Invitation to a garden party at Government House
- AU AU-MTC 041/2-54
- Pièce
- 6th October
Fait partie de Correspondence received
From the Chamberlain for the Governor-General and the Countess of Dudley
Invitation to a garden party at Government House
Fait partie de Correspondence received
From the Chamberlain for the Governor-General and the Countess of Dudley
Invitation to an Evening Party at Government House
Fait partie de Correspondence received
From the A.D.C.-in-waiting for Governor and Lady Lygon
The series includes a handwritten genealogical chart, an original "invitation to a burial" dated 1784, a handwritten book of poems by N.M. Steel, and a school play written by Margaret Steel in 1918.
Steel, Margaret J.
Papers of Captain Henry Waterhouse
Manuscript Letter from Henry Waterhouse [England] to [Thomas Moore], 20 October 1804
Capt Henry Waterhouse to Mr. Thomas Moore, Builder, New South Wales, favored by Mr. Blaxland, 18 September 1806
Capt Henry Waterhouse to Thomas Moore, 24 April 1812
Instrument signed by Henry Waterhouse appointing Thomas Moore as *'my true and Lawful Attorney to act for me in all cases the same as if I myself was present", dated 23 April 1812
William Waterhouse, 6 Smith Square, Westminster, to Thomas Moore, 21 September, 1812, re death of his son Captain Henry Waterhouse
Copy of Henry Waterhouse's Will, dated 22 May, 1793, with annexed instrument [Grant of Administration] and Seal of the Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, appointing William Waterhouse as Executor, 14 August 1812
Indenture made in Sydney on 17th August 1797, between Philip Schaffer of Parramatta and Henry Waterhouse of Sydney for the sale of The Vineyard. Parramatta, "laying on the North side of the Creek leading to Parramatta" containing by estimation 140 acres of land, granted to Philip Schaffer by Crown Grant dated 5th April 1787
Copy of Land Grant, John Hunter to Captain Henry Waterhouse, for 4Vi acres in the District of Parramatta
Copy of Letter from Samuel Marsden and Rowland Hassall to Moore, with assessment of value of Waterhouse's farm at Parramatta
Documents relating to sale of cattle belonging to Waterhouse, and drafts sending proceeds to London
Land Grant, and appended wafer seal, Governor John Hunter to James Redman, District of Banks Town, 60 acres of land called Redman Farm dated 12 March 1800, with further notation on reverse of deed recording conveyance of same land by subsequent sale for £50 Sterling by Mary Marlborough to Thomas Moore, dated 6 December 1809
Payment Order dated 3rd May, 1813 & signed by John Berick, Paymaster 1 Batt. 73rd Regiment of Foot, drawn on the 1st Battalion, 73d Regiment of Foot, in Sydney, NSW, for pay owing to H.McArthur for £160 included in Paymaster's Monthly Estimate for services specified in the Order to the 24th April, 1813
Payment Order dated 3rd May, 1813, & signed by John Berick, Paymaster 1 Batt. 73rd Regiment of Foot, drawn on the 1st Battalion, 73d Regiment of Foot, in Sydney, NSW, for pay owing to Captain William Waterhouse for £165: 13: 6 included in Paymaster's Monthly Estimate for services specified in the Order to the 24th April, 1813
Waterhouse, Henry
Fait partie de Papers of Captain Henry Waterhouse
One A3 page photocopy of pages 2-3 from a "List of all Grants and Leases of Land registered in the Colonial Secretary's Office between the 28lh day of January 1788 and the 31st day of December 1809", in which is recorded in columns: (i) Grant No.; (ii) Date; (iii) Grantee or Lessee; (iv) Situation; (v) Extent in Acres & Roods; (vi) Term of Years; (vii) Amount of Quit Rent; (viii) By Whom Granted; (ix) Registration Book "A" & Page; (x) Remarks. Crown Grant No. 4 to Philip Schaffer was made on 22 February 1792, on the "north side of the Creek leading to Parramatta", area 140 Acres, Quit Rent being one shilling for every 50 acres, commencing after 5 years; registered in Book 1/A, page 2.
Henry Waterhouse's Will, 22nd May 1793
Fait partie de Papers of Captain Henry Waterhouse
Administration with will annexed of Captn Henry Waterhouse deceased, dated 14 day of August 1812.
