EMPIRE AND COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION

The Papers of Lachlan Macquaire (1762-1804) and Family from the State Library of New South Wales

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Note on the description: All titles between single inverted commas indicate Lachlan Macquarie’s own titles.

Journals, Diaries, Memoranda and Letters 1787-1824

REEL 1

15 December 1787 - 24 March 1792
‘Journal - No. 1 / Kept by L. Macquarie / commencing 15th Decr. 1787.’
Includes: recruiting in Scotland for 77th Regiment, 15 Dec 1787 - 21 Jan 1788; voyage to Bombay including meeting Lieutenant William Bligh at Cape of Good Hope, 13, 18 June 1788; social and military life in Bombay including active service against Tippoo Sahib. Z A768-2

26 March 1792 - 28 December 1794
‘Journal - No. 2 / Kept by L. Macquarie / Commencing 26th March 1792.’
Includes: social and military activities in Bombay; courtship of, and marriage to, Jane Jarvis, 8 Sept 1793; efforts to gain promotion; pleasure cruise to Goa, 29 Mar - 8 Apr 1794; concern for his brother Charles’ military career and prospects, 29 Dec 1793, Sept 1794; voyage to Calicut, 20-28 Dec 1794. Z A768-2

29 December 1794 - 6 May 1796, 3-22 May 1797, 1-9 Jan 1798, 30 May - 27 Sept 1799
‘Journal - No. 3 / Kept by L. Macquarie / Commencing at Calicut in the Province / of Malabar, 29th December 1794.’
Includes: the siege of Cochin, 1 Sept - 20 Oct 1795; his wife’s illness; siege of Columbo, 10-16 Feb 1796; capture and subsequent governorship of Point de Galle, 22 Feb - 18 Mar 1796; expedition against the Pyche Rajah, 3-14 May 1797; meetings with Lord and Lady Clive at Madras, 12, 14, 24 June 1799; journey through Bengal, 27 June - 27 Sept 1799. Z A769-1

28 September - 5 December 1799, 28 April 1801 - 11 September 1801
‘Journal - No. 4 / Kept by L. Macquarie / Commencing 28th Septr. 1799; & / Ending 11th of Septr. 1801.’
Includes: meetings with Lord Clive, 22, 23 Oct 1799; visit to Surat as confidential military secretary to Governor Duncan of Bombay, 28 Apr - 9 July 1800; appointment as deputy-adjutant-general to the army commanded by General Baird for service against the French in Egypt, 31 Mar 1801; voyage to the Red Sea and campaign in Egypt, 6 Apr 1800 - 11 Sept 1801; reunion with his brother Charles in Alexandria,
1-10 Sept 1801. Z A769-1

REEL 2

10 April 1799 - 5 May 1799
‘Major Macquarie’s / Journal of the / Campaign & Capture / of Seringapatam.’
Includes: the operations of the Bombay Army under the command of Lieutenant-General James Stuart, as part of the Grand Army commanded by Lieutenant-General George Harris, during the campaign which resulted in the capture of Seringapatam and the death of Tippoo Sahib, 10 April - 5 May 1799. Also includes ‘Notes for Journal’, 14 Feb 1799 - 1 June 1799, and copies of the General Returns of Killed, Wounded and Missing for both armies and extracts from the General Orders issued by Generals Harris and Stuart on 5 May 1799. Z A769-2

10 April 1799 - 5 May 1799
‘Journal of the Operations of the Bombay Army under / the immediate command of General Stuart from forming / the junction with General Floyd’s Detachment at Periapatam on the / 10th April and afterwards with the Grand Army at Seringapatam / on the 14th April.’
Records the campaign and capture of Seringapatam. Entries are similar to those at Z A769-2. Z A769-3

12 September 1801 - 14 July 1804
‘Journal - No. 5 / Kept by L. Macquarie / Commencing 12 Sept. 1801; & / Ending the 14th July 1804.’
Includes: reunion with his brother Charles in Alexandria, 24 Sept - 6 Oct 1801; appointment as Deputy-Adjutant General of all British forces in Egypt, 8 Dec 1801; promotion to Major in the 86th Regiment, 11 Feb 1802; journey from Alexandria to Suez, 12-28 May 1802; voyage to Bombay 5 June - 2 July 1802; promotion to brevet lieutenant-colonel
6 Sept 1802; resignation of command of the 86th Regiment, 15 Nov 1802; Voyage to England via Capetown and St Helena, 6 Jan - 7 May 1803; presentation to King George III, 18 May 1803 and Queen Charlotte, 26 May 1803; visit to Cheltenham and Bath to take the waters, 18 June - 6 July 1803; appointment as Assistant-Adjutant-General of the London District 15 July 1803; promotion to lieutenant-colonel on the staff 17 Nov 1803; social and military life in London; journey to the Island of Mull and reunion with his mother and his uncle, Maclaine of Lochbuy, on his death bed, 17 June - 14 July 1804. Z A770

