Notebook and letters.

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Notebook and letters.

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Contents include accounts of tours by Macquarie, 1815; Oxley's first expedition 1817; and, at back a fair copy of G.W. Evans' letter to Macquarie, 13 May -12 June 1815. Detailed contents list with volume. One of the pages at the back bears the inscription 'Evan's Journal' but this appears to have been added later. Together with A.L.S. Rev. A.C. Geikie to Surveyor General, from Bathurst, 30 June 1888 re notebook and enquiring about Evans, Bathurst and the Blue Mountains road; with reply, 3 July 1888 and A.L.S.K.F. Suttor to J.R. Tyrrell, from Vaucluse, 28 Mar. 19--? re notebook.

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Oxley, John, 1783-1828

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John Oxley (1783-1828), naval officer, surveyer and explorer, was granted 600 acres at Camden in 1810, known as Kirkham Place. This grant was cancelled in 1815 and a new deed issued increasing the land to 1,000 acres. In 1855 a grant of 5,000 acres was made to his 2 sons, John Norton Oxley and Henry Molesworth Oxley, at Wingecarribee in recognition of their father's work. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225759585 From t...