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Item 1-2: Commissions to Lieutenant-Colonel William Paterson, 9 June 1801 and 1 October 1804

Item 1-2: Commissions to Lieutenant-Colonel William Paterson, 9 June 1801 and 1 October 1804

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Item 1-2: Commissions to Lieutenant-Colonel William Paterson, 9 June 1801 and 1 October 1804

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Full title

Item 1-2: Commissions to Lieutenant-Colonel William Paterson, 9 June 1801 and 1 October 1804

Date

1801, 1804

Call Numbers

MLMSS 7421

Record Identifier

9gkd3l49

Reference Code

441898
Physical Description

Contents

1 box, 1 folder - 0.05 Meters

Textual Records - (manuscript)

Other Descriptions

Level of description

Item

Access and use

Issue Copy

Microfilm : CY 4661, frames 1-15

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Scope and Contents

Contents

9 June 1801; Commission appointing Lieutenant-Colonel William Paterson to be Lieutenant-Governor of the settlement of New South Wales. Manuscript on vellum with paper seal. Signed by the Duke of Portland on behalf of King George III.
MLMSS 7421/1X (Request Microfilm: CY 4661, frames 1-10)

1 October 1804; Commission appointing Lieutena...

Alternative Titles

Full title

Item 1-2: Commissions to Lieutenant-Colonel William Paterson, 9 June 1801 and 1 October 1804

Notes

General note

Transferred from Ap 36/1, August 2004.

Contextual Information

Source

Purchased from Helen L. Banning, February 1908.

Administrative / Biographical history

William Paterson arrived in Sydney in 1791 as a captain in the New South Wales Corps. He was gazetted lieutenant-colonel in 1798 and appointed lieutenant-governor of NSW in 1801. When a new settlement was founded at Port Dalrymple in 1804 he was put in charge of it, remaining there until 1809 when he returned to Sydney. He left for England in 1810...

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

MLMSS 7421

Record Identifier

9gkd3l49

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9gkd3l49

Other Identifiers

Reference code

441898

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