"In the name of God - I Henry Waterhouse Lieutenant in His Majesty's Navy, living in bodily health and of sound and disposing mind and memory and surviving the perils and Dangers of the Seas and other uncertainties of this transitory Life (do for avoiding controversies after my decease make publish and declare this my last will and testament in manner following (that is to say) First I [recommend?] my Soul to God that gave it and my Body I commit to the Earth or Sea as it shall please God to order Mid as for [re all my worldly Estate I give bequeath and dispose thereof as followeth that is to say all my wages half pay prize money or Chattels and Estate whatsoever as shall be anyways since owing or [ —ing] unto me at the time of my [—] I do give & devise and bequeath
the same unto my Father William Waterhouse of Mount Street Cros—or Square And I do hereby nominate and appoint my friend Mr. Osborne Standert of the Navy Office Executor of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former and other wills Testaments and Deeds of Gifts by me at any time heretofore made and I do ordain and ratify these Presents to stand and be for and as my only last will and testament. In witness whereof to this my said will I hereon set my Hand and Seal the twenty second Day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and ninety three and in the thirty third year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the third over Great Britain."
[Signed] Henry Waterhouse (SS).
Signed sealed published and [?] in the presence of T. Dodd [and] John Morris"
"Extract by Adderley & Box, Proctors Doctors Commons"
"By Decree"
Appended to the parchment extract is a smaller parchment annexure being an extract from an instrument [a Grant of Administration by Charles, Archbishop of Canterbury] appointing William Waterhouse as Administrator of the estate of Henry Waterhouse, the original instrument, of which this is an extract, being given at London on the 14th August, 1812. [Dimensions: 200mm x 203mm]
Appended to the annexure is a wafer "Seal of the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury". [Dimensions of wafer Seal: 93mm x 79mm]
[Text of Grant of Administration]
Charles by Divine Providence Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan, To our well beloved in Christ, William Waterhouse the Father and [U—] Legatee named in the Will of Henry Waterhouse late of Smiths Square in the Parish of Saint John the Evangelist Westminster in the County of Middlesex and a Post Captain in the Royal Navy [de—] Greeting; Whereas the said Henry Waterhouse, having whilst living, and at the Time of his Death, Goods, Chattels or Credits, in diver Dioceses or Jurisdictions, did (as is alleged) in his Life-time rightly and duly make his last Will and Testament (hereunto annexed) and did therein name Osborne Standert Esquire, sole Executor, who hath renounced the Probate and execution thereof.
AND WE being desirous that the said Goods, Chattels and Credits may be well and faithfully administered, applied and dispose of the said Goods, Chattels and Credits, according to the Tenor and Effect of the said Will,; and first to pay the Debts of the said Deceased, which he did owe at the Time of his Death, and afterwards the Legacies contained and specified in the said Will, so far as such Goods, Chattels and Credits, will thereto extend and the law requires: You having been already sworn, well and faithfully to administer the same, and to make a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the said Goods, Chattels and Credits, and to exhibit the same into the Registry of our Prerogative Court of Canterbury, on or before the last Day of February ensuing, and also to render a just and true Account thereof, And we do by these Presents ordain, depute and constitute you Administrator of all and singular the Goods, Chattels and Credits of the said Deceased (with the said Will annexed.) Given at London the fourteenth Day of August in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve and in the Eighth Year of our Translation.
[Signed]
Geo. Gostting
Nath. Gostting
R.C. Creswell
Deputy Registrars
Extracted by Adderley & Box, Proctors Doctors Commons
"Sworn under One Hundred Pounds G.B."
Documents relating to the disposal of William Waterhouse's property in NSW
Fait partie de Papers of Captain Henry Waterhouse
Fait partie de Papers of Captain Henry Waterhouse
Indenture made in Sydney on 17th August 1797, between Philip Schaffer of Parramatta and Henry Waterhouse of Sydney for the sale of The Vineyard. Parramatta, "laying on the North side of the Creek leading to Parramatta" containing by estimation 140 acres of land, granted to Philip Schaffer by Crown Grant dated 5th April 1787. [Bearing the original signatures of "John McArthur" and
"William Neale" as witnesses, and of Philip Schaffer and William Waterhouse as vendor and purchaser. [Watermark: "A. Blackwell" on page 1, and a Crown and throne watermark on page 2].
