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Title
Copy of the John Batman journal, 10 May-11 June 1835
Creator
John Batman, 1801-1839
Call number
DLMS 55
Level of description
fonds
Date

10 May 1835-11 June 1835
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
942415
Physical Description
1 folder of textual material - typescript copy
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

John Batman set out from Launceston, Tasmania in 1835 on board the schooner Rebecca to investigate the availability of grazing lands at Port Philip
Scope and Content
Show the first settlement of Port Phillip now the State of Victoria. Included is an account of the purchase of 600,000 acres of land from the Port Phillip natives, pages 38-41. Batman describes in detail the voyage in the Rebecca to Port Phillip.
Original held by
Original is in the Public Library of Victoria.
Description source

Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.
Name
Rebecca (Ship)
Subject
Pioneers--Victoria.
Explorers--Victoria--Port Phillip Bay
Aboriginal Australians--Victoria--Port Phillip.
Dixson Library (N.S.W.)
Place
Port Phillip Bay (Vic.)

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