeze, Thomas (convict): non-arrival of, delivery of cattle, 520; and purchase 273 of Government stock, 386; and sale of brickfield, 27c cattle, 459, 480; and stud service, 245 bricklayers: application for assignment of, bullock drivers: application for 19a, 67, 199, 293, 389, 448; assignment assignment of, 389 of, 279 bullock hides: shipment of, 327, 349 brickmakers: application for assignment bullocks: offer of sale of, 360; payment of, 19a, 67 for, 432 bricks: demand for, 106; tender for, 23 bulls: sale of, 224; see also Durham bulls; Brickwood, Mr (Secretary to the Court of Scotch bulls Directors of A. A. Company — London): Bunn, George (merchant and Company’s and application by Henry Dangar for agent — George Street, Sydney): and additional land, 102; correspondence, accommodation for James Steel, 184; 81, 82; and financial matters, 62; and account of, 91, 117, 149, 212, 587, 593, letter re public provision of police on 598, 608, 622, 629; and accounts of Coal Company estate, 582; and stores on Lady Works, 402; as agent of A. A. Company Rowena, 198 in Sydney, B, 6; and Nichol Allan, 437; Bridges, Thomas (convict): assignment of, and arranging passage to England for 389 William Barton, 437, 443, 453; and Brook, Dr, 290b assigned servants of A. A. Company subpoened in case of Michael Connolly, Broughton, Venerable Archdeacon 566a; and Australian Almanack, 544, (Sydney): and spiritual welfare of 576; and bags of Lamb, Buchanan & Co., population of Company estate, 131; see 576; and case of attempted fraud, 598; also Archdeacon of New South Wales, and castings, 548, 556, 576, 587, 593, the Venerable 598, 629; claim against Company, 1, 23; Brown, Andrew (convict): assignment of, and clothing for assigned convicts, 593, 389 598, 608, 622; and debt of Mr Phillips, Brown, Andrew (Wallerawang, District 225; and deficiency in shipment of of Bathurst): and payment of account of goods, 218, 225, 336, 402, 428; and James Walker, 364, 365; and position of deficiency of flour, 319; and delivery in Superintendent of Horses and Cattle, 44 shipment of goods, 428; and delivery Brown, Moses (cap-maker, George Street, of goods, 3b; and despatches and other Sydney): and exchange of assigned correspondence, 96, 117, 135, 159, 214, convicts, 380, 400, 427 252, 258, 548, 558, 624; duties of as agent of A. A. Company in Sydney, B;
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and exchange of deficient goods, 587; 422; and tenders for supplies, 377; financial matters, 319, 336; and financial and threshing machines, 220, 225; and matters, 3, 3b, 23, 42, 46, 57, 68, 79, 96, tobacco, 173, 294; and transport of coal 117, 135, 136, 159, 173, 184, 198, 214, to Hobart Town, 225 218, 225, 241, 283, 302, 330, 359, 384, Burke, James (convict): subpoened in case 402, 428, 433, 437, 455, 460, 517, 523, of Michael Connolly, 566a 533, 537, 544, 548, 555, 558, 568, 571, Burnett, John: allowance for as clerk of 576, 587, 593, 608, 622, 632; and flour Port Stephens Savings Bank, 509 bags, 537; and horseshoe nails, 565, 576; and information about purchases Burnett, Mrs (Sydney): request for of wheat, 366; and letters to proprietors expenses for stay in Sydney of William of stock in A. A. Company in respect of Burnett and family, 554 call of shares, 42, 117, 618; and market Burnett, William (Booral, Sydney): for coal in the Colony, 283; and missing account of, 135; and allowance for son articles, 216; and missing razors, 593, as clerk of Port Stephens Savings Bank, 598; and newspaper accounts, 12a, 15, 509; arrival on William with family, E; 258, 342; and newspapers, 184, 258, and bill at Cummins’ Hotel, 5; and claim 283, 533, 537, 567, 598; and non-arrival re diseased rams, 322; and departure for of goods, 370; and non-arrival of group England with family, 505; and Richard of ten assigned convicts, 514, 517; and Dodd, 201; and employment matters, notice of appointment of Sir William 90; and establishment of Savings Bank Edward Parry as Commissioner, D; at Port Stephens, 247; and expenses packet for, 297; and patterns of wheels, incurred in pruning fruit trees, 506; 548; and payment for seed wheat, 422; and handover to Henry Hall and John and payment of debt of T. Nowlan, 184; Swayne, 497; move to Booral, 181; and and plan of engine house to be erected payment of passage to England of with at Newcastle, 308; and Port Stephens family, 510, 511; and purchase of seed Savings Bank, 568, 576; and price of wheat, 359; and purchase of wheat, 353; shares in Bank of New South Wales, 568; and request for explanation re William proprietor of stock in A. A. Company, Barton, 504; salary and allowances, 204a, 618; and purchase of flour, 354; 497; termination of employment, 494; and purchase of Newcastle Inn, 271; and transport of from Port Stephens on purchase of wheat, 354; and regulations Lambton with family, 497; transport for making purchases for Company, 6; of to Port Stephens on Lambton with and requisitions, 23, 42, 57, 68, 77, 79, family, E, 3 87, 96, 117, 135, 149, 159, 173, 184, 198, Burrell: convicts on, 400, 427 214, 225, 258, 283, 294, 302, 319, 370, 384, 402, 422, 428, 433, 437, 453, 460, Burton, Isaac (convict): machine-breaker, 523, 533, 537, 544, 548, 556, 558, 565, 450 568, 588, 593, 598, 629, 632; and rock Busby, Mr: and provision of convict salt, 593, 598, 608; and sample of shoes, coalminers to A. A. Company, 501, 579 558, 565; and shipment of flour, 556; bushranger, 551 and shipment of wheat, 183, 184, 225, Bussorah Merchant: convicts on, 303 258, 283, 302, 319, 517; and shipment of wool, 20, 269, 533, 534, 544, 548, 550; and steam engines, 65, 173; and Calcutta: market for export of coal to, 105 supplies for John Henderson, Coal call of shares see under shares in A. A. Works, Newcastle, 162, 188, 203, 216, Company 248, 271, 294, 310, 330, 382; and Sydney Cambridge: convicts on, 606 Almanack, 548; and Sydney Gazettes, page 428 Index
Camden see Macarthur, James (Camden, (Carrington); Wetherman, William Parramatta) (Carrington) Cameron, Miss: and impounded horse, Carter, Thomas (convict): assignment of, 230, 234 389 Campbell, D. (Port Stephens): and passage carters: assignment of, 273 of sheep and cattle through Company castings: iron, 548, 587, 593; of model estate, 101 of parts of threshing machines, 220; Campbell, John Thomas, late see patterns for, 556, 576; of pinion wheel, executors of late John Thomas Campbell 523; unfit, 23; of wheels for threshing (Sydney) machines, 225 Campbell, Patrick (Maitland): and sale of Castleton, William (convict): assignment seed wheat, 367, 383 of, 389 Campbell, R. (Sydney): and payment for Caswell, Lieutenant, 211 wheat from, 421; and purchase of wheat cattle: delivery of, 379, 520; exchange from, 353; and reservation of wheat, 348 of rams for, 232; payment for sale of, Campbell, Robert (Sydney): proprietor of 452; purchase of from Government, 386; stock in A. A. Company, 204a, 618 sale of, 459, 480, 498, 500, 594; sale of Campbell & Co. (Sydney), 133 impounded, 208, 334, 586a; shows, 147; tender for supply of, 350, 357, 363; see Campbell Town see Hawdon, John also Superintendent of Horses and Cattle (Elderslie, Campbell Town); Howe, William (Glenlee, Campbell Town) Cattle Department, 499a Captain Cook: convicts on, 607 Catton, James (convict): non-arrival of, 273 carpenters, 85; application for assignment of, 19a, 67, 199, 293, 389, 448, 567, 636; cemetery: alienation of Company land for, assignment of, 273, 279 156, 210, 540; selection of land for, 167 Carrabean: property/baggage of Sir chart: of passages through Barrier Reef, Edward Parry on, E 177 Carrington: church services at, 167; Chief Justice (Sydney): and stud service, school at, 167; selling spirits at, 28; 394 see also Adams, John (Carrington); church: alienation of Company land for, Beal, Charles (Carrington); Cowell, 156, 210, 540; selection of land for, 167 William (Carrington); Donelan, J. W. church establishment: provision of by (Carrington, Port Stephens); Ebsworth, Colonial Government, 60 James Edward (Company Accountant church services: at Booral, 167 — Carrington, Port Stephens); Edwards, William (Carrington); Jones, William circulars, 3a (Carrington); McKenna, Michael Clark, John (George Street, Sydney): (Carrington); Manson, Alexander and desired employment with A. A. S. (school master — Carrington); Company, 9 Moffatt, Captain R. G. (Carrington); Clergy and School Reserve adjoining Olive, Charles (Brickfield, Carrington); Company estate: lease of, 344a; proposal Pickering, William (Carrington); regarding, 397; survey of, 240 Sawkins, Mr (Carrington); Stacy, J. E. (Company Surgeon — Carrington, clergyman: appointment of, 167, 343; Port Stephens); Stubbs, Richard selection of land for house of, 167 (George Street, Sydney, Carrington — clerks: application for assignment of, 19a, storekeeper of free store); Tulk, Thomas 158, 199, 206, 418, 445; assignment of,
