Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 217
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Copies of letters to individuals and
organisations re land, 2 Jan 1827–17 Nov
1856
Copies of letters relating to requests for land,
refusals, grants, intrusion complaints, petitions
to survey, licence fees, forfeiture of runs and so
on.
NRS 944
Microfilm copy:
Reels 2298-2313,
[4/3555-92]
From 13 January 1849 to 26 May 1855 letters re
land outside the settled districts are in NRS 945.
Copies of letters sent re land outside the
settled districts, 13 Jan 1849–26 May 1855
Copies of letters to individuals relating to the
occupation of crown lands.
NRS 945
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2313,
[4/3591 part]
From June 1855 letters of this type are entered
in NRS 944.
Copies of letters to the Colonial
Storekeeper, 26 Dec 1836–5 Nov 1856
Copies of letters to this official who was
responsible for the provision for official use of
'stationery, printed forms, clothing and stores'
which were paid for from Colonial funds.
Copies of letters to the Commissariat, 6 Oct
1826–28 Aug 1879
This was an Imperial, not a Colonial,
department. It was concerned mainly with stores
and accounts, particularly those relating to
convict and military establishments. From 1874
the paymaster in charge at the naval depot was
responsible for expenses on the few remaining
Imperial convicts and later letters are addressed
to that officer.
Copies of letters sent: Confidential, 22 Dec
1830–3 Nov 1842
The subject matter is varied and includes
instructions and circulars of a confidential nature.
Includes instructions in 1834 to police
magistrates requiring them to furnish
confidential reports on crime, police, convicts
and any other matters in their districts which it
might be useful for the government to know
about.
NRS 954
Microfilm copy:
Reels 2989-2991,
[4/3639-44]
NRS 955
Microfilm copy:
Reels 2991-2995,
[4/3645-57]
NRS 961
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2997,
[4/3664]
There are also various letters to Captain
Maconochie about his private "pecuniary
transactions" and some to La Trobe in Port
Phillip.
Copies of letters sent to penal
establishments, 7 May 1849–15 Apr 1853
Most of the letters in this volume are to the
penal establishment at Cockatoo Island which
had been proclaimed in 1841 as a place of
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NRS 971
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2650,
[4/3730]
State Records Authority of New South Wales
