Hello Gloria, It's sometimes hard to wade through the seeming confusion.   For example I've been trying to find a property/station "Bungaroo" owned by a famous-enough man, Thomas Icely.  An old Gazetteer refers to it as Bungaroo station of Thomas Icely in the Wellington district.   I think I have  now found it, west of Canowindra.  Canowindra is nowhere near Wellington. Similarly with James Morris too. On 11 August 1804 James Morris was granted 160 acres at Mulgrave Place supposedly. But I doubt it.   His 160 acres was actually up the northern end of the Upper Castlereagh river flats. This later all became, in recent years, the "Biggest sand and gravel quarry in Australia". So there might be little or nil or his actual land there left now. He also had another block in the laid out township area of Castlereagh - between Tempest and Londonderry Streets and east of Fulton Street.   Sub-opposite there on the opposite side of Tempest Street was the land of my ancestory John Lees.    Lees got into financial difficulties and written across his land in red is "Claimed by Eliza Fulton" (probably a daughter of the local parson Henry Fulton (whose parsonage was also quite nearby). His land (Morris') was original grant.   Not land given to Single.   Most of the first settlers at Upper Castlereagh were convicts of men excess to the military after the British thought they had  Napoleon's forces defeated, I think.   Single by contrast was a well-to-do free settler and later grew quite wealthy from pastoral pursuits (probably across the other side of the Blue Mountains - where many of the Castlereagh folk got involved with). Single's land, or at least his eventual grand house, is on the western side of Castlereagh Road and towards the river.    The quarrying has spared that rather grand house, and also the Upper Castlereagh church/school/cemetery cluster  (but most of the poorer people's places are gone).  Therefore if he bought Morris' large block it is known where that is. You can find the Morris 160 acre block on the old maps of Castlereagh. The Morris's I think crossed the Blue Mountains and became well established, probably as a large landowner, in the Hartley Valley. Cheers,   John       ----- Original Message ----- From:aus-pt-jackson-convicts@rootsweb.com To: Cc: Sent:Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:00:21 +1000 Subject:[PJ] Samuel Foster Hullo John Byrne. I cannot be certain of the whereabouts of the land. But Samuel bought it from James Morris in 1812 for 120 pounds This is mentioned online, if you google Pte James Morris 1759-1813. I have always believed that this land was given to John Single, but I have been unable to prove it... Other land Samuel had was Santley farm at Kingswood. Good luck. Gloria ---------------------- To send a message to the Port Jackson Convicts List, send an email to AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message