15 July 1804 - 16 March 1807
Journal
Includes: taking possession of his recently acquired estate on Mull,
16 July 1804; tour of north eastern Scotland, 27 July - 11 Aug 1804; return to London, 27 Aug - 16 Sept 1804; proposal of marriage to Elizabeth Campbell of Airds, 26 Mar 1805; painting of his portrait by John Opie, 20 Apr 1805; voyage to Bombay, 25 Apr - 11 Aug 1805; appointment as Lieutenant Colonel of the 73rd Regiment, 25 Oct 1805; taking command of the station at Dohud, 1 Dec 1805 - 22 Jan 1806.
Z A770

18 March 1807 - 17 October 1807
‘Journal / Commencing at Bombay / on Wednesday 18th of / March 1807 - by / Lt. Colonel McQuarie / H.M. 73rd Reg.t.’
Includes: return to England; voyage to the Persian Gulf, 19 Mar - 22 Apr 1807; journey overland to St Petersburg via Baghdad, Persia and Moscow, 28 Apr - 6 Sep 1807; voyage to Yarmouth via the Baltic Sea and Copenhagen, 11 Sep - 16 Oct 1807. Z A771

REEL 3

24 December 1782 - 22 August 1783, 5 May 1795, 22 December 1808-1823
1 ‘Memorandums’, 22 Dec 1808 - 12 Aug 1814 (pp. 1-82)
Includes: appointment as Governor of N S W, 27 Apr 1809; voyage to Sydney, 22 May 1809 - 28 Dec 1809; swearing in as Governor, 1 Jan 1810; shipping arrivals and departures; executions; official duties and social life; visits to outlying townships; promotion to Colonel, 2 July 1811; promotion to Brigadier-General, 25 Oct 1812; birth of his son, 28 Mar 1814.

2 Letters to D’Arcy Wentworth, 17 Mar 1814 - 27 May 1816 (pp. 82 a-f) Includes: payments from Police Fund and admissions to General Hospital.

3a List of persons dining at Government House, 28 Mar 1817 (p. 83)
b Note re his son’s birthday present, 28 Mar 1818 (p. 84)
c Note re fixing prices of wheat, meat and corn, 24 Sept 1813 (p. 85a).

4 ‘Notes and Memorandums 1817-1818’, 26 July 1817 - 4 Nov 1817 (pp. 86a-130).
Includes: laying of foundation stone of St Mathew’s Church, Windsor 11, 13 Oct 1817; official duties and social life; visits to outlying townships; shipping arrivals and departures; executions.
‘Memorandums’, 22 Jan 1819 - 26 Oct 1822 (pp. 131a-192).
Includes: lists of people dining at Government House, passenger list for Prince Leopold to Van Diemen’s Land, 8 Mar 1819; list of children in Native Institution 28 Dec 1819; reports on building works in progress in Sydney 28 Sept - 23 Nov 1820; ‘Factions and Dissatisfied in N S W on 30 Nov 1821’.
Itineraries of ‘The Grand Tour of Europe’, 1822-23 (pp. 193-208).
Report on campaign in India, 24 Dec 1782. Extract from General
Orders, 22 Aug 1783. Copy of Jane Macquarie’s will, 5 May 1795. Copies of inscriptions on tombs of Jane and Lachlan Macquarie
(pp. 209-223). Z A772

10 April 1816 - 1 July 1818
‘The Governor’s Diary & Memorandum Book / Commencing on and / from Wednesday the 10th Day / of April 1816 / At / Sydney in N.S. Wales.’
Includes: harrying and punishment of hostile Aborigines, 10 Apr, 7,
25 May 1816; flood at Hawkesbury, 31 May, 2, 3 June 1816; official duties and social life; shipping arrivals and departures; executions; public building works; payments from Police Fund; completion of Mrs Macquarie’s Road, 13 June 1816; piratical seizure of Government boat William Cossar, 7-12 July 1817; selection of first settlers for Bathurst,
2 Feb, 23 April 1818. Z A773

