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Title
Series 08: Rowland Hassall, Parramatta store ledger, 1811-1822
Call number
A 864
Level of description
series
Date

1811-1822
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
401889
Physical Description
0.07 metres of textual material (1 volume) - manuscript - 37.5 x 24.5 cm
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Rowland Hassall fled Tahiti for Sydney aboard the 'Nautilus' in 1798, along with his wife Elizabeth and sons Thomas, Samuel, and Jonathan. On their arrival at Port Jackson the family first lived at Parramatta in a house owned by lay preacher George Barrington, a reformed pickpocket. Hassall was granted 100 acres of land at Dundas and established a flock of merino sheep with sheep from the flocks of Samuel Marsden and George Barrington. On Samuel Marsden's recommendation, Governor King appointed Hassall as superintendent of convicts and government storekeeper at Parramatta and Toongabbie in 1800. The appointment was terminated in 1802 due to Hassall's inability to detect forged signatures. Around that time Hassall opened a store at Parramatta stocked with a diverse range of goods. Hassall's fair prices are said to have helped break the monopoly of extortionists in the Colony. Hassall's Parramatta store also provided a valuable service to missionaries who remained in Tahiti by supplying them with much needed goods.
Scope and Content
Ledger, bound volume with manuscript entries. There is an alphabetical index of names and corresponding folio numbers in the front of the volume. Each folio carries the name of the customer and, occasionally, their occupation or employers name, for example 'Cribb, George, Butcher', or 'Carter, Thomas, Mrs King's Servant'. Entries include date, description of goods purchased and amount of purchase or payment. Entries occasionally include signature of customer.
General note

Microfilm copy available at CY 2157, frames 1-289. Digitised from the microfilm copy in 2015.
Digital order no: Album ID: 1328068
The Hassall's Parramatta store ledger was acquired with funds from the David Scott Mitchell endowment.
Creator/Author/Artist
Hassall, Rowland, 1768-1820
Subject
Account books--New South Wales.
Account books--New South Wales--Parramatta.
General stores--New South Wales--Parramatta.
New South Wales--Social life and customs--1788-1851.
Place
Parramatta (N.S.W.)
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