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AUSTRALIA: COLONIAL LIFE AND SETTLEMENT
The Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825,
from the State Records Authority of New South Wales

Part 2: Special bundles (topic collections), proclamations, orders and related records, 1789-1825

[N.B. The number in square brackets following each entry is the microfilm frame reference]
(N.B. The letter/number code in round brackets is the manuscript reference)

REEL 20
Special bundles and other records
- Detention of the Brig Harrington
(4/1093.1), 1804-1807, [7]
- Copies of documents re the massacre in New Zealand of
the crew of the Boyd and rescue of the survivors by the City of Edinburgh
(2/8130, pp1-4), 1809, [199]
- Van Diemen’s Land. Including report on the discovery of Macquarie Harbour
and copy of William Sorrell’s commission as Lt Gov
(2/8130, pp5-70), 1807-1816, [202]
- Letter from the Gov of NSW to the chiefs and principal men in the Islands of the
Marquesas re cruelty to natives by John Martin, master of the Queen Charlotte
(2/8130, pp71-81), 12 Jan 1816, [256]
- Papers re suspension of William Gore, Provost Marshal
(2/8130, pp83-136), 1819, [266]
- Correspondence between Judge Advocate Wylde and Gov Macquarie
(2/8130, pp137-222), 1819, [308]
- Correspondence with Charles Throsby re discovery of new country and the building of roads
(2/8130, pp225-265), 1819, [380]
- Papers re building carried out by Macquarie
(2/8130, pp267-326), 1819 - 1821, [412]
- Correspondence between Macquarie and Brisbane,
and from Macquarie to others, preceding his departure
(2/8130, pp327-355), 1822, [459]
- Sandwich Islands
(2/8130, pp357-360), 1822, [487]
- Petitions
(2/8130, pp361-454), 1800-1824, [491]
- Lumber Yard, Paramatta: stores received and issue of iron etc, and inventory at 15 Jan 1810
(2/8131), 19 Apr 1808 - 15 Jan 1810, [550]
- Papers re claims of persons evacuating Norfolk Island for Port Dalrymple
and re food-stuffs supplied to Van Diemen’s Land from Norfolk Island
(4/6977A), 1810 - 1814, [576]
- Proceedings of Court of Enquiry into conduct on board the convict ship Chapman
(9/2639), 1817, [667]

REEL 21
- Coroners’ Inquests
(4/1819), 1809 - 1822, [7]
- Vouchers to expenditure
(4/7079, pp1-43), 1821 - 1822, [634]
- Male orphan school: accounts and vouchers
(4/7079, pp45-272), 1823, [676]
- Despatches recommending free settlers
(4/1094), 1805, 1819 - 1823, [1885]

REEL 22
- Medical Comforts shipped in London for the use of convicts
(4/7105.3), 1 May 1819 - 21 Jul 1823, [7]
- Re clearing gangs and debts due to the Govt for land
cleared in the time of Sir Thomas Brisbane
(4/7014), 1822 - 1823, [209]

REEL 23
- Naval Officer’s Quarterly Reports
(X698 - X701), 1810 - 30 Jun 1824, [6]
- Reports of prisoners tried in the Criminal Court of Jurisdiction
(including Hobart, 7 Feb 1823)
(X820), 1820 - 1824, [703]
- Returns of convicts tried before magistrates at Appin, Bathurst, Campbelltown,
Liverpool, Parramatta, Penrith, Sydney Police Office and Westmoreland
(4/6671), Jul 1823 - Dec 1824, [775]
- Statements of stores shipped on convict vessels
(4/1095.2), 1810 - 1825, [901]
- Monthly returns of punishments, Newcastle
(4/1718), Dec 1810 - Oct 1825, [1047]

REEL 24
- Returns of Births, Deaths and Marriages:
Sydney, St Phillips, (2/8293), 1811 - 1825, [6]
Sydney, St James, (2/8294), 1824 - 1825, [254]

