1 May 1820 Col. Jacob CUYLER rode with Lt. John BAILIE to the Fish River mouth to discuss the latter's harbour project. 2 May 1820 Col. Jacob CUYLER assembled the people of Bailie's Party, and told them again officially of the conditions of settlement under which heads of families were eventually to receive a hundred acres of land, if the conditions were fulfilled, of the method of drawing rations against deposits which had been made in the United Kingdom, and the necessity of having their guns always at hand as they went about their daily work. He then took his leave to lead the other parties of the convoy to their respective locations. The people of Bailie's Party resolved to name their camp Cuyler Town to his honour. Crause's Party was sat down immediately adjacent to Bailie's Party. 4 May 1820 Bartholomew GUNNING wrote to his former employers in England, describing what he considered to be his misfortune in the Settlement, and saying that he was trying to get permission to move to Cape Town. 9 May 1820 Owen's Party had been set on its location on the right bank of the Spanish Reeds stream, Mandy's Party at its source, and Rowles' on the right bank of the Kap River, now Thornhill and Enterprise, and Scott's astride it. Col. Jacob CUYLER had made his camp on Thorn Ridge, on Bathurst Commonage, near the sources of the Lynedoch River, a point from which the Settlement could be overlooked from the Bushman's to the Fish River, from the shore up to the Waai Plaats Hill. The Acting Governor, Sir Rufane DONKIN, had arrived there and had selected a site, just west of Thorn Ridge, for a centre for the civil administration of the Settlement. As the seat of Magistracy, it was to supersede Grahamstown as the capital town of Albany, and it was named Bathurst in honour of Earl Bathurst, Secretary for the Colonies. Surgeon Daniel O'FLINN had moved up to Grahamstown, and was living in a marquee there. Mandy's Party named their camp centre King George Town. More to follow. SOURCE: The Lower Albany Chronicle Part One 1806-1825 compiled by E. MORSE JONES Best wishes Becky