NRS-1269 | Land and stock returns: Van Diemen's Land

Full description

These returns are for Hobart and Port Dalrymple, and they record more information than the mainland returns. In all of the volumes the following information is given: name, grant or lease, by whom granted, leased or located; number of acres in wheat, barley, peas or beans, potatoes; total number of acres held, number of horses, male and female; horned cattle, male and female; sheep, male and female; grain on hand in bushels - wheat and barley; victualled or not victualled from the public stores - proprietor, wife, children, government servants; number of free men employed; total number in family, remarks.

Occasionally additional details are included.

1819-20, 1822 (4/1235.3, X740, 4/1235.9, 4/1235.12). 4 vols.

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This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.