Richard Nichols, list of supplies for Essington Park estate, 6 January 1834

MLMSS 10021

fonds

6 January 1834

1008092

0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript

Phillip Parker King, son of Governor Philip Gidley King, was a naval officer and hydrographer best known for his surveys of the Australian coast, 1817-1821 and the coasts of Chile, Peru and Patagonia, 1826-1830. By 1823 Phillip Parker King, was running stock under a ticket of occupation in the Oberon district. As he was generally absent on official duties his affairs were in charge of an overseer.
Reference: Library correspondence file

The letter to Marshal William Beresford was part of a larger collection of correspondence that was donated to the National Army Museum in London in 1990. This one item was retained because of its relationship to Phillip Parker King.

A list of supplies, 6 January 1834, ordered for Phillip Parker King’s pastoral property, Essington Park, near Oberon, from Sydney merchants J. B. Bettington by Richard Nichols, overseer. The list includes axes, gunpowder and rum as well as basic foods such as flour, sugar, butter, cheese and rice. The list also includes instructions to send the items at ‘the earliest to the inn at Hartley’.

The list is written on the back of a letter, 1810, from a Portuguese brigadier to Marshal William Beresford, commander of the Portuguese army during the Peninsular War. The letter concerns the need for supplies after the destruction of the town of Badajoz by the French. It is written in Portuguese.

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List on reverse of letter dated 1810.