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273; William Barton and, 110; convict, and conditions for supply of coal to 113; employment of, 212, 223 Colonial Government, 487; matters Close, Edward C. (Hunter’s River): relating to, 175, 389; organisation of, proprietor of stock in A. A. Company, 123; Regulations to be observed at the 204a, 619 Coal-Wharf, 479, 505a, 534a; water frontage for, 93, 120, 161, 270, 347a, clothing, shoes, blankets, etc.: for 499, 564, 597; see also Henderson, John assigned convicts, 94, 188, 217, 593, (Manager, Coal Works, Newcastle) 598, 608; for Coal Works, Newcastle, 203, 248, 271, 294; for convict miners, coalminers: application for assignment of, 188; deficiency in shipment of, 218, 225, 189, 501, 530, 579; arrival of assigned 336; sample of shoes, 558, 565 convicts, 597; clothing and blankets for, 188; complaint about those working for coal: account for coal supplied Government, 202; lodging and rations to Government, 283, 627, 628; for, 202; transfer of to A. A. Company, announcement of commencement of 440 sale of to general public, 484, 505a, 534a; boring for at Newcastle, 76, Cockburn Sound: impression of survey 120, 189; conditions for supply of of, 305 to Colonial Government, 487, 578; Cogan, John: claim of against A. A. and information on production of by Company, 92 Colonial Government from 1827 to Cohen, Daniel (convict): exchange of, 380, 1831, 502, 508; and information on 400, 427; transfer of service of, 318 production of by Colonial Government Collett, Stephen: request to be in 1827–28, 508; market for, for steam discharged, 347 engines, 98, 99, 100, 132; market for export of to Calcutta, 105; market for colliers: tobacco for, 162 export of to Mauritius, 76, 192; market colliery apparatus, 175 for in the Colony, 283; price of see under Colonial Committee of Management of prices; sample of for export to India, A. A. Company: account of, 68, 611; 187; supply of to Sydney, 536; transport arrival of Sir Edward Parry, A; and of to Hobart Town, 225, 309 breeding stock on Company estate, E; coal barge: purchase of, 489b and claim by William Wetherman, 529; Coal Department: stationery for, 175 and financial matters, 51, 56, 61, 148, 170, 171, 258, 406; package for, 173; and coal grant at Newcastle: conditions of, 93; position of office-messenger, 107a; and proposals re, 347a; selection of, 120, 189 premises in Macquarie Place, Sydney, Coal Works, Government, Newcastle: 71; and regulation that 25 convicts handover of to A. A. Company, 93, 120, from every convict ship be assigned 168, 175, 189, 192, 202, 270, 440, 489, to A. A. Company, 213; and salary of 499; and information on production of surgeon, 59; see also Bowman, James coal by Colonial Government in 1827– (Woolloomooloo, Sydney); McArthur, 28, 508; information on production of H. H. (Parramatta, Sydney); Macarthur, coal from 1827 to 1831, 502, 508 James Coal Works, Newcastle: accounts of, 123; Colonial Government: accounts for and announcement of commencement supplies of coal to, 283, 627, 628; of selling coal to general public, 484, accounts for supplies to, 26, 95, 505a, 534a; article in Sydney Monitor on 115, 324, 423, 575, 577; and church operations of, 630; and commencement establishment, 60; conditions for supply of selling coal to general public, 489; of coal to, 487; and further grant
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of land to A. A. Company, 621; and Corlette, Captain James (Lambton), 205; medical services to assigned convicts in and George Bunn and deficiency in service of A. A. Company, 59, 60; and shipment of goods, 428; and delivery permission to bore for coal at Newcastle, of goods from warehouse to Lambton, 97, 120; price of coal for supply to, 276; and delivery of parcels of files, 593; 496; see also Coal Works, Government, and despatches, 159; and exchange of Newcastle; military guard at Port assigned convicts, 380; and forwarding Stephens; police of letters, 277; and return of cheques Colonial Secretary, Sydney see McLeay, from Bank of Australia, 454; and Alexander (Colonial Secretary, Sydney) shipment of bricks, 23 Commissioner of A. A. Company: corn: steel mills for grinding, 5 appointment of Sir William Edward Cottar, William (convict), 599, 600 Parry as, A, D Countess of Harcourt: convicts on, 273 Commissioner of the Court of Requests Court of Directors of A. A. Company, see Therry, Roger (Commissioner of the 53, 63, 102, 156, 240; allowances in Court of Requests, Sydney) servants, produce or money, 107, Committee for management of Port 107a; and William Barton, 259, 280; Stephens Savings Bank, 247; and and Mr Dawson’s account, 61; and account with Bank of Australia, 492; death of horse ‘Herald’, 62; and and investment, 492; and letter for Letter of Attorney granted to James George Bunn, 576; see also Port Stephens Norton, 150; and letters of attorney Savings Bank authorising alienation of Company Committee of Accounts, 61, 62, 447; see land for cemetery and church, 540; and also Committee of Officers [of A. A. premises in Macquarie Place, Sydney, Company] at Port Stephens 61, 71; request for increase in salary by J. E. Stacy, 59; and superintendence Committee of Management of A. A. of Company’s accounts, 469; see also Company see Colonial Committee of Governors and Directors of A. A. Management of A. A. Company Company Committee of Officers [of A. A. Company] Cowell, William (Carrington): and at Port Stephens: formation of, 56, allowances and request for increase in 62, 442, 446; see also Committee of salary, 186 Accounts Cowper, Thomas: and stud service, 244 Connolly, Michael (convict): and assigned servants of A. A. Company subpoened cows: return of, 5 in case of, 566a Cox, Mr (Maitland): and exchange of contracts: enforcement of, 58 assigned convicts, 580 convicts: assigned see assigned convicts Cox, Joseph (convict): subpoened in case of Michael Connolly, 566a Coombs (employee of George Oliver): transfer of employment of to A. A. Cox, William (Newcastle): and payment to Company, 594 Mr Hexham, 250 Cooper, Charles: and payment of account, Craigievar, 302, 319, 359, 370, 402 568 Croasdill, Mrs: passage of on Vibelia, 69 Cooper, Robert (Sydney): and market for Croasdill, William, 120; and accounts coal for steam engines, 98 of Coal Works, 402; and agreement of Cooper, Thomas (convict): exchange of, Adams, John, 212; complaints by, 254; 604 draft from, 561; draft in favour of,
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532; and free store at Port Stephens, Davies, William Owen (Parramatta): 3a; and passage of his sister-in-law on request for employment, 163 Vibelia, 69; and sale of seed wheat, 383; Dawson, R.: and account of Colonial successor to, 110 Committee of Management, 611; Crocodile, 4 accounts of, 56, 61, 62; and draft in crops grown on Company estate, 27b favour of Thomas Newton, 612 Crosbie, Parish of, 344a, 397 Dean, Isaac (convict): assignment of, 389 Cummings’ Hotel, Sydney: William Dean, Mrs: and identification of David Burnett and bill at, 5 Gorbett, 235 currier’s knife stone: unfit, 23 deaths: of assigned convicts, 85, 165, 346, 439, 485, 590, 591; of horses, 62; of Czar, 402, 428 King George IV, 350a; see also accidental deaths dairy, 5 debts to A. A. Company, 182, 183, 184, Dales, James (convict): assignment of, 389 221, 351, 352, 359, 430, 470, 471, 472; Dangar, Henry (Port Stephens): see also accounts payable to A. A. accommodation for, 181; and application Company for additional land, 102; and Company Department of Accounts, 456 dray, 553; and establishment of Savings Department of Manufactures (and of Bank at Port Stephens, 247; and friends’ Works): accounts, 109, 124, 125, 126, horses, 286, 289, 290a; and horse 127, 129 ‘Grampus’, 66, 77; and map of proposed Deputy Commissary General see Laidley, further grant of land to A. A. Company, James (Deputy Commissary General, 621; Alexander Nisbet and, 66, 68, 77; Sydney) and survey of land north of Manning th River, 66, 112, 181; and surveys of Despard, Colonel (commanding H. M. 17 Company estate, 344a, 553 Regiment, Parramatta): and drunken soldiers, 344 Darch, Henry (Sydney), 125; and shipping of wool to England, 283, 295, Devine, Edward (convict): alteration 296 of tickets of leave to District of Port Stephens, 609; alteration of tickets of Darcy, John (convict), 217 leave to Windsor, 634 Darling, Lieutenant General Ralph Dimmotte, Daniel (convict): admission to (Governor of N. S. W.): alienation General Hospital, Sydney, 466 of Company land for cemetery and church, 210; and further grant of land Director of Public Works: and reasonable to A. A. Company, 621; and request quantity of work to be required from for assignment of convicts convicted assigned convicts, 130 of rioting and breaking machines, 450; District Constable: Company allowances thanks and good wishes on departure for, 390; payment of, 272; retention of of, 503 convict servant by, 410; see also Field, Dauncey, Thomas (convict): non-arrival John of, 273, 303 Dividing Range: and boundary of land Davidson, John (convict): assignment of, left open for examination, 152 389 Dixon, John (Sydney): and market for Davies, Edward (H. M. Ship Crocodile): coal for steam engines, 100 services of, 4 Dodd, Richard, 201
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dog-cart, 194 Eales, John (Hunter’s River): and delivery Donelan, J. W. (Carrington, Port of maize, 249, 287; and delivery of Stephens): and account for cost of wheat, 325; and price of rams, 331 convict wrongly sent to Port Stephens Eamont, 453 on Company estate, 40; and assignment Earl Spencer: convicts on, 389 of convicts to Henry Blackford, 358a; Earl St Vincent: convicts on, 153, 545, 580 and William Barton and Company accounts, 151; and breeding stock on Earp, William (convict): death of, 590; Company estate, E, 2; and conviction exchange of, 400, 427 of Patrick Sheridan for robbery, 329; Ebsworth: Mr Burnett and family and expenses of constable, 282a; and transported on, 497 Government Constable at Stroud, 195; Ebsworth, James Edward (Company and inquiry into complaints against Accountant — Carrington, Port Company servants, 80; and payment of Stephens): and account of Colonial District Constables, 272; and regulations Committee of Management, 611; and for freight and passage on Lambton, 27; account of George Bunn, 608; and and sale of impounded cattle, 334; and claim of George Bunn against the A. stationing of additional military guard A. Company, 1; and complaint about at Stroud, 157; and tobacco growing, conduct of William Wetherman towards 27a servant of Captain R. G. Moffatt, 525, Douglas/Douglass, Henry (George Street, 526; and convict William Cottar, 599, Sydney): and accounts for rams sold, 600; and delivery of goods, 3b; and 331, 428, 433; and advertisements for drafts in favour of R. Woodley and G. sale of rams, 185; and Nichol Allan, 434; Hadell, 612; and financial matters, 3b, and cattle shows, 147; and financial 21, 68; and free store at Port Stephens, matters, 301; and payment of debt of T. 3a; instructions from Sir Edward Parry, Nowlan, 182, 183, 184; and sale of rams, 5; instructions from Sir Edward Parry 169, 209, 212; and wool samples, 179 on his arrival, E; and issue of magistrate Dowse, Jonathon (convict): admission to giving permission for entry without General Hospital, Sydney, 111; return legal warrant onto Company estate, from hospital, 191 610; legality of his sitting on bench in matters relating to Company servants, drinking: assigned convicts entering 556b, 582; magistrate, 556b, 582; and homes of indentured servants for the newspaper accounts, 15; notification purpose of, 236; see also spirits of Bank of Australia of appointment drowning, 591 of as Company Accountant, 557; and drunkenness: on cattle station, 391; of rock salt, 608; and superintendence of soldiers of 17th Regiment, 344 Company’s accounts, 469 Dryad, 349; and shipping of wool to Ebsworth, Thomas Lindsey: and accounts England, 339 of Department of Manufactures, 124, Dunvegan Castle, 159 126, 129; and William Barton, 124, 126, 127; and William Barton and Company’s Durham bulls: sale of, 224 accounts, 151; and convict clerk, 113 Dutton, W. H. (Raby, Sydney): and Eddles, Richard (convict): non-arrival of, offer of sale of Saxon sheep to A. A. 273 Company, 53, 122; and payment for engaging German shepherds, 473 editor, Sydney Monitor see Hall, E. S. (editor, Sydney Monitor) Dwyer, James (Sydney): and position of Superintendent of Horses and Cattle, 34 editor, The Australian see Hayes, A. E. (editor, The Australian, Sydney)