9 July 1818 - 28 February 1820
‘New South Wales / The Governor’s / Diary and Memorandum Book / Commencing on Thursday / the 1st of July 1818 and / Ending on 28th Feb. 1820.’
Includes: shipping arrivals and departures; public building works; payments from the Police Fund; executions; flooding of Hawkesbury and Nepean Rivers, 9 June 1819; arrival of Commissioner Bigge,
26 Sept 1819; visit of French corvette L’Uranie commanded by Louis de Freycinet, 18 Nov - 26 Dec 1819; copy of a letter to Mrs Minchin, 27 Oct 1821. Z A774

1 March - 16 October 1820, 6 November 1820 - 8 March 1821
Includes: shipping arrivals and departures; public building works; payments from the Police Fund; executions; official duties and social life; visits of Imperial Russian ships, 2-27 Mar 1820, 11 Apr - 19 May 1820, 21 Sept - 12 Nov 1820; meetings with Commissioner Bigge; marking out new township of Campbell-Town, 30 Nov - 1 Dec 1820; acceptance of his resignation by Earl Bathurst, 31 Dec 1820; departure of Commissioner Bigge for England, 8-14 Feb 1821. Z A774

11 March - 4 April 1821, 12 July - 1 November 1821, 21 November - 15 December 1821, 26 December 1821 - 9 January 1822, 17 January - 12 February 1822
‘New South Wales / The Governor’s Diary and / Memorandum Book / Commencing on Sunday / the 11th March 1821 and / Ending on.’
Includes: shipping arrivals and departures; executions; official duties and social life; tours to outlying settlements and townships; departure of Captain Allman’s expedition to Port Macquarie, 17-21 March 1821; resignation as Governor, 1 Dec 1821; request by inhabitants of Hawkesbury for his portrait, 4 Jan 1822; departure for England, 12 Feb 1822. Z A774

REEL 4

12 February 1822 - 13 July 1822
‘Journal / of / A Voyage from / New South Wales / to England / In 1822.’
Includes: departure from Sydney in Surrey including lists of passengers, crew and livestock, 12-15 February 1822; visit to St Salvador, 5-11 May 1822; arrival in London, 5 July 1822. Z A775

25 October 1822 - 29 July 1823
‘Journal / Commencing at London / on 30th November 1822.’
Records tour of Europe with Mrs Macquarie and Lachlan, the younger: France, 4 Dec - 15 Mar 1822; Italy, 15 Mar - 12 June 1823; Switzerland, 12-24 June 1823; France, 24 June - 29 July 1823. Includes: wintering in Hyeres, 15 Jan - 9 Mar 1823; 12 days sojourn at Fontainbleau answering Commissioner Bigge’s ‘false, vindictive and malicious report on N.S. Wales’, 2-14 July 1823.
‘Memorandums on Various Subjects in 1822 & 1823’
Includes: agreements for the hire of lodgings and servants, 25 Oct 1822 - 4 May 1823. Z A776-1

15 April 1824 - 11 June 1824
‘Journal / Commencing / on Thursday / 15 Apr. 1824.’
Records visit to London from the Island of Mull: meeting with Earl Bathurst to arrange pension, 26 Apr 1824; meeting with Robert Peel to discuss transportation to N S W, 15 May 1824; refusal of his request for a title, 25 May 1824; meeting with Lord Palmerston, 27 May 1824; his last illness, 11 June 1824. Z A776-2

4 November 1811 - 6 January 1812
‘Journal to and from Van Diemen’s / Land to Sydney in N.S.Wales.’
Records voyage to Hobart on Lady Nelson; journey overland to Port Dalrymple; voyage to Port Stephens and Newcastle. Z A777

6 November 1810 - 15 January 1811
‘Journal of a Tour / of Governor Macquarie’s / first Inspection of the / Interior of the Colony / Commencing on Tuesday / the 6th Novr. 1810.’
Records journey to inspect farms, towns and countryside in the outlying districts of Sydney including Parramatta, Cowpastures, Hawkesbury, Richmond Terrace, Green Hills, Castle Hill, Botany Bay and the sites for the new townships of Liverpool, Windsor, Richmond, Castlereagh, Pitt-Town and Wilberforce. Z A778