- Returns of Births, Deaths and Marriages:
Sydney, General Hospital: deaths, (2/8295, pp1-18), Jan 1811 - Mar 1812, 1818, [278]
Parramatta, St Johns, (2/8296 - 2/8297, pp1-102), 1811 - Mar 1825, [298]
Windsor and Hawkesbury District, (2/8298), 1811-1820, [570]

REEL 25
- Returns of Births, Deaths and Marriages:
Windsor and Hawkesbury District, (2/8299, pp1-120), 1821 - Sep 1825, [6]
Castlreagh and Richmond, (2/8300, pp3-282), 1815 - 1825, [125]
Liverpool District, (2/8301, pp1-20, 27-232), Oct 1811 - Sep 1825, [391]
Bringelly and Cooke: deaths, (2/8301, pp21-24), Apr 1816 - Sep 1816, [413]
Campbelltown, (2/8302, pp1-19), May1821 - Mar 1825, [605]
Roman Catholic, (2/8302, pp57-76), Jan 1821 - Mar 1821, [615]
Newcastle, (2/8303, pp1-52), Jul 1818 - Jun 1825, [633]

REEL 26
- Affidavits attesting to loss of certificates of freedom
(4/1713 - 4/1714), 1823 - 1825, [8]
- Certificates of conduct and petitions from applicants
for tickets of leave: and affidavits attesting to loss of tickets
(4/1715), c1818 - 1824, [446]

REEL 27
- Certificates of conduct and petitions from applicants
for tickets of leave: and affidavits attesting to loss of tickets
(4/1716.1, 4/1716.2, 4/1717.1, 4/1717.2), 1824-1825, [8]

REEL 28
- Copies of affidavits notifying loss of certificates of freedom, tickets of leave etc
(4/1690, pp1-150), 1822 - 1825, [8]

- Letters from the Navy Office re arrangement of passages to India for the officers
and men of the various regiments who had undertaken escort duty on convict ships
(4/1095.1), 1818 - 1823, 1825, [85]

- Applications for marriage by Special Licence
(2/8305 and 2/8305A), 1819 - 1825, [245]

- Miscellaneous convict returns (2/8283):
Assignment lists for the Earl Cornwallis, 13 Oct 1800, [459]
Indent for the Tellicherry, 17 Aug 1805, [469]
Appin District: returns of convicts received, assigned and returned, 1824, [479]
Counties of Northumberland and Durham: returns of convicts assigned
Feb 1824 - Nov 1824, [493]
Bathurst: returns of convicts whose original sentence had not been transmitted
10 Apr, 27 Aug 1824, [515]
Emu Plains: returns of men discharged
Mar 1822 - Oct 1824, [528, 556, 574, 580, 584, 555]
Emu Plains: return of sundry convict absentees from the Establishment
apprehended in different districts and sentenced to Port Macquarie
1 Apr 1822 - 31 Mar 1823
Return of convicts received by the Bench of Evan
[555]
For general distribution from Emu Plains
25 Oct 1823, [572]
List of labourers selected from Emu Plains and sent to Penrith Bench for assignment
25 Oct, 8 Nov, 10 Dec 1823 [573, 579, 583]
List of 50 labourers selected from Emu Plains and sent to Windsor Bench for assignment
8 Nov 1823, [578]
Emu Plains: returns of convicts received on the Establishment
Mar 1823, Jan 1824, [604, 608]
Emu Plains: return of agricultural implements, tools, etc as per Muster
1 Jan 1824, [610]
Emu Plains: return of grain and tobacco issued and expended
Jan 1824, [613]
Emu Plains: return of stores received from the Engineer Department, Sydney
Oct 1824, [615]
Parramatta Barrack: weekly returns of convicts received or discharged
Jun 1824 - Sep 1824, [618]
Return of 17 convicts landed from the ships Mangles and Minerva and
forwarded to Parramatta for distribution
29 Nov 1824, [634]
Rooty Hill: list of convicts attached to the Establishment as delivered
over to George Blackett and David Johnston
22 Oct 1823, [637]
Rooty Hill: monthly statement of changes in convicts
Oct 1823 - Dec 1825, [639]