The text of this Indenture is as follows:-
This Indenture made at Sydney in the County of Cumberland in New South Wales this Seventeenth day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and Ninety Seven, Between Philip Schaffer of Parramatta in the County aforesaid of the one part, & Henry Waterhouse Esq. Of Sydney in the County aforesaid of the other part Witnesseth that the said Philip Schaffer in consideration of Five Shillings of lawful Money of Great Britain to him in hand paid by the said Henry Waterhouse Esq. at or before the ensealing & delivery of these Presents, the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged & for the good Causes & Considerations him the said Philip Schaffer hereunto specially moving, has bargained & sold & by these presents doth bargain & sell unto the said Henry Waterhouse Esqr. All that the Messuage or Tenement known by the name of The Vineyard laying on the North side of the Creek leading to Parramatta, containing by estimation One Hundred & Forty Acres of land be the same more or less, now in the possession of the said Philip Schaffer, by virtue of a Grant from the Crown bearing date the Twenty Fifth Day of April in the year of Our Lord One thousand Seven Hundred & eighty seven; together with all and singular the Houses, Outhouses, Buildings, Gardens, Lands, Meadows, Commons, Pastures, Feedings, Woods, Underwoods, Hays, Paths, Waters, Watercourses, Privileges, Profits, Easements, Commodities, Advantages, Emoluments, Hereditaments & appurtenances whatsoever to the said One hundred & forty Acres of land belonging or appertaining, or with the same used or enjoyed, or accepted, reputed taken or known, as Part, Parcel or member thereof; or as belonging to the same or any Part thereof, & the Reversion & Reversions, Remainder & Remainders, Yearly & other Rents issues & profits thereof, & of every part & parcel thereof, To have & to hold the said Messuage or Tenement, Lands, Hereditaments & all & Singular other the Premises herein before mentioned or intended to be bargained & sold, & every Part & Parcel thereof, with their every of their Rights, Members, & Appurtenance unto the said Henry Waterhouse Esqr. His Executors,
Administrators & Assigns, from the day next before the day of the Date of these Presents, for and during & until the full end and term of One whole year from thence next ensuing & fully to be compleate & ended Yielding & paying therefore into the said Philip Schaffer His Heirs & Assigns the Yearly Rent of One Pepper Corn at the expiration of the said Term if the same shall be lawfully
demanded, To the Intent & Purpose that by Virtue of these Presents, & of the Statute for transferring uses into Possession, he the said Henry Waterhouse Esqr may be in the actual possession of the Premises, & be thereby enabled to take & accept a grant & Release of the Reversion & Inheritance of the Same Premises to him his Heirs & Assigns, to the uses, Intents & purposes thereof to be declared by another Indenture intended to bear date, the next Day after the Day of the Date hereof. In Witness whereof the Parties to these Presents their Hands and Seals have subscribed & set, the day & year first above written.
Sealed & Delivered (where no stamps are used or can be had) in the Presence of
John McArthur Philip Schaffer [Seal]
Wm. Neale W. Waterhouse [Seal]
Fait partie de Papers of Captain Henry Waterhouse
Copy of Land Grant, John Hunter to Captain Henry Waterhouse, for 4Vi acres in the District of Parramatta, "laying & situate in the District of Parramatta & bounded on the West side by a Creek which is the Eastern boundary of the Farm known by the name of the Vineyard", signed & sealed on the 17th October 1797. [Watermark 1805]
Land grant and appended wafer seal, for Redman Farm
Fait partie de Papers of Captain Henry Waterhouse
Land Grant, and appended wafer seal, Governor John Hunter to James Redman, District of Banks Town, 60 acres of land called Redman Farm dated 12 March 1800, with further notation on reverse of deed recording conveyance of same land by subsequent sale for £50 Sterling by Mary Marlborough to Thomas Moore, dated 6 December 1809, "for and in consideration of the Sum of Forty Pounds Sterling in hand paid by Tos. Moore of Sydney to Mary Morlbough [or Morlborough], Convey and Make over to the said Thos Moore his Heirs and Assigns the within allotment of Ground and Premises to be held by him his Heirs and Assigns for ever - In witness My hand and Seal this sixth Day of December in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Eight Hundred and Nine.
Witness present
Saml. Adams"
"Registered in the Secretary's Office".
This Grant by Captain John Hunter, dated 12th March 1800, bears the original signature of Governor Hunter and the signatures as witnesses of George Johnston and James Williamson.
A wafer seal is appended to the Grant with frayed blue cloth.