Colonial Australia, 1788-1840 |
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... Supply on 5 April 1790 , famine threatened the colony . Phillip then sent the Supply to Batavia and the whole settlement was dependent on its return . It returned in October , having been the first vessel to circumnavigate New Holland ...
... Supply on 5 April 1790 , famine threatened the colony . Phillip then sent the Supply to Batavia and the whole settlement was dependent on its return . It returned in October , having been the first vessel to circumnavigate New Holland ...
Page 110
... supply of salted provisions sent from London . In the middle of 1802 the meat ration from the government store was reduced drastically , and only the fortuitous arrival of an American merchant ship , the General Boyd , with a cargo of ...
... supply of salted provisions sent from London . In the middle of 1802 the meat ration from the government store was reduced drastically , and only the fortuitous arrival of an American merchant ship , the General Boyd , with a cargo of ...
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... supply , to satisfy the present scale of demand in the British market , that may be contemplated ; but it is fairly to be asumed , that the nature of the market for this commodity , extensive as it now is , affords the prospect of great ...
... supply , to satisfy the present scale of demand in the British market , that may be contemplated ; but it is fairly to be asumed , that the nature of the market for this commodity , extensive as it now is , affords the prospect of great ...
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Aborigines acres agricultural allowed appearance arrived banks Bathurst boat Botany Bay Britain Cape Captain cattle Church coast colonists colony command Committee conduct consequence Court Cove crimes cultivation Diemen's Land district duty emancipists employed England established Excellency farm female convicts Governor King Governor Macquarie Harbour Hawkesbury Historical Records Hobart Town hope Hunter important inhabitants John Macarthur labour letter London Lord Macarthur Macquarie's magistrates Majesty's March Marsden miles military Mitchell Library months Mountains natives Norfolk Island November observed occasion officers Parramatta party persons population Port Dalrymple Port Jackson pounds present prisoners provisions punishment received Records of Australia reported respect returned River sailed sent sentenced servants settlement sheep ships shore situation Society South Wales Corps spirits supply Sydney Gazette trade transportation Trial by Jury Van Diemen's Land vessel voyage W. C. Wentworth wheat women wool