Tour to the New Discovered Country in April 1815.
25 April – 19 May 1815
Tour of Inspection across the Blue Mountains to Bathurst made by Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie, with a large party of officials, servants, and a military escort. This was the first official visit to the Bathurst Plains.
An alternative official version [with slight variations] is available in the Sydney Gazette 10 June 1815, pp.1a-2a 'Government and General Orders'; and also in the Historical Records of Australia. Series 1, Vol. 8 pp.568-576, and chart.
Additional background research also available at:
Journeys in Time 1809-1822
Journal of a Tour made by Govr. Macquarie and Suite into the Interior parts of the Colony of N.S.Wales in Octr. 1815.
3 October – 12 October 1815
Tour of Inspection by Lachlan Macquarie and officials to the Cowpastures and other parts of the interior, including Nattai Mountains, Bargo, Kobbatty Hills, Emu Plains and Rooty Hill.
Additional background research available at:
Journeys in Time 1809-1822
ANTILL, Henry Colden.
Journal of an excursion over the Blue or Western Mountains of New South Wales, to visit a tract of new discovered Country in company with His Excellency Governor & Mrs Macquarie, and a Party of Gentlemen.
25 April – 19 May 1815
An alternative account of the crossing of the Blue Mountains and the establishment of Bathurst in 1815 by Henry Colden Antill (1779-1852).
Antill 1815 Journal
Newspaper Accounts
Sydney Gazette: 4 February 1815.
Bungaree and the George's Head Settlement [31 January 1815]. The occasion when the first brass breastplate (also called a gorget or king plate) was presented in Australia. Engraved with the title 'Boongaree, Chief of the Broken Bay Tribe 1815.'
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