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... privates and persons disposed to become settlers; convicts were to be
assigned to work for persons with land grants; nine persons to act as
superintendents of convicts were to be sent, and twenty-five convict artificers to
provide the urgently ...
... privates and persons disposed to become settlers; convicts were to be
assigned to work for persons with land grants; nine persons to act as
superintendents of convicts were to be sent, and twenty-five convict artificers to
provide the urgently ...
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the persons he had confided in from being massacred by the incensed multitude;
Bligh had engaged in an implacable feud against Macarthur. Johnston saw
himself as a man who had sacrificed comparative ease, and taken on a great ...
the persons he had confided in from being massacred by the incensed multitude;
Bligh had engaged in an implacable feud against Macarthur. Johnston saw
himself as a man who had sacrificed comparative ease, and taken on a great ...
Page 237
Ninety-five free persons (61 men, 18 women and 16 children), 3 orphans, and 25
men and 1 woman convict made up the remainder. It was a strongly masculine
community—about five men to every woman—and there were six adults to every
...
Ninety-five free persons (61 men, 18 women and 16 children), 3 orphans, and 25
men and 1 woman convict made up the remainder. It was a strongly masculine
community—about five men to every woman—and there were six adults to every
...
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