Australian Packet Ships. Emigration to New South Wales [printed broadsheet], 1839. Inscribed with ha...
Australian Packet Ships. Emigration to New South Wales [printed broadsheet], 1839. Inscribed with ha...
Australian Packet Ships. Emigration to New South Wales [printed broadsheet], 1839. Inscribed with handwritten letter by emigration agent John Marshall.
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1839
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MLMSS 10031
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0.44 metres of textual material (1 box)
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Copyright status : In copyright
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Printed broadsheet, 1839, folded to 41 x 25 cm, advertising 'nearly free' passage aboard the packet ships 'William Metcalfe' and 'Mary' to Port Phillip. The broadsheet is published by John Marshall, Austalian Emigration Agent, London. The lower blank portion of the second page is inscribed with a handwritten letter by Marshall to Robert Davy, which...
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Full title
Australian Packet Ships. Emigration to New South Wales [printed broadsheet], 1839. Inscribed with handwritten letter by emigration agent John Marshall.
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Purchased from Helen Girgs in 2017
Collection history
Helen Girgs states that this document was found in a book given by her grandfather.
Administrative / Biographical history
John Marshall was a well-known shipowner, bounty operator and emigration agent in London, who promoted and organised packet ship emigration to Australia over a period from around 1831 to the early 1840s. This printed broadsheet outlines all information and requirements for emigration to New South Wales under a “conditional nearly-free passage”. Thi...
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MLMSS 10031
Record Identifier
Yr8MeXbn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yr8MeXbn
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9589486
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