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C1794
Land Grant to Neil McKellar of sixty acres in Pete…
Artist:
GROSE, Lieutenant Governor Major Francis (1758?-1814)
Folio (440 x 367 mm), manuscript in ink on laid paper watermarked ‘C. Taylor’, original paper seal, official stamps and annotations, ticketed to verso; some minor wear at the old folds, but very well preserved. An early and significant land … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Land Grant to Neil McKellar of sixty acres in Petersham. Sydney, 3 October 1794. Signed by Grose, Collins, White, Paterson and Laing.
Date:
C1794
Artist:
GROSE, Lieutenant Governor Major Francis (1758?-1814)
Condition:
Minor loss to fold lower right, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Manuscript in ink on laid water marked paper.
Paper Size:
367mm
x 440mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1794
Description:
Folio (440 x 367 mm), manuscript in ink on laid paper watermarked ‘C. Taylor’, original paper seal, official stamps and annotations, ticketed to verso; some minor wear at the old folds, but very well preserved.
An early and significant land grant from the first phase of British settlement in Australia, signed by Major Francis Grose as acting governor of New South Wales. (Grose was in control of the colony for two years in between the departure of Phillip and the arrival of Hunter).
The document is witnessed by John White, surgeon; William Paterson, captain in the New South Wales Corps, for whom McKellar would later act as second in an infamous duel with John Macarthur; and Edward Laing, surgeon, who had himself received the firstgovernment land grant in 1793. It is inscribed by David Collins as Secretary to the Governor. The grant was made to Neil McKellar (or MacKellar), at the time an ensign in the New South Wales Corps, of which Grose had been commanding officer. McKellar had arrived in Sydney with the Fourth Fleet. In 1797, after his promotion to lieutenant, he was placed in command on the Hawkesbury. In September 1800 he was appointed by Governor King as his aide-de-camp and secretary, and the following month was promoted to the rank of captain. He was then appointed as acting magistrate and a member of a committee to investigate an alleged conspiracy among the Irish convicts.’MacKellar took an active part in the later events leading up to the rencontre between Lieutenant-ColonelWilliam PatersonandJohn Macarthur, in which he acted as the former’s second, so earning Macarthur’s animosity. In March 1802 he prosecutedNicholas Baylyon behalf of King for disobedience of orders relating to the trade in spirits. Soon afterwards he sailed for England in theCarolinewith Macarthur’s sword and King’s dispatches concerning the duel, but the schooner was never sighted again.’ (ADB) The parcel of land referred to in this grant was for sixty acres in the district of Petersham Hill, bounded by Parramatta Road to the north, Craven Place to the south, and Hammond Hill to the east. The grant states that this major holding was ‘to be known by the name of ?Glendarnell?’.
References:
Ryan,Land Grants 1788-1809 : A record of registered grants and leases in New South Wales, Van Diemen’s Land and Norfolk Island: 191, p. 25.
