Letter from John Oxley to Richard Fitzgerald

MLMSS 10468

fonds

4 November 1825

9627466

0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder)

John Oxley was Surveyor-General of New South Wales from 1812 to 1828.

Reference:
E. W. Dunlop, 'Oxley, John Joseph (1784–1828)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/oxley-john-joseph-2530/text3431, (accessed online 23 June 2020).

Richard Fitzgerald was a close friend and trusted agent for Lachlan Macquarie and later for his wife Elizabeth Macquarie. Arriving in the colony as a convict in 1791, he had been appointed to various roles by successive governors and by 1825 owned extensive properties, including ‘Dabee’ at Rylstone.

Reference:
E. C. B. MacLaurin, 'Fitzgerald, Richard (1772–1840)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fitzgerald-richard-2048/text2537, (accessed online 23 June 2020).

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Autograph letter from John Oxley, Surveyor General, to Richard Fitzgerald of Windsor, dated 4 November 1825, with accompanying envelope. This letter is a response by Oxley, on behalf of the governor, Sir Thomas Brisbane, to a request by Fitzgerald for a grant of land (adjoining Fitzgerald’s land at Rylstone) on which to graze a herd of cattle belonging to Mrs (Lachlan) Macquarie. Oxley informs Fitzgerald that the governor has agreed to let him have 2000 acres “which shall be reserved for her use” until the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Bathurst, confirms that this land can be made into a grant.

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