1788
Page 33
3 Gilbert.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid.
21 Watts, in Phillip.
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid.
25 Ibid.
26 Shortland, in Phillip.
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid.
29 Ibid.
30 Hunter.
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid.
13. THE ABORIGINAL PEOPLE
1 Cook, April 1770.
2 Ibid.
3 Banks, 4 May 1770.
4 Banks, ‘House of Commons Inquiry, 1779’, Journal of the House of Commons, New South Wales State Library, RB F342.4206/1.
5 J. L. Kohen and Ronald Lambert, ‘Hunters and Fishers in the Sydney Region’, in Mulvaney and White (eds).
6 Letter from Phillip to Nepean, 5 July 1788, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
7 Phillip’s Instructions, 25 April 1787, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
8 Phillip’s Views on the Conduct of the Expedition and the Treatment of Convicts, February 1787, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
9 Letter from Phillip to Nepean, 5 July 1788, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
10 Worgan, Letter.
11 Bowes Smyth, January 1788.
12 Nagle.
13 Tench, Expedition, Ch. XI.
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 Tench, Settlement, Ch. XVII.
20 The Times, 2 December 1786.
21 White, May 1788.
22 Tench, Settlement, Ch. I.
23 Letter from Phillip to Sydney, 28 September 1788, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
24 Letter from Phillip to Sydney, 30 October 1788, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
25 Letter from Phillip to Stephens, 16 November 1788, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
26 Tench, Settlement, Ch. II.
27 Ibid., Ch. III.
28 Ibid.
29 Ibid.
30 Ibid.
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid.
33 Ibid.
34 J. L. Kohen, ‘First and Last Peoples: Aboriginal Sydney’, in Connell (ed.).
35 Letter from Phillip to Nepean, 13 February 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
36 Tench, Settlement, Ch. III.
37 Letter from Phillip to Sydney, 12 February 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
38 Tench, Settlement, Ch. IV.
39 Ibid.
14. CRISIS
1 Collins, English Colony in New South Wales.
2 White, May 1788.
3 Tench, Expedition, Ch. XIII.
4 White, July 1788.
5 Letter from Phillip to Sydney, 9 July 1788, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
6 Ibid.
7 Letter from Phillip to Sydney, 28 September 1788, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Letter from Phillip to Nepean, 9 July 1788, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
11 Letter from Phillip to Stephens, 10 July 1788, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
12 Letter from Phillip to Nepean, 28 September 1788, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
13 Ibid.
14 Mortality Bill, compiled by David Collins, 28 September 1788, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
15 Tench, Settlement, Ch. II.
16 Hunter.
17 Ibid.
18 Letter from Phillip to Sydney, 28 September 1788, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
19 Letter from Hunter to Stephens, 3 January 1789, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
20 Ibid.
21 Hunter.
22 Ibid.
23 Nagle.
24 Ibid.
25 Ibid.
26 Hunter.
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid.
29 Nagle.
30 Ibid.
31 Hunter.
32 Ibid.
33 Tench, Settlement, Ch. VI.
34 Collins, English Colony in New South Wales.
35 Ibid.
36 Ibid.
37 Tench, Settlement, Ch. VI.
38 The Times, 27 April 1790.
39 Collins, English Colony in New South Wales.
40 Letter from Sydney to the Admiralty, 29 April 1789, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
41 Superintendents on Board the Guardian, Whitehall, 24 August 1789, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
42 Letter from Grenville to the Admiralty, 8 June 1789, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
43 In a letter to Phillip on 20 June 1789 Nepean had said, ‘The Guardian will sail in about a fortnight,’ HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