REEL 5

25 April 1815 - 19 May 1815
‘Tour to the New Discovered / Country in April 1815.’
Records journey to the country west of the Blue Mountains including the Vale of Clwydd, Macquarie Plains, Bathurst Plains and the site for the new town of Bathurst. Z A779

4 October 1815 - 12 October 1815
‘Journal of a Tour / made by Govr. Macquarie / and Suite into / the Interior / parts of the Colony of / N.S.Wales in / Octr. 1815.’
Records journey to the Cowpastures and other parts of the interior including Natai Mountains, Bargo, Kobbatty Hills, Emu Plains and Rooty Hill. Z A780

27 July 1818 - 9 August 1818
‘Journal to and from Newcastle.’
Records voyage to Newcastle on Elizabeth Henrietta to ascertain the resources and capabilities of the settlement and to explore the three branches of the Hunter River. Z A781
16 October 1820 - 6 November 1820
‘Journal / of / A Tour of Inspection / to the Western and / Southern Countries / some time since / discovered by Chas. / Throsby Esqr. - / In Octr. & Novr. 1820 / L.M.’
Records journey to the country south west of the Cowpastures including Mittagong, Wallandilly, Breadalbane Plains, Goulburn Plains, Bathurst Lake and Lake George. Z A782

15 December 1821 - 26 December 1821
‘Journal / of / A Tour of Inspection / to Bathurst / in Decr. 1821.’
Records journey to Bathurst via the Blue Mountains. Z A783

4 April 1821 - 12 July 1821
‘Journal / of / A Voyage and Tour / of Inspection to / Van Diemen’s Land / 1821.’
Records voyage to Hobart on Midas; overland journey to Port Dalrymple, Launceston and George Town; selection of sites for new townships; return to Sydney on Caroline. Z A784

1 November 1821 - 21 November 1821
‘Journal / of / A Voyage and Tour / of Inspection - from / Port Jackson to the / Settlements of Port Macquarie / and Newcastle / In November 1821.’
Records voyage to the Northern Settlements on Elizabeth Henrietta; selection of site for town of Port Macquarie; exploration of Hastings River; journey by river and land to Wallis’ Plains. Z A785

9 January 1822 - 17 January 1822
‘Journal / of a / Tour to the Cow Pastures / and / Illawarra - / - in January 1822.’
Records journey to inspect farms, government stock and countryside including Cawdor, Camden, Liverpool Campbell-Town and Mt Brisbane. Z A786

Correspondence. Copies of letters sent, 1793-1810, and 1822-1823. Letters received and copies of letters sent, 1809-1822.
Z A787-Z A797.

REEL 6

31 August 1793 - 25 October 1794
‘Letter Book / of Private and Familiar correspondence / Commencing at Bombay on the / 31st Day of August 1793.’
Copies in his own hand of letters sent by Lachlan Macquarie. Correspondents include Major-General Sir Robert Abercromby, Ensign George Jarvis, Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy, General Allan Maclean, Ensign Charles Macquarie, Lieutenant-Colonel M P Stirling. Z A787

1 November 1794 - 16 May 1796
Letterbook.
Copies in his own hand of letters sent by Lachlan Macquarie. Correspondents include Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Auchmutty, Major- General James Balfour, Major James Dunlop, Lieutenant George Jarvis, Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy. Z A788

16 June 1796 - 28 July 1797
‘Letter Book / Commencing 16th June 1796 and / Ending 28th July 1797.’
Copies in his own hand of letters sent by Lachlan Macquarie. Correspondents include Colin Anderson, James Drummond, John Forbes, Lieutenant George Jarvis, Mrs Morley, Lestock Wilson. Pencil note by Elizabeth Macquarie, 15 Sept 1824, p.154b. Z A789

REEL 7

3 August 1797 - 22 November 1802
Letterbook.
Copies in his own hand of letters sent by Lachlan Macquarie. Correspondents include Major-General David Baird, Messrs Goslings & Sharpe, Murdoch Maclaine of Lochbuy, Captain Charles Macquarie, James Morley, Mrs Morley. Z A790

13 September 1802 - 4 December 1802
Letterbook.
Copies in his own hand of letters sent by Lachlan Macquarie. Correspondents include Captain John Campbell, Messrs Cox & Greenwood, Lieutenant-Colonel James Dunlop, Lieutenant-General Grinfield. Z A791