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Edward: convicts on, 566a Fame: convicts on, 389, 426 Edwards, William (Carrington): request to Farley, Henry (convict): admission to be discharged, 86, 464 General Hospital, Sydney, 257 Edwards, William (convict): ticket of Farrell, William (convict): assault of, 371, leave for, 623 374 Elder, William (convict): apprehension Faulkland, Parish of, 344a, 397 of, 551 Fergusson: convicts on, 514 Eliza: convicts on, 111, 257, 389, 465, Field, John: and convicts assigned to 514; wool transported on, 91 A. A. Company, 541; and group of ten Elizabeth, 77, 81; Company property, convicts assigned to A. A. Company, 542 including horse ‘Grampus’, transported (see also District Constable) on, 68; horse ‘Grampus’ transported on, files, 593 77 financial matters, 1, 3, 3b, 5, 21, 23, 42, Ellen: wheat transported on, 524 46, 51, 56, 57, 61, 62, 68, 79, 96, 117, emigration of free agricultural labourers, 135, 136, 159, 170, 171, 173, 184, 193, 467 197, 198, 214, 218, 225, 241, 243, 283, employment by A. A. Company: 301, 302, 319, 330, 336, 359, 384, 402, continuation of, 323, 412; of free 428, 433, 437, 455, 460, 517, 523, 533, immigrant agricultural labourers, 467; 537, 544, 548, 555, 558, 568, 571, 576, matters relating to, 88, 90; proposed, 9; 587, 593, 608, 622, 632; see also under request for, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, Bank of Australia; Colonial Committee of 19, 75, 96a, 163, 164, 168, 223, 313, 442, Management of A. A. Company; McVitie 447, 456, 458, 468, 515, 617; request to [Macvitie], Thomas (Managing Director be discharged from, 86, 104, 106, 138, of Bank of Australia, Sydney) 145, 267, 298, 332, 337, 347, 355, 464, Fitzpatrick, Richard (convict): non-arrival 513, 572; termination of, 378, 419, 494; of, 273 terms of re William Barton, 259; terms Fitzroy, Parish of, 344a, 397 of re-engagement of labourer, 625; terms flagellator: claims by Alexander Green for of re-engagement of mason and general services as, 48 labourer, 626; see also allowances in servants, produce or money; gratuities; Flanagan, Thomas (convict): claim by, hours of labour; wages and salaries 314; escape of, 589; non-arrival of, 273 engine house to be erected at Newcastle: flax-dressing, 586 plan and conditions to be met, 308 Fletcher, Mark (convict), 297; non- executors of late John Thomas Campbell appearance of, 189, 279 (Sydney): proprietor of stock in A. A. Florentia: convicts on, 606, 633 Company, 204a, 618 flour: account for, 135, 140; complaints executors of late Robert Howe: payment about quality of, 543; deficiency in to, 402 supply of, 319; fine, 524; firsts, 372, 399; executors of late John Ovens (Sydney): non-receipt of, 198; offer of sale of, 333; proprietor of stock in A. A. Company, quality of delivered, 372, 596; seconds, 618 68, 117, 135, 302, 524, 550, 558; supply of, 399, 583; tender for supply of to executors of late John Oxley: account military detachment at Port Stephens, payable to A. A. Company, 243 535; transported on Lambton, 57, 184, Exmouth: convicts on, 501 359, 556; wheat to be ground into see under wheat; see also bags for flour; maize meal page 434 Index
flour mill: four-horse, 27c Girard, Mr: and grinding of wheat, 258 Forbes, David Grant (Sydney): proprietor Goderich, Viscount (Secretary of State for of stock in A. A. Company, 204a, 618 the Colonies): and public provision of Forbes, T. W. (Sydney): proprietor of police on Company estate, 582 stock in A. A. Company, 618 Goodfellow, Thomas (convict): machine- Forth: convicts on, 566a; mail on, 340; breaker, 450 shipping of wool to England on, 295, Goodluck, Charles: account of, 402 296, 306, 327, 338 Goodwin, James (convict): admission to Foss, Mr: and supply of medicines, 55 General Hospital, Sydney, 78; return Foster, Thomas (convict): assignment of, from General Hospital, Sydney, 134 375 Gorbett, David: identification of, 235 Foxall, Frederick George (Castlereagh Gorton (groom of ‘Grampus’): gratuity Street, Sydney): request for for, 77 employment, 456 Goulburn Plains: further selection of fraud: attempted, 598 land, 344a Free, Mr: and group of ten convicts Governor of New South Wales see assigned to A. A. Company, 546 Darling, Lieutenant General Ralph free licence for house: application for, 521 Governors and Directors of A. A. free settlers: assignment of convicts Company: and Australian Almanack, to, 448, 449; rights of to take flocks 576; despatches and letters to, 3, through Company estate, 52 96, 327; and establishment of salt works at Newcastle, 528; financial free store at Port Stephens, 3a, 7, 8; matters, 328, 463; and payment see also storekeeper (free store at of instalments on shares, 39; and Port Stephens); Stubbs, Richard payment to W. H. Dutton, 473; and (George Street, Sydney, Carrington position of Superintendent of Horses — storekeeper of free store) and Cattle, 31; and shipment of wool, French sheep: sale of, 169, 185; wool 20, 79; and Superintendent of Coal samples from, 179 Works, Newcastle, 93; see also Court of Futter, Robert (Lumley, Argyle): and Directors of A. A. Company payment for seed wheat, 422; payment Graham, George T. (Sydney): request for to, 402; purchase of wheat, 354 employment, 442 Graham, Mr, 297 Garaham, John (convict): non-arrival of, Graham, Mr (at Kinross), 232 273 Graham, Mr (cattle owner): inspection of garden seeds, 5 cattle for sale, 594 gardener’s boys: assignment of, 273 grants of land to A. A. Company: Gazette see Sydney Gazette arrangements relating to lands granted General Hospital, Sydney: admission to or leased by Company, including of assigned convicts to, 78, 111, 200, further selection of land, 344a; further, 215, 257, 403, 426, 466, 631; see also 605, 621; see also coal grant at Newcastle Mitchell, Dr James (General Hospital, grass seed, 602–603 Sydney) gratuities, 77, 89, 90 German shepherds, 473 Green, Alexander (constable — Hyde Gillander & Co. (Calcutta): and market for Park Barracks, Sydney): and claims for export of coal and horses to India, 105 service as flagellator, 48
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Green, Robert: and sale of wheat, 366 Halloran, Revd Dr: and employment for Gregson’s Mercantile Prices Current and schooling and religious instruction, 164 Advertizer, 57, 173 Hames (convict): bushranger, 551 Griffin, Daniel (convict): and ticket of Hames, Robert (convict): and petition for leave, 465 mitigation of sentence, 477 grooms: assignment of, 273 Harding, Benjamin (convict): machine- Guilding, Mr: and impounded cattle, 208 breaker, 450 Guilford: convicts on, 78, 389, 514, 566a Hardy, Robert, 411 guns: of Lambton, 547 Harington, Mr: and price of coal to be delivered to Hobart Town, 228, 309 Gwenlock, Christopher (convict): assignment of, 389 Harris, James B.: Isaac Perrett and, 47 harvest: loan of convicts from Maitland for, 251 Hadell, G.: draft in favour of, 612 Hawdon, John (Elderslie, Campbell Hadlow: convicts on, 273, 314, 317, 589 Town): and grass seed, 602 Hall, Charles (Stroud): and account hay, 77 sales of wool, 82; and accusation of dishonesty against William Barton, Hay, Mr (Under Secretary of State for 274/275, 285; and continuation of the Colonial Department): and water employment, 323, 412; and decrease in frontage for Coal Works at Newcastle, numbers of sheep, 527; and employment 499 matters, 89; and free store at Port Hayes, A. E. (editor, The Australian, Stephens, 3a; and French and Saxon Sydney): account of The Australian, 265 rams, 179; and sale of rams, 205, 209, Healy, Thomas (convict): subpoened in 212 case of Michael Connolly, 566a Hall, E. S. (editor, Sydney Monitor): Heard, Captain (Dryad): and shipping of account of Sydney Monitor, 266, 457; wool to England, 339 and advertisements in Sydney Monitor, Hely, Frederick A. (Sydney): and A. 45; and operations at Coal Works, A. Company’s obligations in regard Newcastle, 630 to escaped convict Michael Wallace, Hall, Henry (George Street, Sydney 601; and application for assignment of — Company Superintendent of Horses/ convicts, 19a, 67; and convict George Stud and Cattle): and conditions of Jones, 312; and group of ten convicts employment as Superintendent of assigned to A. A. Company, 517, 546; Horses and Cattle, 31; and Henry proprietor of stock in A. A. Company, Dangar’s friend’s horse, 290a; and 204a, 618; and records of convicts exchange of cattle for rams, 232; and assigned to A. A. Company, 24, 40 handover to from William Burnett, 497; Hely, Thomas (convict): and horseshoe and inconvenience to Lawrence Myles, nails, 565 518; and inspection of cattle, 379; and medical matters, 59; and overseer for Henderson, John (59 George St, Sydney): Cattle Department, 499a; and position and offer of supply of medicines, 55 of Superintendent of Horses and Cattle, Henderson, John (Manager, Coal Works, 32, 33; and purchase of cattle, 480; Newcastle): and accounts of Coal and purchase of Government stock, Works, 402; and allowances, 261; and 386; request for employment, 19; and assigned convicts for Coal Works, 217; sending of mares to Helenus Scott, 481 and boring for coal at Newcastle, 97, 120, 189; and clothing for assigned page 436 Index
