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Title
Jorgen Jorgenson journals, 2 - 29 September 1826; 21 January- 10 April 1827
Creator
Jorgen Jorgenson, 1780-1841
Call number
C 125
Level of description
fonds
Date

2 - 29 September 1826; 21 January- 10 April 1827
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
447420
Issue Copy
Photocopy : CYC 125. Xerox copyflo on open access.
Microfilm : CY 216, frames 1-75 (C 125/1-2).
Physical Description
2 volumes in box - 0.03 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Jorgen Jorgenson (1780-1841) was born in Denmark. He came to Australia as a seaman in 1801, leaving in 1805 to return to Denmark. Over the next few years his extraordinary life included a two month period as the ruler of Iceland and incarceration in English prisons. In April 1826 he arrived in Van Diemen's Land as a convict where he was soon assigned to the Van Diemen's Land Company for whom he made journeys of exploration. While still a convict he became a constable in the Oatlands district and died in 1841.
Scope and Content
2-29 Sept. 1826; An incomplete journal in a small notebook. Inscribed on label pasted on cover: 'Journal of Jorgen Jorgenson when on an expedition of discovery in Van Diemen's Land, 2nd Sept. 1826'. Cover also has annotation by Thomas Scott: 'Given by Jorgen Jorgenson himself to Mr. George Scott of Mount Morriston near Ross, when lodging there in 1827 & 8'. The journal describes Jorgenson's journey of exploration for the Van Diemen's Land Company. With Mark Logan and Andrew Colbert, he set out from Dr James Ross' farm on the Shannon River travelling in a northwesterly direction. Jorgenson claimed that they sighted Frenchman's Cap, but modern scholars believe that they reached no further than the area near Mt Jerusalem. Includes a copy of a letter to Henry Hellyer, V.D.L. Co. surveyor, 26 Sept. 1826. An annotation by Scott on an interleaved page states that the last part of the journal was used by convict servants at Mount Morriston to light pipes. (Call No.: C 125/1: Issue xerox at CYC 125 or microfilm at CY 216)
21 Jan.- 10 Apr. 1827; Journal in notebook. Inscribed on labels pasted on cover: 'Jorgenson's journal of discoveries in V.D. Land, and death of Mr. Lorimer, 1827, from Circular Head to the Pieman's River, West Coast'. Jorgenson describes how he left Hobart on 21 Jan. 1827 for the V.D.L. Co's post at Circular Head. There he joined an expedition led by Clement Powell Lorymer, the Company's surveyor. Together with Thomas Jones and James Dunn (or Dunne), they set off down the west coast, reaching the Donaldson River, a tributary of the Pieman River. Lorymer was drowned on the return journey. (Call No.: C 125/2: Issue xerox at CYC 125 or microfilm at CY 216)
Finding Aids
Read the transcription here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2015/D00007/a1656.html
General note

Both volumes include signature of David Scott Mitchell.
Both volumes have bookplates of Thomas Scott pasted on covers. Bookplate on 1826 diary reads: 'Thomas Scott, Earlston, no.1022'; bookplate on 1827 diary reads: 'Thomas Scott, Earlston, no.305'.
Further information about Jorgenson can be found in 'The Usurper: Jorgen Jorgenson and his turbulent life in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land, 1780-1841', by Dan Sprod, Hobart: Blubber Head Press, 2001 (Mitchell Library location 994.60209/1).
Preservation microfilm copy made March 1975.
Digital order no:Album ID : 823743
Creator/Author/Artist
Hellyer, Henry, 1790-1832
Scott, Thomas, 1800-1855
Name
Lorymer, Clement Powell
Van Diemen's Land Company
Subject
Convicts--Tasmania.
Danes--Australia.
David Scott Mitchell Collection.
Explorers--Tasmania.
Tasmania--Discovery and Exploration.
Place
Tasmania
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