44 Riou.
45 Clements.
46 Riou.
47 Clements.
48 Riou.
49 Clements.
50 Riou.
51 Clements.
52 Ibid.
53 Riou.
54 Clements.
55 Ibid.
56 Letter from Riou to the Admiralty, 25 December 1789, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
57 Ibid.
58 Clements.
59 Riou.
60 Letter from Riou to Stephens, 7 March 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
61 Clements.
62 Ibid.
63 The Times, 29 April 1790.
64 Letter from Riou to Stephens, 20 May 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
65 Letter from Lieutenant Shapcote, naval agent in charge of transports, to commissioners of the navy, 24 April 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
66 Letter from Riou to Stephens, 20 May 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
67 Ibid.
68 Letter from Grenville to Phillip, 16 November 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
69 Letter from Phillip to Grenville, 17 July 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
70 Letter from Phillip to Sydney, 11 April 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
15. A WAITING GAME
1 Letter from Phillip to Nepean, 12 February 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
2 Letter from Collins to his father, 23 March 1790, Mitchell Library, Sydney, microfilm CY2119.
3 Hunter.
4 Nagle.
5 Letter from Newton Fowell to John Fowell, 31 July 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
6 Letter from Ross to Phillip, 22 March 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
7 Nagle.
8 Ibid.
9 Nagle.
10 Letter from Grenville to Phillip, 24 December 1789, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
11 Tench, Settlement, Ch. VI.
12 Letter from Phillip to Sydney, 11 April 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
13 Tench, Settlement, Ch. VI.
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid.
16 Gentleman’s Magazine, January 1791.
17 Letter from White to Skill, 17 April 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
18 Letter from Johnson to Henry Fricker, 9 April 1790, Mitchell Library, Sydney, microfilm CY1397.
19 Letter from Newton Fowell to John Fowell, 31 July 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
20 Tench, Settlement, Ch. VI.
21 Ibid., Ch. VII.
22 Ibid.
23 Nagle.
24 Ibid.
25 Tench, Settlement, Ch. VIII.
16. ARRIVAL OF THE SECOND FLEET
1 The Times, 6 June 1788.
2 The Times, 30 September 1788.
3 Nicol.
4 Collins, English Colony in New South Wales.
5 Letter from Johnson to Thornton, July 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
6 Ibid.
7 Collins, English Colony in New South Wales.
8 Tench, Settlement, Ch. VII.
9 Letter from Phillip to Nepean, 13 July 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
10 Letter from Phillip to Grenville, 17 July 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
11 Letter from J
ohnson to Thornton, July 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
12 Ibid.
13 Letter from Hill to Wathen, 26 July 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
14 Ibid.
15 The Times, 18 November 1791.
16 Letter from Grenville to Phillip, 24 December 1789, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
17 Tench, Settlement, Ch. VII.
18 Ibid.
19 The Times, 9 June 1792.
20 Letter from Grenville to Phillip, 20 June 1789, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
21 Additional Instructions for Phillip, ‘Given at our Court at St James’, 20 August 1789, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
22 Ibid.
23 Tench, Settlement, Ch. X.
24 Letter from Phillip to Grenville, July 1791, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
17. ESCAPE
1 Gilbert.
2 Letter from Phillip to Nepean, 22 August 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
3 Letter from Phillip to Nepean, 23 August 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
4 Collins, English Colony in New South Wales.
5 Ibid.
6 Bradley, January 1790.
7 Collins, English Colony in New South Wales.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 Cobley.
12 Martin.
13 Scott, March 1791.
14 Martin.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 Tench, Settlement, Notes.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid., Ch. XVI.
18. THE DEPARTURE OF PHILLIP
1 Bradley, March 1791.
2 Nagle.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Bradley, October 1791.
6 Ibid.
7 Nagle.
8 Bradley, January 1792.
9 Nagle.
10 Letter from Bligh to Banks, 17 December 1791, Mitchell Library, Sydney, microfilm CY3004/274.
11 Bradley, April–May 1792.
12 Nagle.
13 Letter from Grenville to Phillip, 19 February 1791, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
14 Letter from Phillip to Sydney, 15 April 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
15 Letter from Phillip to Nepean, 15 April 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
16 Letter from Phillip to Sydney, 15 April 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
17 Letter from Grenville to Phillip, 15 February 1791, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
18 Letter from Dundas to Phillip, 15 May 1792, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
19 Collins, English Colony in New South Wales.
20 Letter from Phillip to Dundas, 26 October 1796, HRNSW, Vol. 2.
21 Mackaness.
22 Collins, English Colony in New South Wales.
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid.
