Collection 09: James Scott journal titled `Remarks on a passage Botnay [i.e. Botany] bay 1787', 13 M...
Collection 09: James Scott journal titled `Remarks on a passage Botnay [i.e. Botany] bay 1787', 13 M...
Collection 09: James Scott journal titled `Remarks on a passage Botnay [i.e. Botany] bay 1787', 13 May 1787-20 May 1792
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Date
13 May 1787-20 May 1792
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SAFE/DLMSQ 43
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Issue Copy
Digitised : This item has been preserved as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002, and digitised 2005.
Finding aids
Transcript available online - http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2014/D00007/a1142.html
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Collection 09: James Scott journal titled `Remarks on a passage Botnay [i.e. Botany] bay 1787', 13 May 1787-20 May 1792
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Digital order no:Album ID : 823437...
Object History
Sir William Dixson had acquired the manuscript from Angus & Robertson Ltd at an unknown date, probably between 1899 and 1910. It came to Angus & Robertson from the executors of the estate of Miss Russell, believed to have been the granddaughter of John Russell, private Marine, who travelled with the First Fleet on board the Friendship. The precise...
Published information
This journal was published in 1963, in transcription, by the Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales (see copy of the publication at DL Q96/13, microfilm copy available at CY 3614, frames 55-115). Another typescript transcription is available at DLMSQ 44, with index at DLMSQ 45.
Contextual Information
Source
Bequest of Sir William Dixson in 1952.
Administrative / Biographical history
James Scott, Sergeant of Marines, travelled to New South Wales on board the Prince of Wales. He was accompanied by his wife Jane who gave birth to a daughter, Elizabeth, during the voyage. A son, William Boxell, was born in Sydney. He was baptised on 1 July 1790.
Scott and his family left New South Wales on the Portsmouth, and arrived in England...
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SAFE/DLMSQ 43
Record Identifier
1JkmpX5Y
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1JkmpX5Y
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412920
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