convicts, 622; and Coal Works accounts, Superintendent of Horses and Cattle, 35; 123; employment and residences for request for employment, 13 and his men, 77; and establishment of Hook, Mr: and Newcastle Inn, 271 Coal Works, 123; and financial matters, Horse and Cattle Department see 532; and letters to proprietors of stock Superintendent of Horses and Cattle in A. A. Company in respect of call of shares, 619; and missing articles, horse-shoers: application for assignment 216; Alexander Nisbet and, 65, 68; of, 199, 448; assignment of, 279 and parcel for George Bunn, 241, horses: death of ‘Herald’, 62; ‘Grampus’, 242; and payment for wheat from R. 66, 68, 77, 208, 574; impounded, 208, Campbell, 421; proprietor of stock in 230, 234; market for export of to India, A. A. Company, 204a, 619; report, 175, 105; permission to keep geldings on 180; and sample of coal for export to Company estate, 539; purchase of from India, 187; and specimens of vegetable Government, 386; sending of mares to impressions found in coal mines, 255; Helenus Scott, 481; stud service, 244, and steam engines, 175, 184; supplies 245, 246, 394, 401, 429, 574; used by for, 121, 162, 188, 203, 216, 248, 271, William Barton, 280; see also Produce 294, 310, 330, 382; and survey of Sweepstakes; Superintendent of Horses steam engines, 65, 68; and tenders for and Cattle supplies, 377; and tenders for supply of horseshoe nails, 565, 576 rations at Newcastle, 624a; and tobacco for assigned convicts, 229 Horton, Parish of, 344a see Henderson, Mr (Roslin, William’s River): hospitals General Hospital, Sydney; offer of sale of bullocks, 360 Newcastle Hospital Hercules: convicts on, 466 Hough (late Smith), H.: and casting of wheels for threshing machines, 225 Hexham, Mr: payment to, 250 hours of labour, 204, 239 hides, 401, 534, 558; see also bullock hides Hovell, W. H. (Sydney): and position of storekeeper of free store at Port Hill, John (convict): admission to General Stephens, 30, 49 Hospital, Sydney, 403; and return of principal of his savings, 284 Howe, R.: payment to, 428 see Hill, Patrick (Liverpool, Sydney): Howe, Robert, late executors of late proprietor of stock in A. A. Company, Robert Howe 204a, 618 Howe, William (Glenlee, Campbell Town): Hill, Revd Richard (Sydney): proprietor and grass seed, 603 of stock in A. A. Company, 204a, 618 Hubberfield, James or Joseph (convict): Hillier, Mr, 367 alteration of tickets of leave to District of Port Stephens, 606 Hindson, William (Sydney): proprietor of Hudlow stock in A. A. Company, 204a : convicts on, 24, 40 Hobart Town: price of coal to be Hudson, John (convict): escape of, 592 transported to, 228, 309; transport of Hunt, William (convict): alteration coal to, 225 of tickets of leave to District of Port Hogan, Corporal, 344 Stephens, 606 see Holt, William (convict): exchange of, 607 Hunter’s River Close, Edward C. (Hunter’s River); Eales, John (Hunter’s Hood, Archibald (Jacob Newton’s, River); Nowlan, T. (Hunter’s River); William’s River): and position of Ogilvie, William (Merton, Hunter’s
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River); Oliver, George (Hunter’s River); iron casting, 548 Peppercorne, W. H. (Hunter’s River); irons/shackles: return/replacement of, Platt, J. L. (Hunter’s River); Scott, 362 Helenus (Glendon, Hunter’s River); Ivey, Daniel: robbery of, 329; terms of re- Scott, Robert (Glendon, Hunter’s River); engagement of, 626 Singleton, Benjamin (Hunter’s River, William’s River); Sparke, William (Hunter’s River); Webber, James P. Jackson, Peter (Clarence Street, Sydney): (Patrick’s Plains, Hunter’s River) and Thomas Breeze, 595 Huxham, Mr: and Newcastle Inn, 271 Jenkin, Mr: and account sales of wool, 82; and accusation of dishonesty against William Barton, 274/275, 285; and Icely, Thomas (Sydney): proprietor of passage of sheep through Company stock in A. A. Company, 204a estate, 101 immigration see emigration of free John: convicts on, 111, 191, 284, 403 agricultural labourers Johnson, Giles: request for gratuity, 89 impounded cattle and horses: sale of, 208 Johnson, John: request for gratuity for impounded horses and cattle, 208, 230, his son, 89 234, 334, 586a joiners: application for assignment of, 19a indentured servants: assigned convicts entering indentured their homes Jones, George (convict), 312; return of for the purpose of drinking, 236; after punishment, 405; subpoena re, 475 discharge from indenture, 64; expiry Jones, Richard (Hunter Street, Sydney): of agreements of, 567; expiry of and appointment of clergyman on agreements with and need for more Company estate, 343 assigned convicts, 636; obligation Jones, Thomas: and application for free to pay before, during and/or after licence for house, 521; request for imprisonment, 262; obligation to increase in salary, 90 provide with rations for wife and children after they have left, 262; rights Jones, William (Carrington): terms of re- of wives of to refuse to do washing, 58 engagement of, 625 see India: market for export of horses to, 105; Justices of the Peace Anly, Captain sample of coal for export to, 187 (Superintendent of Police, Maitland); Bunn, George (merchant and Company’s indoor servants: assignment of, 273 agent — George Street, Sydney); Innes, Major A. C. (Port Macquarie, Donelan, J. W. (Carrington, Port Sydney): debt of, 351, 352, 430, 470, Stephens); Ebsworth, James Edward 471, 472; and payment for stud service, (Company Accountant — Carrington, 429, 430 Port Stephens); Hawdon, John inquests: claim by J. E. Stacy relating to, (Elderslie, Campbell Town); Howe, 436 William (Glenlee, Campbell Town); Innes, Major A. C. (Port Macquarie, insanity, 466, 566 Sydney); Moffatt, Captain R. G. Integrity: hides transported on, 558; wool (Carrington); Ogilvie, William (Merton, transported on, 534, 544 Hunter’s River); Parry, Sir Edward investment of money for Savings Bank at Port Stephens, 345 Karuah, Parish of, 344a iron: account for, 135, 140 Katherine Stewart Forbes, 117; wool transported on, 79 page 438 Index
Keith, Edward Joshua (Sydney): and Lambton, 5, 6; and acquisition of some claim of John Cogan, 92 of the guns of, 547; assigned convicts Kelly, John (convict): non-arrival of, 273 transported on, 23; bags for flour transported on, 3b; boots transported kelp: from mangroves for manufacture of on, 184; bricks transported on, 23; Mr soap, 569–570 Burnett and family transported on, E, 3, Kemp, Charles: and hours of labour, 204 497; currency transported on, 68; delay Kemp, Simon (Stroud): employment of, to, 420; delayed by bad weather, 87; and 382; and hours of labour, 204; request to delivery of goods from warehouse to, be discharged, 298 276; flour transported on, 68, 135, 184, Kentish, Mr: and convicts assigned to 359, 556; invoices of goods transported A. A. Company, 541; and group of ten on, 5; iron transported on, 135; convicts assigned to A. A. Company, 542 regulations for freight and passage on, 23 see under regulations; repair to keel, 239; seed wheat transported on, 428; labour see scale of labour spirits on, 27; wheat transported on, 68, labourers: application for assignment of, 79, 183, 214, 225, 258, 283, 302, 319; 67, 389; assignment of, 273; terms of re- wool transported on, E, 3, 20, 533, 534 engagement of, 625, 626 Landragan, Michael (convict): assignment Lacey, John (convict): non-arrival of, 514 of, 389 Lady Faversham: convicts on, 257 Larkins: convicts on, 74 Lady Rowena, 198; shipment of clothing Lazarus, Henry (George Street, Sydney): on, 218, 225 and transfer of convict to service of, 318 Laidley, James (Deputy Commissary Leach, Emmanuel (convict): admission to General, Sydney): and account for General Hospital, Sydney, 426 rations for men lent to A. A. Company Learmonth, John (King Street, Sydney): at Newcastle, 324; and account for and position of storekeeper of free store supplies of coal to Colonial Government, at Port Stephens, 29 627, 628; and account for supplies to Lehmann\Leman, Frederick: and request Colonial Government, 26, 95, 115, 324, for house, rations etc. for intended wife, 423, 575, 577; and conditions for supply 356; marriage of, 381, 393; request to be of coal to Colonial Government, 487; discharged, 513 and information on contract prices for supplying military with rations, 519; Leonard, James (convict): admission to and information on production of coal General Hospital, Sydney, 257 by Colonial Government from 1827 to Letters of Attorney: authorising 1831, 502, 508; and tender for supply of alienation of Company land for cemetery flour and meat to military detachment and church, 156, 540; authorising at Port Stephens, 535; and victualling of demise of Company land, 414; granted troops, 300 to James Norton, 150 Laman, Thomas: and house and other Levey, B.: and sale of mill to A. A. Company property in possession of Company, 54 Simon Kemp, 298 Lilly, William: as office-messenger, 107a Lamb, Buchanan & Co. (Sydney), 87; limestone: supply of, 536 account, 315; bags belonging to, 576; Lithgow, Mr see executors of late John and bags of bread and cask of beef, 307 Ovens (Sydney) lambs: increase in numbers of, 516, 536