25 Letter from Phillip to Nepean, 9 July 1788, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
26 Letter from Phillip to Nepean, 17 June 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
27 Letter from Phillip to Sydney, 13 February 1790, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
28 Letter from Grenville to Phillip, 19 February 1791, HRNSW, Vol. 1, Pt 2.
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING
PRIMARY SOURCES
Banks, Joseph, The Endeavour Journals of Joseph Banks, 1768–1771, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1963
Blackburn, David, Papers and Letters of David Blackburn, Mitchell Library, Sydney, MSS: ML Safe 1/120
Bowes Smyth, Arthur, A Journal of a Voyage from Portsmouth to New South Wales and China in the Lady Penrhyn, Merchantman William Cropton Sever, Commander, by Arthur Bowes Smyth, Surgeon, 1787–1789, P. G. Fidlon and R. J. Ryan (eds), Australian Documents Library, Sydney, 1979
Bradley, William, A Voyage to New South Wales, the Journal of Lieutenant William Bradley RN of HMS Sirius, 1786–1792, Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales in Association with Ure Smith, Sydney, 1969
de Brosses, Charles, Voyages to the Terra Australis, Da Capo Press, New York, 1967
Clark, Ralph, The Journal and Letters of Ralph Clark 1787–1792, Australian Documents Library in association with the Library of Australian History, Sydney, 1981
Clements, Thomas, Guardian: A Journal of the Proceedings on Board the Above Ship, Lieutenant Riou, Commander; as Delivered into the Admiralty Board by Mr. Clements, Charles Stalker, London, 1790
Collins, David, An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1, A. H. & A. W. Reed, Sydney, 1975 Collins Family Papers, Vol. 1, Mitchell Library, Sydney, MSS: ML 700
Colquhoun, Patrick, A Treatise on Police of Metropolitan London, Gillet, London, 1805
Cook, Captain James, The Journal of HMS Endeavour, 1768–1771, Rigby, Adelaide, 1977
Crittenden, Victor, The Voyage of the First Fleet 1787–1788, Taken from Contemporary Accounts, Mulini Press, Canberra, 1981
Currey, John, Report of the Select Committee on Convicts, 1799, Colony Press, Melbourne, 1982
Dalrymple, Alexander, An Account of the Discoveries Made in the South Pacific Ocean, 1767, Hordern House Rare Books for the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, 1996
Dampier, William, A New Voyage Around the World, Oxford, 1703
Davis, Memoranda by Convict Davis, Servant to Mr Foster, Superintendent of Convicts, Norfolk Island (original manuscript held in the Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, DLMS Q168)
Easty, John, Memorandum of the Transactions of a Voyage from England to Botany Bay 1787–1793: A First Fleet Journal, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1965
Fowell, Newton, The Sirius Letters: The Complete Letters of Newton Fowell, Midshipman and Lieutenant Aboard the Sirius Flagship of the First Fleet on its Voyage to New South Wales, 1788–1790, Fairfax, Sydney, 1988
George III, George III 1738–1820: The Correspondence of King George the Third, Sir John Fortescue (ed.), Macmillan, London, 1928
Gilbert, Thomas, Commander of the Charlotte, Voyage from New South Wales to Canton, in the Year 1788: With Views of the Islands Discovered, J. Debrett, London, 1789
Howard, John, The State of Prisons in England and Wales: With Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals, William Eyres, Warrington, 1777
Hunter, John, An Historic Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, Historical Records of Australia, Series I, Vols 1–10
Johnson, Reverend Richard, Some Letters of Rev. Richard Johnson, BA, First Chaplain of New South Wales, collected and edited by George Mackaness, Review, Dubbo, New South Wales, 1978
King, Philip Gidley, The Journal of Philip Gidley King: Lieutenant R.N. 1787–1790, Australian Documents Library, Sydney, 1980
Martin, James, James Martin’s Memorandums (part of the Bentham Papers held in the Special Collections of London University), republished in Mike Walker, A Long Way Home
Nagle, Jacob, The Nagle Journal: A Diary of the Life of Jacob Nagle, Sailor, from the Year 1775 to 1841, J. C. Dann (ed.), Weidenfeld and Nicolson, New York, 1988
