# 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. > 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 - **Address:** c/18R8-N3, version 1 of 1 (https://www.plot.eco/c/18R8-N3) - **Value:** 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:** Reviewed (step 3 of 4): PLOT checked the claim against its source. This is not independent verification. Checked by a person. - **Open questions:** None open - **Source:** Letters from Victorian pioneers, being a series of papers on the early occupation of the colony, the aborigines, etc, p. 137, lettersfromvicto00publiala, leaf 163, printed page 137 - **The snippet in PLOT:** - **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. - **Editions:** october-26th-release - **How we found this:** Found under sourcing protocol accounts-core@0.1.0, for the question "Changes people made", in historical\_archives. Screened in on an AI proposal (Claude Opus 5.5 (AI), for review). Extracted with claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract\_passage@1; a person reviewed it before publication. - Query: Williamstown \| Williams Town \| Williams-town \| Point Gellibrand \| Gellibrand's Point \| Gellibrand Point \| Jawbone \| Greenwich Bay in archive.org/lettersfromvicto00publiala (archive.org OCR text, local full-text match) - Screening: include (meets criteria): Sheep landed at Williamstown in May 1836 and kept near the beach. ## History - Version 1 (this version): first published version --- Machine-readable: https://www.plot.eco/c/18R8-N3.json 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