Terri McCormack research papers on Captain John Piper

MLMSS 10962

fonds

approximately 1993-1997

Textual Records, Graphic Materials

9605481

2.38 metres of textual material (14 boxes) including photographic prints

John Piper (1773-1851), military officer, public servant and landowner, was born on 20 April 1773 at Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of Hugh Piper, a doctor. The Pipers were in the main an army family, and Scots only by adoption, having come from Cornwall and before that from Germany. Through the influence of his uncle, Captain John Piper, young John received a commission as ensign in the newly formed New South Wales Corps in April 1791, as his younger brother Hugh was to do in 1799. John sailed in the Pitt and arrived in Sydney in February 1792 when the infant settlement was still fighting for its life in the face of starvation. Piper was an immediate social success and became a close family friend of John Macarthur. For further information see ADB entry.

This collection consists of the research files of Dr Terri McCormack during her NSW History Fellowship, funded through the Ministry of the Arts, on NSW Customs officer Captain John Piper (1773-1851).

Box 1 Folders 1-10 including: Grants, Correspondence, Genealogy, Enid Bullock
Box 2 Folders 12-23 including: Scotland, Maybole, Devon Rhode Island, Youl, Miller, Mackenzie and Shears families, Eddington Sarah Piper, John Piper’s children
Box 3 Folders 24-34 including: Thrupp and Cox families, Military history, NSW Corps
Box 4 Folders 35-45 including: NSW Corps, Convict ships, Norfolk Island
Box 5 Folders 46-55 including: NSW Colonial society and economy, Rum Rebellion, Freemasonary
Box 6 Folders 56-64 including: Van Diemen’s Land, Naval Office
Box 7 Folders 65-73 including: Naval Office, Colonial Secretary
Box 8 Folders 74-82 including: Colonial Secretary, Bathurst, insolvency
Box 9 Folders 83-93 including: Land grants, Vaucluse, Point Piper, Petersham, Land purchases
Box 10 Folders 94-103 including: Thrupp land, National Library of Australia, Sydney Gazette, Historical Record of Australia
Box 11 Folders 104-113 including: Historical Record of Australia, Mitchell Manuscripts
Box 12 Folders 114-121 including: Borwick transcripts, Piper papers
Box 13 Folders 122-129 including: Piper papers, secondary sources
Box 14 Folders 130-135 including: Photographs and pictures (copies of original material)

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Detailed contents list in box 1