REEL 29
- Pay lists of constables at Sydney and vicinity, and returns of allowances in lieu of rations
(4/7016A-D), 21 Dec 1822 - 24 Nov 1825

REEL 30
- Pay lists of constables at Parramatta & neighbourhood and South Creek, and returns
of constables’ wives and children entitled to the commutation in lieu of rations
(4/7017A-B), 20 Dec 1823 - 24 Sep 1825

REEL 31
- Government Stores, Wellington Valley (4/1093.4):
Returns of wheat and maize grain and meal received and issued (incomplete)
Feb 1824 - Nov 1825, [9]
Monthly returns of beef received
Nov 1824 - Feb 1825, [29], May 1825 - Nov 1825
Weekly returns of public labour performed by Government gangs (incomplete)
1825, [51]
Return of one male convict transferred from Wellington Valley
to Sydney for the purpose of claiming a certificate of freedom
1 Aug 1825, [88]

- Returns of the Government Stock Establishment, and other papers:
Returns of Government working cattle at Lane Cove
Jan 1810 - Aug 1811, (4/7028A, pp3-10), [93]
Returns of Government working cattle at Sydney and Grose Farm
(4/7028A, pp15-28), Jun - Dec 1812, Feb 1813, [101]
A comparative statement of Mr Jamieson’s returns of Government horned cattle
and those of the Muster Masters, and account of the cattle stated as not belonging to Government
(4/7028A, pp29-30), Feb 1813, [115]
List of settlers and other persons who are entitled to receive
horned cattle from the Government herds in 1816, on credit
(4/7028A, pp31-36), 22 Jun 1816, [117]
Weekly returns of Government stock
(4/7028A, pp37-152), 12-19 Jul 1817, [123]
Weekly returns of Government stock
(4/7028A, pp155-230), 13 Sep 1817 - 21 Aug 1819, [241]
Return of wild bulls shot at the Cowpastures
(4/7028A, pp153-154), 17 Oct 1818 - 14 Nov 1818, [239]
Return of fresh meat supplied to stores
(4/7028A, pp231-232), 2 Oct 1819 - 6 Nov 1819, [317]
Return of cattle supplied to stores
(4/7028A, pp233-234), c.Nov 1819, [319]
Return of horned cattle issued from Govt herds
(4/7028B), 22 Aug 1819 - 27 Dec 1823, [321]
Cowpastures: weekly returns of Government stock and men employed
(4/7028C), Oct 1822, 28 Dec 1823 - 31 Dec 1825, [337]
Rooty Hill: receipts for stores and animals issued; and covering letters
(4/7028D), 1824 - 1825, [671]
Bathurst: returns of Government stock; and letters. From 21 Jun 1823, returns of
men employed and statements of the private stock of the Superintendent are included
(4/7029A), 17 Oct 1817 - 31 Dec 1825, [901]

REEL 32
- Returns of the Government Stock Establishment, and other papers (continued):
Bathurst: receipts for stock, wool and grain issued
(4/7029B, pp1-36), Nov 1823 - Dec 1825, [10]
Receipts for meat issued to Government stores
(4/7029B, pp57-634), 17 Dec 1823 - 31 Dec 1825, [53]
Wellington Valley: miscellaneous livestock returns
(4/7029C, pp1-6), Apr, Aug 1825, [571]
Receipts for meat received into the victualling stores
(4/7029C, pp25-226), 31 Oct 1824 - 30 Dec 1825, [577]
Newcastle: returns of Government stock and other papers
(4/7029D), Jun 1809 - May 1821, May - Jul 1823, Apr - Nov 1825, [759]

