Thomas Peel of Swan RiverHistory of the Swan River Settlement, W.A. and its founder Thomas Peel 1768-1865; Settlement founded 1829; p.77- 78; Contact & reactions between the first Swan River settlers and the Aborigines; Chp.IX; Settlers difficulties with the Murray River Aborigines - murder and plunder - police force formed - Pinjarra area; Effort to civilize Aborigines; Institution for natives founded at foot of Mount Elna 1837 under F.F. Armstrong; Attitude of settlers improved. |
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Page 75
... Murray River , so - called after Sir George Murray , their mutual friend : some forty miles south of Fremantle , this was a part of the map that Stirling had not seen on his first voyage , for the simple reason that that section of the ...
... Murray River , so - called after Sir George Murray , their mutual friend : some forty miles south of Fremantle , this was a part of the map that Stirling had not seen on his first voyage , for the simple reason that that section of the ...
Page 144
... Murray in July 1830 , when George Mackenzie , a young man who had come out in the Gilmore with high hopes of making his fortune and had been one of the first party Peel had sent to the Murray under Adam Arm- strong , had fallen to the ...
... Murray in July 1830 , when George Mackenzie , a young man who had come out in the Gilmore with high hopes of making his fortune and had been one of the first party Peel had sent to the Murray under Adam Arm- strong , had fallen to the ...
Page 199
... Murray . When Captain Singleton had bought the 10,000 acre estate at the junction of the Murray and Dandalup Rivers from Thomas Peel in 1839 he attempted a minor settlement scheme there by advertising that he would rent farms ranging ...
... Murray . When Captain Singleton had bought the 10,000 acre estate at the junction of the Murray and Dandalup Rivers from Thomas Peel in 1839 he attempted a minor settlement scheme there by advertising that he would rent farms ranging ...
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aborigines acres of land Adam Armstrong appeared arrived Association Australind became brother Captain Meares Captain Stirling Clarence Clifton Co-partnership Cockburn Sound Colonial Office Colonial Secretary Cooper and Levey Daniel Cooper daughter debt December Deed Despatches Dora Dunnage Elmslie Emancipists emigrants England establishment Frederick Peel Fremantle Garden Island gentlemen Gilmore Government Governor Stirling grant of land Hall horse ibid indentured James Stirling January knew labour Land Titles Office later leave letter Levey's Location 16 London Mandurah Mandurah House Mary Charlotte ment months Murray River natives party Peel's Peelfold person Perth Gazette Pinjarra received reported Robert Peel Rockingham sailed Serpentine Farm servants settlement scheme settlers shillings ship Sir George Murray soldiers Solomon Levey South Wales Stirling's Swan River colony Swan River Guardian Sydney Thomas Peel townsite Twiss Wakefield Western Australia wife William wrote