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Title
'The voyage of the 73rd Regiment of Foot' consisting of two edited journals of Ensign Alexander Huey, May 1809 - April 1810, 29 October 1810 - 21 February 1811
Creator
Alexander Huey
Call number
B 1514
Level of description
fonds
Date

1809-1811
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
923773
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
0.025 metres of textual material (2 vols.) - duplicated typescript, photographic copy
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Ensign Alexander Huey was a junior officer of the 73rd Regiment of Foot at the time of the voyages described in the journal. After brief service with the 73rd, Huey retired to become a painter of miniature portraits. It was probably largely because of his admiration for the artist John William Lewin that Huey determined to leave the army and become a professional painter.

References:
Design and Art Australia Online
http://www.daao.org.au/bio/alexander-huey/ (Accessed 20/08/2013)
Scope and Content
A journal kept by Alexander Huey describing two voyages he undertook between 1809 and 1811, as an officer in the 73rd Regiment of Foot. The journal commences on 5 May 1809 when the 73rd Regiment of Foot received the order to march from Collwell Barracks, Isle of Wight, to Yarmouth, and there to board the ships “Hindostan” and “Dromedary”. It provides a daily account of the voyage and includes information pertaining to latitude and soundings, weather conditions, places visited, drills, incidents and co-travellers who included Governor Lachlan Macquarie and Judge Advocate Ellis Bent. The entry for 1 January 1810 records how the Regiment landed at Sydney and transferred to Grose Farm Camp. The first part of the diary concludes with the entry for 10 April 1810. The diary resumes on 29 October 1810, when Huey received dispatches from Governor Macquarie, and describes the journey home via New Zealand on the “Atalanta”. The final entry is dated 21 February 1811, beyond Cape Horn.

Reference:
National Library of Australia (24/10/2013)

Journal - Part 1
Journal aboard H. M. Store Ship Dromedary from Yarmouth to Port Jackson via Madeira, St Iago, Rio de Janeiro and the Cape of Good Hope, May 1809 - April 1810. The Dromedary with Captain Pritchard in command, brought Governor and Mrs Macquarie to New South Wales. The ship accompanied H.M. Store Ship Hindostan with Captain Pasco in command.

Journal - Part 2
Journal aboard the Atalanta, 29 October 1810 - 21 February 1811, from Port Jackson via New Zealand and Cape Horn. Ensign Huey was carrying home despatches from Governor Macquarie.

The last part of the journal, after rounding Cape Horn, is missing. Apart from description of arrival, pages 22-23, there are few references to Governor Macquarie. References to the 73rd Regiment occur mainly on pages 22 to 24.

Personal names of Aboriginal Australians on page 24
Language
Australian languages, Eora language S61
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Original held by
Originals in the possession of the MacDonald-Tyler family, Londonderry, Ireland
Description source

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (4-19A) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
General note

Microfilm : CY 1388, frames 1 - 42
Photocopy : B 1514 - 2
Digital order no:Album ID : 1063997
Name
Dromedary (Ship)
Macquarie, Lachlan, 1761-1824
Hindostan (Ship)
Atalanta (Ship)
Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 73rd
Subject
Voyages and travels--19th century.
Soldiers--Great Britain--Diaries.
New South Wales--Description and travel.
Ships.
Shipping.
Rediscovering Indigenous Languages Project, 2011-
Place
Great Yarmouth (England)
Port Jackson (N.S.W.)
Madeira (Madeira Islands)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Cape Town (South Africa)
Santiago (Chile)
New Zealand
Cape Horn (Chile)
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