# The writer describes Williams Town at Gellibrand's Point, across from the anchorage, and reports that no fresh water had been found there, so water was brought by boat from Melbourne. > Cite as: PLOT record c/RDC8-ZQ v1, Letters from Victorian pioneers, being a series of papers on the early occupation of the colony, the aborigines, etc (1837), reported by source - **Address:** c/RDC8-ZQ, version 1 of 1 (https://www.plot.eco/c/RDC8-ZQ) - **Value:** Williams Town is formed opposite the anchorage, on the western side of the mouth of the Yarra, at Gellibrand's Point, and would be a thriving township but for the want of fresh water, of which none has been found, and the only supply at present is brought from Melbourne in boats. (Historical passage) - **About:** Williamstown - **Kind:** Reported by source - **Who said it:** Other - **Period:** 1837 - **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. 275, lettersfromvicto00publiala, leaf 301, printed page 275 - **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 301, printed page 275 - **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 "How the place looked", 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): Williams Town at Gellibrand's Point: no fresh water found, a pretty situation (c. 1837). ## History - Version 1 (this version): first published version --- Machine-readable: https://www.plot.eco/c/RDC8-ZQ.json Cite as: PLOT record c/RDC8-ZQ v1, Letters from Victorian pioneers, being a series of papers on the early occupation of the colony, the aborigines, etc (1837), reported by source