PLOT c/18R8-N3 · version 1 of 1

The writer reports that in May 1836 his sheep, and the flocks of several earlier settlers, were landed at Williamstown and kept by shepherds near the beach.

In the first week of May 1836, I left George Town, Van Die- men's Land, with a small flock of sheep, in the brig Henry. Five days after embarkation they were landed at Williamstown, Port Phillip, where I found several, if not all, of the first settlers, with their flocks, all of which had been brought from Van Diemen's Land within the five or six previous months, and which were left in charge of the shepherds near the beach until suitable runs could be procured.Historical passage

About Williamstown

Kind

Reported by source

Who said it

Other

Period

1853-10-06 to 1853-10-06

Checked

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Open questions

None open

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Where it says so

Letters from Victorian pioneers, being a series of papers on the early occupation of the colony, the aborigines, etc (on archive.org) · View in PLOT — p. 137, lettersfromvicto00publiala, leaf 163, printed page 137

How they know

accounts-core@0.1.0: screen_passage@1, extract_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator lettersfromvicto00publiala, leaf 163, printed page 137

Limitations

A writer's account: context and a reason to look again, never a measurement. The writer's words for the place are kept; silence elsewhere is not absence.

Framework targets

none linked

Editions

october-26th-release

Cite as: PLOT record c/18R8-N3 v1, Letters from Victorian pioneers, being a series of papers on the early occupation of the colony, the aborigines, etc (1853-10-06 to 1853-10-06), reported by source

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