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Article: Townson of Varroville.(Reprint)(Biography)
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- Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Read before the Society 24 September 1946 (1)
Part 2
When Governor Bligh told Townson in 1807 that he might occupy his land but without any grant he also promised after much solicitation to allow him to purchase eight cows, four bullocks, twelve sheep, one pig and to give him the assistance of four convicts for eighteen months. (2) Thus Townson began to farm under great disadvantages, with no grant of land, too small a quantity of stock and scarcely any convict labourers. He wrote to England, asking that he and his brother might:
... be put on as favourable a footing as any who have come out; and
as Government ordered the Blaxlands to be ...