Samuel Breakwell papers concerning Vaucluse estate, 1803-1838, 1898, 1918

MLMSS 1720

fonds

423197

Microfilm : CY 4118
Photocopy : CY MLMSS 1720
Microfilm : CY 290

1 volume of textual material

In 1797 Captain Thomas Dennett purchased two grants of land in Sydney from Thomas Laycock and Sergeant Major Thomas Whittle. He died in England in 1798 leaving a will concerning the land. In 1803 Simeon Lord auctioned the land on the authorisation of the executors. It was bought by Sir Henry Browne Hayes, but never finally paid for as he could not obtain the deeds. In 1804 he made his friend Samuel Breakwell tenant of Vaucluse. In 1812 Breakwell leased the estate to Lieutenant Governor O'Connell, who in 1814 leased it to Captain John Piper. Piper bought it in 1822 from Captain Robert Lethbridge, to whom it had been sold by Thomas Dennett the younger. In 1827 Piper sold Vaucluse to William Charles Wentworth

The collection was formerly in the possession of Mr Arthur Barlow and is referred to by C. A. Bertie in this book, 1918, as the Barlow Papers

Includes papers of Samuel Breakwell, 1809-1826, Sir Henry Browne Hayes, 1801-1825 and Sir Maurice O'Connell, 1818-1824, and a copy of The story of Vaucluse House and Sir Henry Browne Hayes, by Charles H. Bertie, published Sydney, 1918

Information upgraded from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (5-325 C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

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