Transcription of a diary of John Easty, 1787-1793, by Sir William Dixson

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November 1786 - May 1793

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Textual Records (1 volume) - manuscript

Little is known of John Easty, private marine on the Scarborough. Neither his birth nor death dates are known. He returned to England in December 1792, on the Atlantic, the same ship that conveyed Arthur Phillip home. In September 1794 he was employed by a London grocer and spent some years petitioning the Admiralty for compensation promised for short rations in New South Wales.

References:
Mollie Gillen, The founders of Australia; ADB)

A memorandum of the transactions of a voiage [sic] from England to Botany Bay in the Scarborough transport, Captain Marshall commander, [November 1786-May 1793, including his stay in New South Wales and return to England in the Atlantic with Governor Phillip]

Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.

This journal has been published in transcription: 'John Easty, Memorandum of transactions of a voyage from England to Botany Bay, 1787-1791: a First Fleet Journal' (Sydney: Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales, 1965. See ML Q991.1/16A1 and CY 914, frames 99-203).