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Liverpool see Blackett, George McCarthy, Charles (convict): non-arrival (Collingwood, Liverpool); Hill, Patrick of, 514 (Liverpool, Sydney) McCarty, Denis (convict): non-arrival of, Liverpool see Lord Liverpool 514 Liverpool Plains: further selection of McCune, John (convict): assignment of, land, 344a; Sir Edward Parry’s visit to, 522 594; position of Superintendent of any McDavid, Bernard (convict): non-arrival establishment near, 507 of, 514 Longford, William (Sydney): and McGuire, Robert (convict): retention of complaints about quality of flour, 543; services of, 316 and unauthorised use of Company flour Machan, D. (Bathampton, Bathurst) see bags, 537, 538 Maclean, D. (Bathampton, Bathurst) Lord, Edward W. (Sydney): and exchange machine-breakers, 450 of assigned convicts, 604 McIntyre, Peter (Sydney): and sale of Lord, S. (Macquarie Place, Sydney): and tobacco, 23; and stud service, 574 offer of sale of clothing and blankets, 94 McKay, W. H. (Harrington Street, Lord Liverpool, 77, 203, 241, 242, 248; Sydney): request for employment, 458 clothing transported on, 188; loss of, 256, 258; missing articles, 216; tobacco McKenna, Michael (Carrington): transported on, 77 termination of employment of, 419 Lord Melville: convicts on, 273, 604 Mackie & Co.: and kelp or barilla for manufacture of soap, 570 Low, Mr: and claim re diseased rams, 322 McLaren, John (Sydney): and exchange Lucas, Penelope (Parramatta): proprietor of assigned convicts, 586 of stock in A. A. Company, 204a Maclaren, Mr: and payment for seed wheat, 422 McArthur, H. H. (Parramatta, Sydney): Maclean, D. (Bathampton, Bathurst): and and account of, 408; account of as position of Superintendent of Horses member of Colonial Committee of and Cattle, 36; request for employment, Management, 611; and account of 17 George Bunn, 91; bills drawn by, 62; claim re passage of Mrs Croasdill on McLeay, Alexander (Colonial Secretary, Vibelia, 69; and death of horse ‘Herald’, Sydney): and account for coal supplied 62; and financial matters, 1, 21, 51, 56, to Government, 578, 628; and account 62, 171, 406; proprietor of stock in A. for cost of convict wrongly sent to A. Company, 204a; see also Bowman, Port Stephens on Company estate, 40; James (Woolloomooloo, Sydney) and additional military detachment at Port Stephens, 157; and alteration Macarthur, James (Camden, Parramatta): of tickets of leave, 606, 609, 633, 634; account of as member of Colonial and announcement of commencement Committee of Management, 611; and of selling Newcastle coal to general claim by William Wetherman, 529; and public, 484; application for 25 convicts Company accounts, 406; proprietor of from every convict ship to be assigned stock in A. A. Company, 204a, 618 to A. A. Company, 213; application Macarthur, John (Parramatta), 235; for assigned convicts, 212, 293, 389, account of, 407 449, 579; and application for free McCarthey, Florence (convict): admission licence for house, 521; and assigned to General Hospital, Sydney, 111 servants of A. A. Company subpoened
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in case of Michael Connolly, 566a; and police at Port Stephens, 605, 620; and William Barton case, 416; and boring price of coal to be delivered to Hobart for coal at Newcastle, 270; and case Town, 228, 309; and proposal regarding of Richard Poynder returned to A. A. Clergy and School Reserve, 397; and Company after acquittal on grounds proposal to make Port Stephens Savings of insanity, 566; and chart of passages Bank a branch of that at Sydney, 549, through Barrier Reef, 177; and claim 573; and purchase of stock and goods by J. E. Stacy relating to inquests, 436; from Government, 389; and quantity and coal grant at Newcastle, 189; and of work to be expected of assigned commencement of selling Newcastle convicts, 84; and reasonable quantity coal to general public, 489; and of work to be required from assigned complaint about Government convict convicts, 130; and relinquishment miners, 202; and conditions for supply of part of Company estate, 240; and of to Colonial Government, 578; and request for advice on legality of Sir conditions of coal grant at Newcastle, Edward Parry sitting on the bench in 93; and conditions of convict miners, matters relating to Company servants, 202; and convict coalminers, 597; 336a, 556b; and retention of services and conviction of Patrick Sheridan of convict Robert McGuire, 316; and for robbery, 329; and crops grown on shipping of wool to England from Port Company estate, 27b; and dumping Stephens rather than Sydney, 237; and of ballast by ships at Newcastle, 396, stationing of additional military guard 441, 478, 495; and employment of at Stroud, 157; and survey of Clergy free immigrant agricultural labourers, and School Reserve adjoining Company 467; and establishment of salt works estate, 240; and survey of Newcastle, at Newcastle, 528; and estimate of 270; and transfer of Government convict agricultural produce on Company coalminers to A. A. Company, 441; estate, 563; and further grant of land to and water frontage for Coal Works at A. A. Company, 621; and Government Newcastle, 93, 161, 270, 499, 564, 597 Constable at Stroud, 157, 195; and Macleay, Mr: and Major A. C. Innes’ bills, grant of land to Lieutenant John 429, 472 Wood, 155, 157; and impression of McNamara, John (Newcastle): request for survey of Cockburn Sound, 305; and employment, 468 information on production of coal by Colonial Government in 1827–28, 508; Macquarie Place, Sydney: premises in, and legality of James Edward Ebsworth 61, 62, 71, 72 sitting on the bench in matters relating Macquarie River: and boundary of land to Company servants, 556b; and line left open for examination, 152 of road through Company estate, 83; McVitie [Macvitie], Thomas (Managing and loan of Government drays, oxen Director of Bank of Australia, Sydney): and drivers at Newcastle, 489; and loss and account of Colonial Committee of of correspondence on Lord Liverpool, Management, 611, 612; and account of 256; and manufactories on Company Major A. C. Innes with A. A. Company, estate, 40; and notification of robbery 470, 471, 472; and arrangements with at Port Stephens, 172; and objection Bank of Australia, 25, 43, 446; and of Company Surgeon J. E. Stacy to call of shares in A. A. Company, 43, attending convicts not assigned to A. A. 148; notification of appointment of Company, 605; and permission to begin James Edward Ebsworth as Company mining coal at Newcastle, 270; and Accountant, 557; and Port Stephens permission to bore for coal at Newcastle, Savings Bank, 482, 483; proprietor of 97; and plan of Newcastle, 161; and stock in A. A. Company, 204a, 618; and
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transactions between A. A. Company Marsden, Revd S. (Sydney): proprietor of and Bank of Australia, 148, 160, 170, stock in A. A. Company, 618 171, 193, 320, 328, 385, 404, 425, 431, Mary: convicts on, 389 438, 454, 463, 491, 531, 533, 557, 560, masons see stonemasons 561, 585 Mauritius, 196; market for export of coal Maitland: sheep sale at, 209; see also to, 76, 192 Anly, Captain (Superintendent of Police, Maitland); Campbell, Patrick meat see beef; mutton (Maitland); Cox, Mr (Maitland); mechanics: assignment of, 448, 449, 567; Police Magistrate, Maitland; Resident engagement of, 212; see also tradesmen Magistrate, Maitland; Sparke, Edward, such as bricklayers, carpenters, Jnr (Ravensfield, Maitland); Winder, T. stonemasons, etc. W. M. (Windermere, Maitland); Wood, medical matters, 21a, 59, 111; see also Lieutenant John (Maitland) General Hospital, Sydney; Mitchell, maize, 27b, 287, 598; delivery of, 249; Dr James (General Hospital, Sydney); supply of, 398; tender for supply of, Nisbet, Dr Alexander (Port Stephens); 392; unauthorised sale of to Company Stacy, J. E. (Company Surgeon — servants, 335 Carrington, Port Stephens) maize meal, 68; see also flour medicines: offer of supply of, 55 Manager of Coal Works see Henderson, Mellish: convicts on, 389 John (Manager, Coal Works, Newcastle) Mercantile Prices Current and Advertizer Managing Director of Bank of Australia: (Gregson’s ), 57, 173 financial transactions with Bank, Mermaid: convicts on, 134, 154, 389 171, 219, 351, 352, 430, 611; and Port Stephens Savings Bank, 483, 492; mess utensils for assigned convicts, 382 see also Bank of Australia; McVitie Miles, Mr: and unauthorised sale of maize [Macvitie], Thomas (Managing Director to Company servants, 335 of Bank of Australia, Sydney) military guard at Port Stephens, 582; Mangles: convicts on, 85, 257, 273, 316, account for provisions for, 575; 514, 566a additional detachment, 157; Newcastle mangroves: kelp or barilla from for contract prices of provisions for, manufacture of soap, 569–570 26, 157; provisions for, 26, 115; and regulations for freight and passage on Manlius: convicts on, 165, 551 Lambton, 23; and tender for supply of Mansfield, Revd Ralph (editor Sydney flour and meat to, 535; see also troops Gazette): and price of coal, 505b mill: sale of to A. A. Company, 54 Manson, Alexander S. (school master miller: employment as, 166 — Carrington): and giving up charge of school, 559; and passage to Port Milon, John (convict): assignment of, 512 Stephens with wife, 87 mimosa bark: collection of for tanning, 90 manufactories on Company estate, 27c miners see coalminers Manufactures, Department of see Minerva: convicts on, 297, 400, 427, 590 Department of Manufactures Minstrel: convicts on, 389, 633 Marquis of Huntley: convicts on, 389, Mitchell, Francis: account of, 402 514, 566a Mitchell, Dr James (General Hospital, Marquis of Wellington: convicts on, 211 Sydney): and admission of assigned marriage: publication of banns, 381, 393; convicts to General Hospital, Sydney, request for permission, 356 page 442 Index
78, 111, 200, 215, 257, 403, 426, 466, Murdock, James (Van Diemen’s Land): 631 proprietor of stock in A. A. Company, Mitchell, Major Thomas Livingstone 618 (Surveyor-General, Sydney): and loan Murdock, Peter (Van Diemen’s Land): of perambulator to A. A. Company, 112, proprietor of stock in A. A. Company, 152; and plan of Newcastle, 190 618 Moffatt, Captain R. G. (Carrington): and Murphy, Patrick (convict): admission to A. A. Company’s obligations in regard General Hospital, Sydney, 426; non- to escaped convict Michael Wallace, arrival of, 514 601; and assault of William Farrell by Murray, David (Sydney): and information William Barton, 371, 374; and assigned about property, 476 servants of A. A. Company subpoened Murray, Edward (convict): admission to in case of Michael Connolly, 566a; and General Hospital, Sydney, 215 William Barton case, 416; and Company allowances for District Constables, 390; Murray, Sir George, 344a; and further and Company allowances for Principal grant of land to A. A. Company, 621 Constable, 390; complaint about conduct mutton: tender for supply of to military of William Wetherman towards servant detachment at Port Stephens, 535 of, 525, 526; and convict William Myles, Lawrence (William’s River): Cottar, 599, 600; and copy of letter inconvenience to, 518; and sale of rams, for William Barton, 413; and delay to 444 Lambton, 420; and District Constable’s retention of convict servant, 410; and escape of assigned convicts, 589, 592; nails, 359 and objection of Company Surgeon J. E. Nancy: mail on, 340 Stacy to attending convicts not assigned native assigned convict see Devine, to A. A. Company, 605; and permission Edward (convict) to keep geldings on Company estate, 539 Nautical Almanac for 1834, 451 Moniz, C. (Sydney): request for employment, 313 Nereus: steam engines transported on, 198, 203 Montefiore, J. B.: and transaction with Bank of Australia, 463 New South Wales Government Gazette: notice, 624a; share call advertisement, Moore, Mr: and identification of David 614 Gorbett, 235 New Zealander: wool transported on, 319, Moran, Dr: and debt of Mr Phillips, 221, 327 225, 227 Newcastle: boring for coal at, 97, 120; Morisset: and cancellation of ticket of coal grant at see coal grant at Newcastle; leave, 281 engine house to be erected at, 308; Morley: convicts on, 273 mining coal at, 270; plan of, 161, 190; Morrice, Samuel: and sale of tobacco, 23 plans of men’s house at, 382; survey see also Mottram, Peter (convict): assignment of, of, 270; Anley, Ferdinand 389 (Newcastle); Boucher, Frederick (Newcastle); Buchanan, W. (Post Mullins, James (convict): exchange of, Office, Newcastle); Buchanan, William 607 (Newcastle); Coal Works, Government, murder: of James Tongue, 165 Newcastle; Coal Works, Newcastle; Cox, William (Newcastle); Henderson,
