# Letters from Victorian pioneers, being a series of papers on the early occupation of the colony, the aborigines, etc

- Address: s/SYPT-JA (https://www.plot.eco/s/SYPT-JA)
- Kind: Source: other. A source is where claims come from; it is not itself a claim.
- Publisher: not recorded
- Date or edition: not recorded
- Licence: Public domain per the holder's statement (NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT)
- How PLOT found it: Found by a planned sourcing run under accounts-core@0.1.0
- Stored copy: none
- Original: https://archive.org/details/lettersfromvicto00publiala

## Snippets cited by published claims (3; 3 claims)

### lettersfromvicto00publiala, leaf 163, printed page 137

> they were landed at Williamstown, Port Phillip, where I found several, if not all, of the first settlers, with their flocks

- c/18R8-N3: 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. (https://www.plot.eco/c/18R8-N3)

### lettersfromvicto00publiala, leaf 248, printed page 222

> we bought about 2,000 sheep, which, after great trouble and delay, we landed at Williamstown

- c/3FYY-SX: The writer reports landing about 2,000 sheep, and some fifteen horses, at Williamstown in 1839. (https://www.plot.eco/c/3FYY-SX)

### lettersfromvicto00publiala, leaf 301, printed page 275

> would be a thriving town- ship but for the want of fresh water, of which none has been found

- c/RDC8-ZQ: 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. (https://www.plot.eco/c/RDC8-ZQ)

## Places these claims are about

- Williamstown (https://www.plot.eco/p/williamstown)

Cite as: publisher not recorded, Letters from Victorian pioneers, being a series of papers on the early occupation of the colony, the aborigines, etc. PLOT source s/SYPT-JA