Series 01: Indentures for the sale of 'Needham's Farm', District of Bulanaming, Sydney, February 1822 and January 1824, with Supreme Court memorandums, February 1826

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February 1822 and January 1824, February 1826

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Daniel Cooper (1785-1853) and Solomon Levey (1794-1833) both came to Sydney as convicts but soon developed a variety of business interests which made them spectacularly wealthy. In June 1825 they joined forces and the firm Cooper & Levey was formed. As inporters, exporters, woolbuyers, store and ship owners, shipbuilders, shipping agents, whalers and sealers, they had a large share of the colony's business. In 1826 they acquired 100 acres at Woolahra and Rose Bay, and they owned, by grant or purchase, most of the land in Waterloo, Alexandria, Redfern, Randwick, and Neutral Bay. In 1826 Levey left for England and Cooper followed in 1831 but neither gave up his business interests in Sydney.

BOX 1
1. Indenture (Lease) between John Blaxland of Newington, and Gregory Blaxland of Brush Farm, and Daniel Cooper of Sydney, Merchant, forty acres in the District of Bulanaming, 6 February 1822. Receipt for Supreme Court office attached, 22 February 1826

2. Indenture (Release) between John Blaxland of Newington, and Gregory Blaxland of Brush Farm, and Daniel Cooper of Sydney, Merchant, forty acres in the District of Bulanaming, 6 February 1822. Receipt for Supreme Court office attached, 22 February 1826

3. Indenture between Daniel Cooper, of Sydney in the Colony of NSW, merchant, and Solomon Levey of Sydney, merchant, for forty acres of land known by the name of Needham’s Farm, District of Bulanaming. Witnessed by W.C. Wentworth, 24 January 1824

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