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John (Manager, Coal Works, Newcastle); of drinking, 236; and legal measures McNamara, John (Newcastle); Reid, against unauthorised employment James (Newcastle); Resident Magistrate, of assigned convicts by Company Newcastle; salt works, Newcastle; employees, 176; and legality of proposed Smith, John (Newcastle); Sparke, W. Regulations to be observed at the Coal- (Newcastle); Stafford, Mr (Deputy Wharf, Newcastle, 479; and Letter Assistant Commissary General at of Attorney from Court of Directors, Newcastle); water frontage for Coal 150; and obligation to pay indentured Works at Newcastle servant before, during and/or after Newcastle Hospital, 566 imprisonment, 262; and obligation to provide indentured servant rations Newcastle Inn: purchase of, 271 for wife and children after they have Newell, Charles (convict): notification of left, 262; and payment of instalments death of, 85 on shares in A. A. Company, 39, 114, newspapers: accounts, 12a, 15, 68, 184, 118; and Port Stephens Savings Bank’s 258, 265, 266, 302, 342, 358, 361; choice account with Bank of Australia, 483; of for advertisements, 45; not delivered, proprietor of stock in A. A. Company, 184, 258; see also The Australian; New 618; and right of Receiver of Stolen South Wales Government Gazette; Sydney Goods to land on Company land, 52; Gazette; Sydney Herald; Sydney Monitor and rights of free settlers to take flocks Newton, Thomas: draft in favour of, 612 through Company land, 52 Nisbet, Dr Alexander (Port Stephens): Norval: commander of, and sample of and accounts, 120; and accounts relating coal, 187; steam engines transported on, to boring for coal at Newcastle, 120; 184 and accusation of dishonesty against notices, 68, 556a, 586a, 624a William Barton, 274/275; and William Nowlan, T. (Hunter’s River): payment of Barton, 124, 125, 126, 127; and William debt, 182, 183, 184 Barton and Company accounts, 151; and Henry Dangar, 66, 68, 77; and Department of Manufactures accounts, oats, 27b, 77 124, 125, 126, 127, 151; dispute with O’Brien, Patrick (convict): death of, 439, William Pickering over repair of keel 485 of Lambton, 239; and employment Odell, John (King Street, Sydney): request matters, 145; and John Henderson, 65, for employment, 14 68; medical matters, 21a, 59, 117; and office-messenger, 107a superintendence of Company’s accounts, 469; and William Turnbull, 65, 68 Ogilvie, William (Merton, Hunter’s River): and exchange of assigned Nithsdale: convicts on, 222, 607 convicts, 461 Norton, James (Sydney): account of, 581; Olive, Charles (Brickfield, Carrington): and agreement of Adams, John, 212; request for additional allowances, 268; and alienation of Company land for request to be discharged, 104, 106, 355 cemetery and church, 156, 540; and case of termination of agreement, 378; and Oliver, George (Hunter’s River): and financial matters, 243; and forwarding forwarding of letter, inspection of cattle of letter of attorney, 414; and and engagement of employee by A. A. investment for Port Stephens Savings Company, 594 Bank, 492; and legal measures against O’Neill, James: and drunkenness on cattle assigned convicts entering homes of station, 391 indentured servants for the purpose page 444 Index
O’Neill, William: account of Sydney Perrett, Isaac (Patrick’s Plains): and James Monitor, 457 B. Harris, 47 Ovens, John, late see executors of late Perry, S. A.: and land left open for John Ovens (Sydney) examination, 152; and loan of overseer for Cattle Department: perambulator, 152 advertisement for, 499a Phillips, Henry (convict): exchange of, Oxley, John, late see executors of late 497 John Oxley Phillips, Mr (Paterson’s River): debt of, Oxley, John (Sydney): proprietor of stock 221, 225, 227; and sale of tobacco, 23 in A. A. Company, 618 Philp, Alexander: draft in favour of, 532 Phoenix: convicts on, 426, 514 Palambam: passage on for William phthisis pulmonalis, 485 Burnett and family, 505, 510 Pickering, Nathan (Sydney): and payment Palmer, G. T. (Parramatta): proprietor of for services not performed, 415 stock in A. A. Company, 618 Pickering, William (Carrington): dispute parishes see Crosbie, Parish of; Faulkland, with Alexander Nisbet over repair of Parish of; Fitzroy, Parish of; Horton, keel of Lambton, 239; request to be Parish of; Karuah, Parish of; Tarean, discharged, 138, 145, 267 Parish of; Thalaba, Parish of; Trevor, Pilcher, H. J. (Vineyard Cottage, Parish of; Verulam, Parish of; Wilmot, Paterson’s River): and sale of bulls, 224 Parish of Piper, Captain see executors of late John Parker, Abraham (convict): non-arrival Ovens (Sydney) of, 303 Piper, John (Bathurst): and stud service, Parry, Sir Edward: appointment of as 246 Commissioner, A, D, E; arrival of, A, E; plasterers: application for assignment of, and extension of leave of absence, 490; 389 health of, 5; and journey over part of estate, 117, 120; legality of his sitting on Platt, J. L. (Hunter’s River): and grinding bench in matters relating to Company and dressing of wheat, 290b servants, 336a, 556b, 582 pneumonia, 439, 485 Parry, W. E. see Parry, Sir Edward police: cost of to A. A. Company, 60, 157, Parry, Sir William Edward see Parry, Sir 582, 620; establishment of on Company Edward estate, 60, 582, 620; Government Constable at Stroud, 157, 195; and Paterson’s Plains see Stubbs, Thomas regulations for freight and passage on (Paterson’s Plains) Lambton, 23; see also District Constable; Paterson’s River see Phillips, Mr Principal Constable (Paterson’s River); Pilcher, H. J. Police Magistrate, Maitland: and loan of (Vineyard Cottage, Paterson’s River) convicts for harvest, 251 Patrick’s Plains see Perrett, Isaac (Patrick’s pork see salt pork Plains); Webber, James P. (Patrick’s Plains, Hunter’s River) Port Macquarie see Innes, Major A. C. (Port Macquarie, Sydney) Peppercorne, W. H. (Hunter’s River): and offer of services of James Sea as clerk, Port Stephens: additional military 168 detachment at, 157; military guard at, 26; preparations for arrival of perambulator: loan of to A. A. Company, Sir Edward Parry at, E; religious 112, 152
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instruction at, 164; Savings Bank at see Principal Constable: Company allowances Port Stephens Savings Bank; school at for, 390 see school at Port Stephens; spiritual Principal Superintendent of Convicts welfare of Company at, C; see also (Sydney), 40; application for assigned Barton, William (Company Accountant convicts, 73, 158, 199, 206, 211, 282, — Port Stephens); Campbell, D. 418, 435, 445, 448, 462, 488, 501, 516, (Port Stephens); Carrington; Dangar, 522; arrival of assigned convicts, 134, Henry (Port Stephens); Donelan, J. W. 146, 191, 207, 222, 273; and assigned (Carrington, Port Stephens); Ebsworth, convict to be sent to Port Stephens, James Edward (Company Accountant 154; and assignment of convicts to A. — Carrington, Port Stephens); free store A. Company, 41, 103; and assignment at Port Stephens; military guard at Port of Thomas Forster, 375; and claim by Stephens; Nisbet, Dr Alexander (Port convict Thomas Flanagan, 314; and Stephens); Resident Magistrates, Port claims for ticket of leave, 317, 486, 488; Stephens; Stacy, J. E. (Company Surgeon and exchange of assigned convicts, 400, — Carrington, Port Stephens) 427, 607; and group of ten convicts Port Stephens Savings Bank: and account assigned to A. A. Company, 542; and with Bank of Australia, 482, 483, 492; identification of David Gorbett, 235; advertisement for, 568; allowance for and information about ticket of leave John Burnett as clerk of, 509; amount for assigned convict, 153; non-arrival of deposited in, 549, 573; establishment of, assigned convicts, 273; and non-arrival 247, 263; investment of money for, 345, of assigned convicts, 74, 279, 303, 589a; 492; proposal to make it a branch of that and non-arrival of group of ten assigned at Sydney, 549, 573; and shares in Bank convicts, 514, 517; and notification of Australia, 548; see also Committee for of death of assigned convict, 85, 165, management of Port Stephens Savings 346, 439, 485, 590, 591; and renewal Bank of ticket of leave, 281; and request for Portland: convicts on, 153, 545, 580, 631 information about assigned convicts, 174; and return of assigned convict potatoes, 27b after punishment, 405; and return/ Power, William (convict), 24, 40 replacement of Company irons/shackles, Poynder, Richard (convict): and return 362; and ten convicts assigned to A. A. to A. A. Company after acquittal on Company, 541; see also Board for the grounds of insanity, 566 Assignment of Servants prices: of beef, 535; of bullocks, 360; of Principal Superintendent of Police: office cattle, 350, 357; of coal, 228, 309, 496, of, 40 505a, 505b, 534a, 536, 577, 578; of flour, Prinner, William (convict): machine- 535; in free store at Port Stephens, 28; of breaker, 450 grinding wheat, 326; of maize, 392; of Probert, Charles (convict): admission to mutton, 535; Newcastle contract prices General Hospital, Sydney, 257 of provisions for military guard, 26, 157; of rams, 331, 481; of shipping wool, Produce Sweepstakes, 299 534; for shipping wool to England, 296, proprietors of stock in A. A. Company: 537; for supplying military with rations, list of in relation to Annual Report, 519, 535; Sydney, 259; of tobacco, 162, 204a; list of in relation to call of 221, 225, 227; of trousers, 598; of wheat, shares, 618, 619; see also stock of A. A. 182, 354; of white lead, 302 Company Prince Regent: convicts on, 592; wool Providence: convicts on, 439, 485 transported on, 534, 537, 544 Public Works see Director of Public Works page 446 Index