Nicol, John, The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner, Farrer and Rinehard, London, 1936 (reprinted in R. J. Ryan, The Second Fleet Convicts)
O’Reilly, John Boyle, Moondyne, George Robertson, Sydney, 1880
Parker, Ann, A Voyage Around the World in the Gorgon, Man of War, Debrett, London, 1795
Phillip, Arthur, The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay: With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island: Compiled from Authentic Papers which have been Obtained from Several Departments, to which are Added, the Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball and Capt. Marshall, with an Account of their New Discoveries, Hutchinson of Australia, Richmond, Victoria, 1982
Riou, Edward, The Journal of the Proceedings on Board His Majesty’s Ship the Guardian, Commanded by Lieutenant Riou, Bound for Botany Bay, from the 22nd of December, 1789, to the 15th of January, 1790, Ridgeway, London, 1790
Scott, James, Remarks on a Passage to Botany Bay, 1787–1792: A First Fleet Journal, Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales in association with Angus
& Robertson, Sydney, 1963
Shortland, John Willoughby, The Shortland Family of the Royal Navy and Australasia with Particular Reference to the ‘First Fleet’, John Willoughby Shortland, Miranda, NSW, c. 2003
Spain, Edward, The Journal of Edward Spain, Merchant Seaman and Sometimes Warrant Officer in the Royal Navy; Describing the Life at Sea During the American Revolution and the Wars with France, St Marks Press, Bankstown, NSW, 1989
Tench, Watkin, A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales, including an Accurate Description of the Situation of the Colony, G. Nicol and J. Sewell, London, 1793
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay: With an Account of New South Wales. Its Productions, Inhabitants. Etc: to which is Subjoined a List of Civil and Military Establishments at Port Jackson, Debrett, London, 1789 (reprinted by Angus & Robertson, in association with the Royal Australian Historical Society, Sydney, 1961)
Walpole, Sir Horace, Letters of Sir Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Oxford, to Sir Horace Mann, Vol. 3, Lord Dover (ed.), Dearborn, New York, 1833
Waterhouse, William, Papers: Letters Received from William Waterhouse, Mitchell Library, Sydney, MSS 6544
White, John, John White: Surgeon General to the First Fleet, Debrett, London, 1790 (reprinted by Australian Medical Publishing, Sydney, 1933)
Worgan, George B., Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon, including Letter, 12–18 June and Journal (January 20–July 11, 1788), Library Council of New South Wales in association with the Library of Australian History, Sydney, 1978
SECONDARY SOURCES
Bateson, Charles, The Convict Ships 1787–1868, Reed, Sydney, 1974
Beaglehole, John Cawte, Exploration of the Pacific, A & C Black, London, 1966
Bonwick, James, Australia’s First Preacher: The Reverend Richard Johnson, First Chaplain of New South Wales, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London, 1898
Chapman, Don, 1788: The People of the First Fleet, Doubleday, Sydney, 1986
Clark, Manning, A History of Australia, Vol. 1, ‘From the Earliest Times to the Age of Macquarie’, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1962
Cobley, John, The Crimes of the First Fleet Convicts, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1970
Connell, John (ed.), Sydney: The Emergence of a Global City, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000
Eldershaw, M. Barnard, Phillip of Australia: An Account of the Settlement of Sydney Cove 1788–92, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1977
Gillen, Mollie, The Search for John Small, First Fleeter, Library of Australian History, Sydney, 1985
Hall, Jerome, Theft, Law and Society, Little Brown, Michigan, 1937
Henderson, Graeme, The Sirius Past and Present, Collins, Sydney, 1988
Holden, Robert, Orphans of History: The Forgotten Children of the First Fleet, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2000