22 November 1802 - 14 February 1804
Letterbook.
Copies in his own hand of letters sent by Lachlan Macquarie. Correspondents include Colonel William Cook, Jonathon Duncan, Governor of Bombay, and the Duke of York. Z A792

1 March 1804 - 15 May 1807
Letterbook.
Copies in his own hand of letters sent by Lachlan Macquarie. Correspondents include the Earl of Breadalbane, Sir John Campbell of Airds, Major-General Harry Calvert, Messrs Forbes & Co, Dr Donald Maclaine, Elizabeth Macquarie. Also, a list of commissions for friends and relatives in England pp. 68a-69a. Z A793

REEL 8

22 January 1807 - 23 April 1807
Letterbook.
Copies in his own hand of letters sent by Lachlan Macquarie. Correspondents include General Lord Lake, Colonel William Wallace, Francis Warden. Z A794

1 December 1807 - 31 March 1809
‘Copies of letters etc. / From 1st Dec. 1807 to / 31st March 1809.’
Copies in his own hand of letters sent by Lachlan Macquarie. Correspondents include General Sir David Dundas, William Page, the Duke of York. Z A795

15 August 1808 - 10 May 1810
‘Copies of Private Letters / written by Colonel L. Macquarie / 73rd Regiment / Commencing on 15th August 1808; and Ending …’
Copies in his own hand of letters sent by Lachlan Macquarie. Correspondents include George Canning, Viscount Castlereagh, Edward Cooke, Dugald McTavish. Z A796

12 May 1809 - 16 June 1822
Letters received and copies of letters sent, 1809-22.
Letters received 12 May 1809 - 6 June 1820. Correspondents
include George Canning, Viscount Castlereagh, James Drummond, John Oxley, William Wilberforce, pp.1-2, 9-12, 27-114, 125-128, 151-166, 171-176.
2 Copies of letters sent 1 April 1817 - 18 May 1818. Correspondents include Earl Bathurst, James Drummond and Rev Samuel Marsden pp.25-26, 115-124, 129-132, 141-148.
Copy of letter sent to Sir Thomas Brisbane, 16 June 1822, pp.179-180. Z A797

Commissions 1809. Address 1821. Narratives by John Oxley, Richard Lundin (?) and George Evans 1817-1821.
Z A798 - Z A802

8 May 1809
Commission as Governor of New South Wales.
A true copy, sealed by Thomas Campbell, of Macquarie’s commission appointing him Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief over the Territory of New South Wales. Z A798

9 April 1809 - 14 May 1809
‘Commissions / as Governor / & Instructions / received in England / in May 1809.’
Contains Macquarie’s commission as Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief in and over the Territory of New South Wales, 8 May 1809 with covering letter from Viscount Castlereagh, 13 May 1809; a copy of the commission; Instructions for his guidance in the government of N S W,
9 Apr 1809, 14 May 1809; list of fees upon grants of land, May 1809.
Z A799

13 July 1821
Address presented to Lachlan Macquarie on his return from Van Diemen’s Land by the Inhabitants of N S W.
Congratulates Macquarie on his safe return to Sydney and records the hope that his services to the colony will receive the appreciation of the King. Z A800

29 January 1821
‘Remarks on the Country / between / Bathurst & Lake George / including the Country / South West of the / Cowpastures / 1820’ by John Oxley.
Includes: topographical and other matters recorded by John Oxley, Surveyor-General of N S W, during a tour with Lachlan Macquarie of the country situated between Bathurst and Lake George, 17 Oct 1820 -
4 Nov 1820. A Prefatory letter by Oxley to Macquarie. Inscribed on the first page in Macquarie’s hand ‘Recd on 3 Feby 1821 with Journal and Map of Tour of Lake George!’ A pencil note by Hugh Wright, Mitchell Librarian, states ‘Map missing from the papers when bought, H W 1914’. Z A801

25 February 1817
‘Narrative of a voyage from New South / Wales in 1812-13’ probably by Lieutenant Richard Lundin.
An account of the voyage of the Isabella which left Sydney on 4 Dec 1812 for England but was wrecked in the Falkland Islands. The eventual rescue of the crew and passengers forms the major part of the narrative. Written by a grenadier officer, probably Lieutenant Richard Lundin of the 73rd Regiment who had been granted leave of absence by Macquarie to return to England and sailed on the Isabella. Z A802

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