purchases: regulations for making on requisitions: general order relating to, behalf of A. A. Company, 6 127, 137; see also under Bunn, George Resident Magistrate, Maitland: and Raby see Dutton, W. H. (Raby, Sydney) description of bushranger, 551 Radcliffe, John (convict): assignment of, Resident Magistrate, Newcastle: and 389 description of bushranger, 551 Rainey, James, 433 Resident Magistrates, Port Stephens: relation of to A. A. Company, 582; rams: advertisements for sale of, 185; and salary of, 582; stipend for, 620; see claim re disease in, 322; exchange of also Donelan, J. W. (Carrington, Port cattle for, 232; exchange of wheat for, Stephens); Moffatt, Captain R. G. 288, 373; sale of, 169, 205, 209, 212, (Carrington) 331, 444, 481; wool samples from, 179 Rickards, Grace: marriage of, 356, 381, Rapsey and Mitchell: and sale of wheat, 393 366 Riddell, Campbell Drummond (Colonial rations for assigned convicts, 84; tenders Treasurer): and engagement of Mr for supply of at Newcastle, 624a White as clerk, 212 Rawson, James (convict): assignment of, right of Receiver of Stolen Goods to land 501 on Company land, 52 Raymond, James (Postmaster General, rights of free settlers to take flocks Sydney): and forwarding of letters and through Company estate, 52 newspapers, 278; and shipping of mail, 340 rights of wives of indentured servants to refuse to do washing, 58 razors, 593, 598 Riley, Alexander.: and offer of sale of Receiver of Stolen Goods: right of to land Saxon sheep to A. A. Company, 53, 122 on Company land, 52 robbery: outlet for stolen goods, 344a; regiments see 17th Regiment; 57th Richard Poynder and, 566; Receiver of Regiment Stolen Goods and, 52; Patrick Sheridan regulations: to be observed at the Coal- and, 172 Wharf, Newcastle, 479, 505a, 534a; for Robinson, George (convict): admission to freight and passage on Lambton, 23, General Hospital, Sydney, 631 27, 28, 42; for hours of labour, 204; for making purchases for Company, 6 Robson, John: and acquisition of some of Lambton’s guns, 547 Reiby, Mrs: claim against A. A. Company, 72 rock salt, 593, 598, 608 Reid, James (Newcastle): and draft in Rodgers, Thomas (convict): non-arrival favour of, 532; and tender for supplies, of, 74 376; and tender for supply of beef, 387, Rogers, John (convict): non-arrival of, 273 388 rope, 121, 216, 294, 310 religion see church; church establishment; rope-making, 586 church services; clergyman; religious Rover, 307, 315 instruction; spiritual welfare of population of Company estate Russell, George (convict): death of, 591 religious instruction, 164, 167 rent: for William Jones, labourer, 625; for salaries see wages and salaries police buildings, 582 salt pork: tender for supply of, 424
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salt works, Newcastle, 460a, 528, 536; see payment for sale of bullocks, 432; and also rock salt payment for sale of cattle, 452; and Saunders, Thomas (convict): exchange of, tender for sale of cattle, 350, 357, 363, 400, 427 493 Savings Bank at Port Stephens see Port Sesostris: convicts on, 312, 405, 475 Stephens Savings Bank shares in A. A. Company: call of, 42, Sawkins, Mr (Carrington): and bags of 42a, 43, 117, 614, 615, 616; payment Lamb, Buchanan & Co., 576; complaints of instalments on, 39, 114, 118, 119; see by, 166; and grinding of wheat, 184, also stock of A. A. Company 198, 214, 225, 283, 302, 319, 517; sheep: decrease in numbers of, 527; request for increase in salary, 88; increase in numbers of, 435, 516, 536, request to be employed as miller, 166 582, 621; sale of to A. A. Company, sawyers: application for assignment of, 53; see also French sheep; lambs; rams; 67, 199, 389, 448; assignment of, 279 Saxon sheep; scab Saxon sheep, 53, 122; sale of, 169, 185; Sheep Department, 82 wool samples from, 179 shepherds: application for assignment of, scab: and free settlers taking flocks 19a, 67, 199, 206, 435, 488, 516, 613, through Company estate, 52, 83, 101 635; German, 473 scale of labour: fixing of, 84 Sheridan, Patrick (convict): conviction of for robbery, 329; and robbery, 172 school at Port Stephens, C, 164, 167; see also Manson, Alexander S. shingle splitters: application for assignment of, 389 schoolmaster: assignment as, 562 Shipley: convicts on, 273, 303 Scotch bulls: sale of, 224 shoemakers: application for assignment Scott, A. W.: and produce sweepstakes, of, 19a, 199, 389; assignment of, 279 299 shoemaking: training in, 89 Scott, Helenus (Glendon, Hunter’s River): and delivery of wheat, 395; and shoes see clothing, shoes, blankets, etc. exchange of cattle for rams, 232, 373; shows see under cattle proprietor of stock in A. A. Company, Singleton, Benjamin (Hunter’s River, 619; and sale of rams to, 481; and William’s River): and flour and bran, sending of mares to, 481 583, 596; and offer of sale of flour, 333; Scott, Robert (Glendon, Hunter’s River): and quality of flour delivered, 372, 543, proprietor of stock in A. A. Company, 596; and supply of flour, 399; and wheat 619 to be ground into flour, 524 Sea, James: and offer of services of as Singleton, W. B.: and removal of boat clerk by W. H. Peppercorne, 168 from Sawyer’s Point, 552 seamen: assignment of, 461 Sir Godfrey Webster: convicts on, 273, seed wheat: delivery of, 420, 428; order 514, 589a, 601 of, 68, 77, 79, 117; payment for, 422; Skammald, John (convict): non-arrival purchase of, 359; sale of, 367, 383; of, 514 sample of, 353, 354 Slack, John (convict), 222 seeds see garden seeds Slade, George M. (Sydney): account of, Sempill, H. C. (Hyde Park, Sydney): and 16, 22; and impounded horse, 208, 230, delivery of cattle, 379; and offer for 234; return of as storekeeper of free sale of threshing machines, 363; and store at Port Stephens, 3a, 7, 8
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Smeathman, C. T. (Upper Pitt Street, spring wheat see under wheat Sydney): request for employment, 12 St Vincent: convicts on, 273 Smith, James or John (convict): non- stable boys: assignment of, 273 arrival of, 514 Stacey, Benjamin, 21a Smith, John (Newcastle): and delivery of Stacey, Mrs: passage of on Asia, 69 goods to Lambton, 276; and grinding of wheat, 291, 311, 326; and warehousing Stacy, J. E. (Company Surgeon of goods, grain, etc. in Newcastle, 231, — Carrington, Port Stephens): and 249, 287, 288, 321, 325, 395 allowances in servants, produce or money, 107; and Richard Barnett case, Smith, Robert (convict): non-arrival of, 80; claim by relating to inquests, 436; 514 and establishment of Savings Bank at Smyth, A. (York Street, Sydney): and sale Port Stephens, 247; and free store at Port of cattle, 498 Stephens, 3a; and increase in salary, 59; Smyth, William (Stroud): and hours of and medical matters, 21a, 111; objection labour, 204; and permission to go to of to attending convicts not assigned Sydney, 204 to A. A. Company, 605; and request soap: kelp or barilla for manufacture of, for position of Superintendent of any 569–570 establishment near Liverpool Plains, 507 Sophia: convicts on, 545 Stafford, Mr (Deputy Assistant Commissary General at Newcastle), 120; Sophia Jane, 558, 576 and steam engines, 175 South Creek see Wentworth, George Stapleton, James (convict): non-arrival of, (South Creek) 273, 303 Sovereign, 5, 359, 598; wool transported stationery: for Coal Department, 175 on, 20 Stead, Lieutenant: and markets in India, sown grasses, 27b 105 Spark, A. B. (Sydney): and bills on steam engines: market for coal for, 98, 99, Governor and Directors of A. A. 100, 132; at Newcastle, 175, 180, 198, Company, 225, 226; proprietor of stock 203; survey of, 65, 68; transport of to in A. A. Company, 618; and sale of Newcastle, 162, 173, 184, 189 tobacco, 23 Steel, Captain (Governor of H. M. Gaol, Spark, E.: draft in favour of, 532 Sydney): and petition for mitigation of Sparke, Edward, Jnr (Ravensfield, sentence of Robert Hames, 477 Maitland): and tender for supply of salt Steel, James: accommodation for, 184; and pork, 424 steam engines, 184, 198, 203 Sparke, W. (Newcastle): and tender for steel mills: for grinding corn, 5; with supply of beef, 387, 388 hoppers fitted, 23 Sparke, William (Hunter’s River): and Stephen, Mr Justice (Sydney): proprietor supply of maize, 398; and tender for of stock in A. A. Company, 618 supply of maize, 392 Stephen, S.: and death of King George IV, Speed, J. W. (O’Connell Street, Sydney): 350a request for employment, 617 Stirling Castle: wool transported on, 537, spirits: free store at Port Stephens and, 544, 548, 550 3a, 28; on Lambton, 27; see also drinking stock see breeding stock spiritual welfare of population of Company estate, C, 131, 167 stock of A. A. Company: letters to
