Dear Ray Thank you for this posting...this link in particular is fantastic: http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/lema/documents.html I could spend hours reading these diaries and memorandums. Thanks again Rhonda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray" <ray15@optusnet.com.au> To: <aus-nsw-hills-hawkesbury-hunter-valley@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 6:14 PM Subject: Re: [HHHV] [NSW-COL-HIST] The Arrival of Gov. Lachlan Macquarie -December1809 > Hello Listers. > I am forwarding this from the NSW Colonial History List, which contains > the > original posting, and my response to it on that list. Hopefully some of > the > content will be of interest to members of this list; more especially as > the > Hawkesbury & Hills districts have such very close connections with > Governor > Macquarie. > > Happy 2010. Ray > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ray" <ray15@optusnet.com.au> > > ...Thank you Diane. >> >> I have been waiting for this Macquarie bi-centenary of his arrival for a >> long time. Hopefully there will be LOTS of events conducted during the >> next12 months to commemorate his governorship and its achievements. >> >> Here is a link to an NSW state government site for the commemoration: >> http://www.macquarie2010.nsw.gov.au/ >> >> And here is a link to the Lachlan Macquarie Room within the library at >> Macquarie University in Sydney: >> http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/lmr/ >> >>>From there, there is a link to this site also: the Lachlan and Elizabeth >>>Macquarie Archives: >> http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/lema/index.html >> >> This page gives access to documents which have been digitised in some >> way, >> to provide online access. If I am not mistaken, many (like the various >> Macquarie diaries) were transcribed by Macquarie University's curator of >> the Lachlan Macquarie Room: Mr Robin WALSH. >> http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/lema/documents.html >> >> Finally, coming back to Diane's posting, this page gives the Sydney >> Gazette's entries for the arrival of Macquarie and his wife with his own >> 73rd regiment etc. in the Dromedary and the Hindoostan. Those on board >> who travelled from England included the new Deputy Judge-Advocate: Ellis >> BENT and his wife and son. Also on board was Macquarie's >> soon-to-be-announced Secretary: John Thomas CAMPBELL, who had been >> recommended to Macquarie by Lord Caledon, then Governor at the Cape of >> Good Hope, whilst Macquarie's ships were victualling there en-route. >> http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/lema/1809/ >> >> Happy Macquarie bi-centenary year to all! >> Ray. > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Diane" <dianep@optusnet.com.au> >> >> ... Gov. Macquarie to Col. Paterson >>> HMS Dromedary, Port Jackson >>> 28th December 1809 >>> [HRNSW Vol.7] >>> >> "Governor Macquarie presents compliments to Colonel Paterson, and has the >> pleasure to inform him of his safe arrival here about half an hour ago >> from England with the 73rd Regt. on board His Majesty's ships Hindostan >> and Dromedary to take charge of the government of this territory. The >> ships have been obliged to take anchor here for the present, owing to >> contrary winds; but Governor Macquarie hopes they will be able to get up >> to Sydney tomorrow, when he will have the pleasure of seeing Colonel >> Paterson" >>> >>> ------------------------------------- >>> Gov. Macquarie to Col. Paterson >>> HMS Dromedary, Sydney Cove >>> 30th December 1809 >>> [HRNSW Vol.7] > > "Governor Macquarie has the pleasure to inform Lt. Gov. Paterson that the > two ships have at length anchored here, and that he intends to land > tomorrow > morning at 10 o'clock at Sydney, and requests Col. Paterson will be so > good > as to direct the 102nd Regt. to parade under arms at that hour to receive > him, and line the street from the wharf to the Government House, where > Governor Macquarie hopes to meet the Lieut. Governor." > ----------------------------------- > [M.H. Ellis; Lachlan Macquarie, His Life, Adventures and Times, 1958] > > "So soon as the Governor left the gangway the harbour echoed to salutes of > fifteen guns fired from the ships, on which all the yards were manned. The > men gave three cheers. Colonel Paterson and Lt. Colonel Foveaux were at > the > Pier Head with the 102nd Regiment, attended by the chaplain and the > gentlemen of the settlement. The 73rd Regiment and the ruddy ancients of > the > New South Wales Corps under arms, formed a guard all the way to the > adjacent > newly painted Government House. Inhabitants bowed as the party passed. > Presently they drove with Foveaux in his carriage through the park-like > lands within the tiny township. Night fell. Bonfires blazed. Rockets rose > from the ships. There was a general air of rejoicing. In New Holland, the > Macquarie Era, which was to leave so strong a mark upon the history of the > continent, had begun ...... 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