Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 205
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Contemporary Colonial Secretary's Indexes and Registers, 1826–
1900, NRS 922 available in State Records' Reading Rooms
Index to tickets of exemption from government labor, 1827–32 is
available on State Records' website
Convicts and Employers (NSW) Index, 1828, 1832–37, Jan 1838–
Jan 1844. Compiled by Pastkeys
17.3 Western Port Settlement
Colonial Secretary's
records
Letters received, 1826–1982
NRS 905
Convicts selected for Western Port
Settlement
CSIL 26/7233 and
26/7241 in
[4/1907]
Special bundles, 1826–1982
NRS 906
Daily order book of the Commandant,
11 Dec 1826–19 Feb 1828
[4/2061.2]
Quantity: 1 volume
Copies of letters to Western Port, 4 Nov
1826–23 Jan 1828
Copies of letters to the Commandant, beginning
with instructions to Captain Wright, dated 4 Nov
1826, to establish a settlement.
NRS 1007
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2649,
[4/3966]
At the back of this volume are copies of letters
received from the Commandant from his first
report of 26 Dec 1826 to his last dated 12 Nov
1827 after which date the settlement was
abandoned.
Establishments'
records
Copies of letters sent and received, 1826–
28
The volumes have letters sent in the front and
letters received in the back. They start with
Wright's instructions to form the settlement and
go up to the time the settlement was abandoned.
NRS 4225
Microfilm copy:
Reels 903, 2721,
[4/456, 4/7032]
Included is correspondence from the Colonial
Secretary and Commissariat Department to the
Commandant together with lists of convicts sent,
manifests, and way bills of stores and cargo
shipped on various vessels for the settlement,
memoranda of slop clothing for the convicts,
invoices of medicines supplied, lists of livestock
despatched and plants and seeds from the
Botanic Gardens in Sydney.
There are lists of convicts 1826–28 [4/7032;
Reel 903] which provide details of their names,
ship of arrival in New South Wales, original
conviction (where, when, and sentence), trade,
age, native place, height, complexion, colour of
hair and eyes, date when last received slop
clothing, and occasionally character.
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