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proprietors of re call of shares, 42, 117, Superintendent of Horses and Cattle: 618, 619; see also proprietors of stock position of, 17, 18, 19, 31, 32, 33, 34, in A. A. Company; shares in A. A. 35, 36, 37, 38, 44; see also Hall, Henry Company (George Street, Sydney — Company stone see currier’s knife stone Superintendent of Horses/Stud and Cattle) stone-cutters: application for assignment of, 512 Superintendent of Stud and Cattle see Hall, Henry (George Street, Sydney stonemasons: application for assignment — Company Superintendent of Horses/ of, 293, 389; terms of re-engagement of, Stud and Cattle); Superintendent of 626 Horses and Cattle store see free store at Port Stephens Surgeon to the A. A. Company, 21a; storekeeper (free store at Port Stephens): salary of, 59; see also Stacy, J. E. position of, 28, 29, 30, 30a; see also free (Company Surgeon — Carrington, Port store at Port Stephens; Stubbs, Richard Stephens) (George Street, Sydney, Carrington survey: of Clergy and School Reserve — storekeeper of free store) adjoining Company estate, 240; of land Street, Mr (Government contractor), 479 north of Manning River, 66, 112, 181, Street, Mr (Sydney): refusal to pay 240; of Newcastle, 270 account, 264 Surveyor-General see Mitchell, Major Street, Thomas: account against, 3b Thomas Livingstone Stroud: church services at, 167; Surveyor General’s Department: and loan Government Constable for, 157, 195; of instruments to A. A. Company, 152 stationing of additional military guard Surveyor of Roads, Parramatta: and report at, 157; see also Booral Stroud; Hall, on for convict re ticket of leave, 465 Charles (Stroud); Kemp, Simon (Stroud); Surveyor of Roads, Wollombi Station: and Smyth, William (Stroud); Swayne, John convicts assigned to A. A. Company, (Stroud); Watson, Joseph (Stroud) 541; and group of ten convicts assigned Stubbs, Richard (George Street, to A. A. Company, 542 Sydney, Carrington — storekeeper Swayne, John (Stroud): and account of free store): and assignment of sales of wool, 82; and handover to John McCune, 522; and conditions from William Burnett, 497; request for of employment as storekeeper of free increase in salary, 238 store at Port Stephens, 28; debt of, 359; and drunkenness on cattle station, Sydney Gazette, 422; account, 15, 68, 184, 391; payment by, 437; and position 302, 361; advertisements, 3, 23, 169, of storekeeper of free store at Port 208, 269, 308, 334, 377, 382, 460a, 489a, Stephens, 29; premises for, 68; request 489b, 499a, 505a, 505b, 534a; delivery for employment, 11; and sales of stores of to Port Stephens, 3, 12a, 15, 117, 184; from Company warehouses, 253; servant missing copy of, 576, 598; notices, 68, of going to gaol, 282a 556a, 586a; share call advertisements, 42, 117, 615; sheep sales advertisements, Stubbs, Thomas (Paterson’s Plains): 185 request for employment, 515 Sydney Herald: advertisements, 489a, Stud Department, 289 489b, 499a, 505a, 534a; notices, 556a stud service see under horses Sydney Monitor: account, 68, 258; Superintendent of Coal Mines see and advertisements, 45; article in on Henderson, John (Manager, Coal Works, operations of Coal Works, Newcastle, Newcastle) 630; see also Hall, E. S. page 450 Index
Sydney [sic] Almanack see Australian for, 317, 486, 623; information about Almanack for assigned convict, 153; and loss of assigned convicts, 435, 488, 516, 530, 579, 613; renewal of, 281; report on Tahlee: garden, 5 convict re, 465 Tahlee House, 181 tobacco: for assigned convicts, 229; tan-yard, 27c colonial, 173, 294; cultivation of, 458; tanning: collection of mimosa bark for, 90 duty on, 68, 117; price of, 162, 221, 225, Tarean, Parish of, 344a 227; purchase of, 23, 162 Target, James (convict): subpoened in tobacco growing, 27a case of Michael Connolly, 566a Tomlins, Mr (O’Connell Street, Sydney): Telfair, Charles (Mauritius): and market and position of storekeeper of free store for export of coal to Mauritius, 76, 192 at Port Stephens, 30a tenders: for premises at Newcastle, 178; Tomlins, George: and position of for supplies, 376, 377; for supplies of: Accountant, 447 beef, 387, 388; bricks, 23; cattle, 350, Tongue, James (convict): notification of 357, 363, 493; maize, 392; salt pork, 424; death of, 165 for supply of flour and meat to military Tottenham: convicts on, 257 detachment at Port Stephens, 535; for Townsend, George: payment to, 385 supply of rations at Newcastle, 624a; for transport of wool to England, 489a, 534 Townsend, Thomas S. (George Street, Sydney): request for employment as Tennant, Richard (convict): assignment clerk, 223 of, 501 trespassing on Company estate, 52, 83, Terry, S. (Sydney): and non-payment for 101, 335; with permission of magistrate, provisions, 311a 610 testimonials re employment, 9, 11, 13, Trevor, Parish of, 397 14, 17, 18, 19, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 49, 50, 460a, 499a troops: victualling of, 300; see also military guard at Port Stephens Thalaba, Parish of, 344a Tulk, Thomas (Carrington): request to be Therry, Roger (Commissioner of the Court discharged, 337, 572 of Requests, Sydney): and request for opinion of legal powers re termination Turnbull, Andrew, 120, 121; and patterns of agreements, 378 for casting, 576; plan and specifications of threshing machine, 175; wages of, 123 Thomas, Thomas (convict): assignment of, 501 Turnbull, William: Alexander Nisbet and, 65, 68 Thompson, Frederick: and identification of David Gorbett, 235 Thompson, Thomas (convict): non-arrival vegetable impressions: specimens of of, 514 found in coal mines, 255 threshing machines, 27c, 175, 220, 225, Verulam, Parish of, 344a, 397 363 Vibelia, 69; Mrs Croasdill’s passage on, 69 Throsby, Charles (Glenfield): and Villet, Mr, and garden seeds payment of instalments on shares in A. A. Company, 119; proprietor of stock in W. Walker & Co. see William Walker & A. A. Company, 618 Co. ticket of leave: alteration of, 606, 608, 633, 634; cancellation of, 281; claims
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wages and salaries: of William Barton, Webber, James P. (Paterson’s Plains): and 259; of William Burnett, 497; of Daniel exchange of ram for wheat, 373 Ivey, mason and general labourer, Wells, James (convict): assignment of, 389 626; of William Jones, labourer, 625; Wentworth, George (South Creek): and of mechanics, 212; obligation to pay ticket of leave for William Edwards, 623 indentured servant before, during and/ or after imprisonment, 262; request for Wetherman, William (Carrington): and increase in, 88, 90, 186, 238; of Resident accusation of dishonesty against William Magistrate, 582; of Surgeon, 59 Barton, 285; and arrangements between A. A. Company and Bank of Australia, waggoners: assignment of, 273 446; claim by, 529; and complaint about Walker, James: and payment of account, conduct towards servant of Captain R. 364, 365 G. Moffatt, 525, 526; and establishment Walker, John: and impounded horse, 234 of Savings Bank at Port Stephens, 247; Walker, Thomas (Sydney): and payment and free store at Port Stephens, 3a; and of account, 364, 365; and stud service, general order relating to requisitions, 401 127; instructions to, 141; and marking and numbering of bales of wool, 81; and Walker, William, & Co. see William memorandum from Alexander Nisbet Walker & Co. (Sydney) to William Barton, 143; and missing Wallace, Michael (convict): A. A. vouchers in William Barton’s office, Company’s obligations in regard to, 601; 304; and premises in Macquarie Place, non arrival of, 589a; non-arrival of, 514 Sydney, 71, 72; and requisitions, 5; Wallerawang see Brown, Andrew suggestions from, 142; and weighing of (Wallerawang, District of Bathurst) wheat, 68; and wheat, 140 Wallis’ Plains: sheep sales at, 169, 187, Whalan, James (convict): admission to 205, 331; see also Boardman, Thomas General Hospital, Sydney, 257 (Wallis’ Plains) wharf see under Coal Works, Newcastle Walton, Edward: complaint against for wheat, 5, 27b, 140, 321, 325; to be disobedience, 80 ground into flour, 57, 79, 135, 184, 198, Walton, Edward (convict): claim for ticket 214, 225, 258, 283, 290b, 291, 302, 311, of leave, 317 319, 326, 384, 433, 517, 524; delivery Wam, Thomas (Sydney): and position of of, 395; discrepancies in weight of, 68; Superintendent of Horses and Cattle, 37 exchange of rams for, 288, 373; grinding and dressing of, 290b, 291; payment Warn, Thomas: and position of for, 421; price of, 182; purchase of, 353, Superintendent of Horses and Cattle, 37 354, 366; quality of, 395; reservation water frontage for Coal Works at of, 348; spring, 182, 184; transported Newcastle, 93, 120, 161, 270, 347a, 499, on Lambton, 68, 79, 183, 214, 225, 258, 564, 597 283, 302, 319; see also seed wheat watermen: assignment of, 273 wheels: patterns of, 548 Watson, Joseph (Stroud): and hours of wheelwrights: application for assignment labour, 204 of, 198; assignment of, 279 Watts, William (convict): machine- White, Henry (convict): exchange of, 545, breaker, 450 580; information about ticket of leave weather: inclement, 87 for, 153 Weaver, Mr (coach-builder, Sydney): White, J. C.: account of Sydney Monitor, account of, 135; and repair of dog-cart, 457 194 page 452 Index
White, Mr: engagement of as clerk, 212 Woodley, R.: draft in favour of, 612 White, Thomas H. (Sydney): and position wool: account sales of, 81, 82, 91; price of Superintendent of Horses and Cattle, for shipping of to England from Port 38, 50 Stephens rather than Sydney, 296; white lead, 302 samples, 179, 185; shipping of to England, 237, 269, 295, 296, 306, 327, Whitton, William (convict): assignment 338, 534; tenders for transport of to of, 545 England, 489a, 534; transported on Wilkie, James: and shipment of goods, Eliza, 91; transported on Integrity, 534, 402 544; transported on Katherine Stewart William: arrival of Mr Burnett and family Forbes, 79; transported on Lambton, on, E; arrival of Sir Edward Parry on, A; E, 3, 20, 533, 534; transported on New and David Gorbett, 235 Zealander, 319; transported on Prince William, John (convict): assignment of, Regent, 534, 537, 544; transported on 389 Sovereign, 20; transported on Stirling Castle, 537, 544, 548, 550 William Walker & Co. (Sydney): and bullock hides, 327, 349; and hides, wool-press, 184 401; payment by, 474; and shipping of Woolridge, John (convict): non-arrival package to England, 341; and shipping of, 273 of wool and other goods, 327; and Wright, Thomas (convict): alteration of shipping of wool to England, 295, 296, tickets of leave to Sydney, 633 306, 338, 339; and stud service, 401 Williams, William (Pitt Street, Sydney): York: convicts on, 400, 427 and subpoena re George Jones, 475 Young, Edward (convict), 217 William’s River: and boundary of land left open for examination, 152; see also Henderson, Mr (Roslin, William’s River); Hood, Archibald (Jacob Newton’s, William’s River); Myles, Lawrence (William’s River); Singleton, Benjamin (Hunter’s River, William’s River) Wilmot, Parish of, 344a Winder, J. M.: and delivery of wheat, 321 Winder, T. W. M. (Windermere, Maitland): and exchange of wheat for rams, 288 wives of indentured servants: rights of to refuse to do washing, 58 Wollstonecraft, Edward (Sydney): proprietor of stock in A. A. Company, 618 Wood, Lieutenant John (Maitland): as catechist, 167; and grant of land, 155; and publication of banns re marriage of Frederick Leman and Grace Rickards, 381, 393
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