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Letters from family members in England

Land grant signed by Governor Lachlan Macquarie, assigning 30 acres of land in the District of Airds, to John White. Dated 17th August 1819. Manuscript note on verso, advising that the quit rent for the land had been redeemed on the 18th February 1834. The note is signed Wm. Macpherson, Coll. Int. Revenue, and dated 16th December 1836.
This land was sold to Thomas Moore on 4th October 1821 and became part of the Bishop's Farm property purchased by Stanley Reeve from the Trustees of the Estate of Thomas Moore in 1943.

Contains documents relating to the operation of the Clergy and School Lands Corporation. Includes The Bye Laws of the Trustees of Clergy and School Lands in NSW, Committee Reports, Commissioners report and a Report on Church and School Establishments of the Colony by Archdeacon T.H. Scott.

Jane Barker (nee Harden) kept these diaries describing her tour of Europe in 1829-1830, before her marriage to Bishop Frederic Barker.

Sermons preached by Samuel Marsden on specific Bible verses. Also includes some notes on soil types and agricultural methods in the colony. Item descriptions written by Janet Middleton.

The 1829 diary covers the Broughton family's voyage to Australia on the convict ship 'John', and the 1834 diary covers Broughton's voyage to England via Brazil.

Petition for a sum from the Colonial Funds for 'the enlargening of the church by the erection of a chancel'

Register of clergy, churches, visitations, glebes, burial grounds and school houses in the Archdeaconry of NSW in the Diocese of Calcutta

This volume belonged to Bishop Broughton, who signed his name on the fly-leaf