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In May 1787 the British government sent the First Fleet 20,000 kilometres around the world to establish a British colony in New South Wales. Charting the land. Sydney Cove lies 3 leagues to the northward of Botany Bay which is situated in Lat. 34 S : Long 151 E. The eastern coastline of Australia had been charted by James Cook during his first ...
- State Library of New South Wales
Map showing areas known to British colonists in the colony of New South Wales. The map also indicates areas that had not yet been explored. A map of New South Wales, 1825 | Australia’s Defining Moments Digital Classroom | National Museum of Australia
- Governor Phillip
- Fees For Land Grants from 1825
- Limits of Location and The Nineteen Counties
- No Free Land Grants After 1831
Governor Phillip, in his Instructionsdated 25 April 1787, was empowered to grant land to emancipists. The first land was granted in 1792. Phillip insisted however, that land must have a particular use. As a result only small grants (totalling approximately 4,000 acres) were made in almost five years. It was not until the late 1790s that larger gran...
In 1825 the sale of land by private tender began (Instructions to Governor Brisbane, 17 July 1825, HRA 1.12.107-125). There were still to be grants without purchase but they were not to exceed 2,560 acres or be less than 320 acres unless in the immediate vicinity of a town or village. The Instructions required the Governor to arrange for a new Surv...
On 5 September 1826, a Government order allowed Governor Darling to create the limits of location. Settlers were only permitted to take up land within this area. A further Government order of 14 October 1829 extended these boundaries to an area defined as the Nineteen Counties.
In a despatch dated 9 January 1831, Viscount Goderich instructed that no more free grants (except those already promised) be given. All land was thenceforth to be sold at public auction (HRA 1.16.22) and revenue from the sale of land was to go toward the immigration of labourers. Likewise the practice of granting land as "marriage portions" to the ...
[Portion of Map of the Colony of New South Wales transmitted to Thomas Balcombe by Major Mitchell on 7 April 1834] [cartographic material] / Thomas Mitchell. 7 April ...
- State Library of New South Wales
This map of the colony of New South Wales [cartographic material] : exhibiting the situation and extent of the appropriated lands, including the counties, towns, village reserves &c / compiled from authentic surveys &c is respectfully dedicated to Sir John Barrow Bart., President of the Royal Geographical Society &c &c &c by his obliged humble servant Robert Dixon ; engraved by J & C. Walker
What started as a series of precarious British outposts eventually grew to become six self-governing colonies which claimed the entire continent. These colonies competed for migrants from across the British Empire. Migrants also came from Europe, the United States, China, South Asia and the Pacific. By the 1880s Australia’s population ...
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Detailed map of New South Wales, issued in the London Atlas by John Arrowsmith. The "newly formed" counties are marked, as are the inland expeditions made 1817–1840. The Nineteen Counties were the limits of location in the colony of New South Wales, Australia. Settlers were permitted to take up land only within the counties due to the dangers ...