REEL 33
- Returns of the Government Stock Establishment, and other papers (continued):
Weekly returns of Government stock, 7 Oct 1821 - 27 Dec 1823
Accounts of oxen, sheep and calves killed at the Dairy
for the use of Government House, 12 Jan 1822 - 26 May 1822
Letters, 1821 - 1823, [8]
Musters of Government horses and working oxen at the Sydney Station,
1 Dec 1823 - 1 Jan 1826, [264]
Returns of Government stock at Rooty Hill, Toongabbie and the Parramatta Dairy
22 Oct 1823 - 21 Dec 1825, [304]

REEL 34
- Papers of Charles Throsby, including various journals of exploration
(9/2743 - 9/2744), 1810 - 1826, [8]
- Allan Cunningham - Journals and Correspondence: Journals
(SZ7 - SZ8), 20 Sep 1816 - 27 Sep 1822, [252]

REEL 35
- Allan Cunningham - Journals and Correspondence (cont):
Part of a journal of a voyage from Rio de Janeiro to New South Wales
(SZ11, pp1-13), 25 Sep 1816 - 3 Nov 1816, [8]
‘A specimen of the Indigenous Botany of the Mountainous Country situate between the
Colony of Port Jackson and the Western Settlement of Bathurst; the result of observations
1822, grouped according to Natural Orders’ (Published in Barren Field
Geographical Memoirs of New South Wales, 1825)
(SZ12, pp1-22), 1825, [23]
Supplementary information relating to botanical discoveries in 1823
(SZ12, pp23-24), c1825, [45]
Copies of correspondence to and from the Colonial Government
(SZ13, pp1-45), 8 Jan 1817 - 15 Dec 1823
Copies of correspondence to and from the Colonial Government
(SZ13, pp64-98), 14 Feb 1824 - 30 Dec 1825, [49]
Remarks on the country north of Bathurst. (A sketch which originally accompanied
these Remarks, and was moved to SZ563, appears at the beginning of this volume)
(SZ14, pp1-49), 10 Sep 1823, [131]
Letters to the Colonial Secretary
(SZ14, pp50-104), 1823 - 1825, [182]

- Memorandum Books: In addition to containing journal entries and bearings,
the following three volumes, which Cunningham termed ‘Memorandum Books’
include notes and information on a diverse range of subjects:
Journal (SZ15, pp1-66), 18 Apr - 30 May 1823, [238]
Bearings (SZ15, pp67-78, 84-151), 6 Dec 1822 - 30 May 1823, [280]
Notes concerning rations, equipment, personnel and horses
(SZ15, pp79-83), Apr - Jun 1823, [278]
Notes on animal and bird life
(SZ16, pp1-4, 96-103), 1823, [315, 365]
Excerpts from Gally Spurzheim’s Physiogonomical System
(SZ16, pp6-29), n d, [320]
Lists of heights of mountains and hills in England and Wales, Scotland,
and other parts of the world
(SZ16, pp33-39), n d, [332]
Journal
(SZ16, pp40-91, 94), 30 May - 30 Sep 1823, [336]
Account of provisions due and expended during an expedition in the Interior
(SZ16, pp92-93), Mar - Jul 1823, [363]
List of property left in store at Bathurst
(SZ16, p95), 19 Apr 1823, [365]
Extracts from Oxley’s journals, Apr 1817 - Oct 1818, relating to
"Variation of Compass observed in difft. pts. of the interior…"
(SZ16, pp104-105), n d, [369]
Bearings
(SZ16, pp106-121, 125-183), 31 May - 23 Jul 1823, [370]
"Copy of memorandum wrote on Parchment, enclosed in a Bottle,
and buried under a Tree in Hawkesbury Vale."
(SZ16, pp122-124), 9 Jun 1823, [379]
Miscellaneous notes
(SZ17, pp1-7), n d, [413]
Memorandum for Journal
(SZ17, p8), 29 Mar 1825, [417]
Journal
(SZ17, pp11-117), 11 Apr - 31 May 1825, [418]
Field Book
(SZ21), 29 Mar - 16 May 1825, [473]
Field Book
(SZ22), 17 May - 12 Jun 1825, [565]
Field Book
(SZ23), 31 Oct 1825 - 15 Jan 1826, [612]

