NRS-983 | Copies of letters to Moreton Bay

Copies of letters to the Commandant and other officers in the penal settlement (to 1842), and later letters to the Police Magistrate, other officials and individuals in the settlement. From April 1853 they are addressed to the Government Resident. The first volume begins with a letter to Lieutenant H. Miller of the 40th Regiment, dated 27 August 1824, notifying him of his appointment as military Commandant of the settlement to be established, mainly to replace Port Macquarie as a penal settlement. The settlement ceased to be used as a penal station in 1839 but the correspondence continues on miscellaneous matters concerning it until August 1853. Following page 272 in the volume for 1824-31 is a list of convicts transported to Moreton Bay. This shows for each convict his original conviction including when and where he was sentenced; his trade or calling; name; the vessel he came by; the number on the folio; whom he replaced or was replaced by; his colonial conviction; where, by whom, when, sentenced; ship transported to Moreton Bay by; date returned; remarks. There is an index to this list in the front of the volume.(4/3794-97; microfilm copy 1824-25 SR Reel 6019, 1824-53 SR Reels 749-750). 4 vols. *ARK (1824-25) Note:This description is based on Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.