Jeffery Hart Bent - correspondence with Lachlan Macquarie and others, Dec. 1814-Oct. 1815
Jeffery Hart Bent - correspondence with Lachlan Macquarie and others, Dec. 1814-Oct. 1815
Jeffery Hart Bent - correspondence with Lachlan Macquarie and others, Dec. 1814-Oct. 1815
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Date
1814-1815
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Safe 1/52
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0.02 metres of textual material (1 volume) - manuscript
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Microfilm : CY 4170, frames 20-39 (Safe 1/52)
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Read the transcription here: http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2015/D00007/a2292.html
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Contents
1 Dec. 1814; Letter received from Governor Lachlan Macquarie asking him to summon the Supreme Court and to supply a plan of the way in which he wishes the court room to be fitted up (pages 1-4)
26 May, 1 June 1815; Copies of letters sent by Bent to William Broughton and Alexander Riley concerning a dispute over the persons eligible to be admit...
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Full title
Jeffery Hart Bent - correspondence with Lachlan Macquarie and others, Dec. 1814-Oct. 1815
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Includes bookplate of D.S. Mitchell; bound by Corbett Binder, Sydney.
Listed in the Manuscripts Index Card Catalogue as: Macquarie and Bent correspondence, Dec. 1814-Oct. 1815.
Digital order no:Album ID : 845995
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by David Scott Mitchell in 1907
Administrative / Biographical history
Jeffery Hart Bent was appointed to the position of judge of the Supreme Court of Civil Judicature in February 1814 and nominated W.H. Moore and Frederick Garling as attorneys to practise before him. J.H. Bent came into conflict with Governor Lachlan Macquarie over the establishment, opening, and functioning of the court. -- Reference: Australian...
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Safe 1/52
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nV2qwwEn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nV2qwwEn
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456510
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