REEL 36
- Summary of Colonial Records in the Colonial Secretary’s Office
(5/2331), 1788 - 1826

REEL 37
Proclamations, Government and General Orders, and related records
- Regulations to be observed by the Night Watch
(SZ985, pp1-4), 7 Aug 1789, [8]
- Instructions for constables of country districts and to Watchmen of the Town Divisions
(SZ985, pp5-7), 16 & 17 Nov 1796, [13]
- Government and General Orders
(ML 1/18b, SZ987 - SZ993), 11 Sep 1795 - 1 Jan 1810, [16]

REEL 38
- Government and General Orders
(SZ758), 5 Jan 1810 - 12 Nov 1814, [8]
- Government and General Orders and public accounts
(SZ759), 9 Nov 1814 - 26 Dec 1818, [289]
- Commissions of oaths relating to the appointment of George Molle as Lieutenant Governor
(SZ1044, ppI-VIII), 28 Mar 1814, [567]
- Government and General Orders
(SZ1044, pp1-125), 16 Jan 1819 - 22 Dec 1819, [573]
- Proclamations
(SZ1044, pp151-282), 1 Jan 1810 - 6 Mar 1819, [636]

REEL 39
- Digest of Proclamations, Government and General Orders
(SZ756), 1791 - 1821, [8]
- Proclamations, Government Orders, and Notices (with periodical
statements of receipts and disbursements from the Colonial Fund)
(4/424), 1 Dec 1821 - 19 Dec 1825, [539]
- Official extracts from the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
(these are chiefly proclamations and notices)
(4/426), 1810 - 1812, [792]
- Proclamation of Governor Ralph Darling constituting the Executive and Legislative Councils
(4/454, pp1-4), 20 Dec 1825, [891]

REEL 40
- William Bligh and others: Letters
(ML 1/51), 1803 - 1810, [9]
- Papers respecting the sanity of Capt Brodie of the Frederick
(ML 1/53, item 4), 25 Nov 1810, [210]
- Letter from Capt Piper to Gov Bligh regarding members of the crew of
the Cornwallis reaching Norfolk Island in an open boat
(ML A254, pp111-114), 12 Oct 1807, [222]
- Report of sales at auction by John Howe at Windsor
(ML C197), 29 Jun 1811, [227]
- Rules and regulations for the management of the Male
Orphan Institution, including minutes of meetings
(4/400), 1819 - 1823, [244]
- Minutes of the Special Committee of the Orphan Schools
(4/401), 1820, [306]
- Rules and regulations for the future management and improvement of the
Female Orphan Institution, including minutes of meetings
(4/403), 30 Jun 1818 - 15 Jan 1824, [323]
- Vouchers and weekly returns of the Government Storekeeper,
Hawkesbury, including a list of those receiving flood relief
(9/2673), Nov 1808 - Nov 1810, [438]
- Minutes of the Vice Admiralty Court of New South Wales
(9/2735), 25 Jun 1810 - 9 Feb 1820, [577]
- Memorial from Simeon Lord to Gov Bligh praying for the
release of Michael Robinson, 5 Dec 1806, with enclosures
(SZ997), 1799 - 1806, [638]
- Minute Book of the Philosophical Society of Australia
(SZ1007), 27 Jun 1821 - 14 Aug 1822, [689]
- Letters of thanks from the President, Directors and proprietors of the Bank of NSW
(SZ1049, ppI-III), 26 Nov 1823, [763]
- Copy of the Charter of the Bank of New South Wales
(SZ1049, pp1-38), 31 Oct 1823, [767]



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