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One suspects that James BELBIN set much store on the
power of the petition. His signature was placed on at least three group
petitions, and he appears to have prepared two or three personal
petitions; perhaps he played a part in drafting the group requests. The
first petition from Norfolk Islands resident, still on the island in
1806, to Governor Bligh, is not reproduced here as it shed little
information on BELBIN's background and did nothing to change his
circumstances. The various pieces of the letter or petition, said to
be prepared by BELBIN and Dodding at the Derwent in April 1809, were
perhaps a little too grubby to retain for official records, however the
Settler's petition of the 21 May reached Bligh and posterity, and
provides the first of the documents included here.
BELBIN's petition of
1813 is sandwiched between the letters it triggered, from Admiral Bligh
to the Colonial Secretary, and from the latter personage to Governor
Macquarie. As we are informed that the settler worked his passage back
to England, it was unlikely that Bligh's son-in-law, Colonel O'Connell,
played any part in finding a passage as suggested by
Calder. Although
one or two of the statements BELBIN made may have been a little elastic,
this document provides much detail on his movements in earlier years.
His letter to George Frankland confirms other details of the return of
the abbreviated family to Port Jackson and the Derwent.
The letter of 1824 to daughter Elizabeth is very
revealing. Several of the tragedies which befell the families of his
adult children are uncovered, and although certainly not affluent, BELBIN seems to be proud of his achievements. Although it might
otherwise seem unlikely, one has to assume that BELBIN believed that he
could expect Major Abbott and Colonel O'Connell to perform some favour
for his family if requested.
The remaining letters throw light on BELBIN's
various problems and indicate that he certainly was quite literate. All
were written in a neat legible hand and are now recorded on microfilm
for future generations to admire.
1. Address of Settlers to
Governor Bligh
To His Excellency W.Bligh, Esqre., Govr.-in-Chief, &c.,
May it Please Your Excellency,
We, a part of the unfortunate Settlers late of
Norfolk Island, Imprest with a due sense of our Duty and earnest to step
forwrd at this momentous period, big with Danger and Difficulty, whilst
the wavering Mind fluctuates between hope and fear, we most humbly beg
leave to express those Sentiments of Loyalty which are Inherent in our
Bosoms by firmly declaring our adherence to your Excell'y as the true
and only Representative of our August Sovereign in these his Colonies,
and our determined abhorrence of those measures which have been taken by
a set of Disloyal and Unprincipled Men, who in the most daring manner
have subverted your Government, Prevented those Salutary effects which
we are convinced would have resulted therefrom, Involving the Innocent
with the Guilty, and by Specious illegal Acts, drawing aside the
Ignorant and Unwary, and, that the enormity of their crimes may be
obscur'd, introducing anarchy and confusion.
These disloyal, base, and unwarrantable proceedings
we most solemly deprecate, sincerely lamenting from our hearts that Men
whom His Majesty had so highly honour'd should so far forget their Duty
in overturning that Government they were bound to support, and so we beg
leave to assure your Excell'y of our resolution to adhere to our Loyalty
and Duty (in any and every pretext to mislead us whatever) to Our most
Gracios Sovereign, and to your Excell'y as his worthy Representative,
not doubting that you will ultimately Triumph over all your Enemies of
Every description, and be received on your return to your Native Land
with that Honour and Distinction with which His Majesty is always
pleased to reward the Brave and the Meritorious. May Your Excellency
enjoy ever Blessing that the Almighty is pleased to bestow, and may your
Amiable Daughter find that consolation in her present Afflictions which
must evidently result from Parental Kindness and filial duty,- Which is
the Sincere and Earnest Wish of Your Obedient and Devoted Servants to
Command.
The Derwent, 21st May, 1809.
THOS RESTELL CROWDER JOHN HALL
JAMES BELBIN GEORGE
BROWN
JAMES
DODDING Wm. SHARDLEY
JOHN
BERESFORD RICHD.PHILLIMORE
THOS. O'BRIEN
THOMAS PRIEST
Wm.HALEY Wm.BELLAMY
THOMAS
FRANCIS JNO.MAUL
JOSEPH
HALL THOS.GUY
WILLIAM MITCHELL
MICH.LEE
2. Admiral Bligh to Under
Secretary Goulburn
Durham Place, Lambeth, 19 December, 1812
Sir,
Permit me to sollicit your indulgence to a James BELBIN, a settler of Norfolk Island, who left that Place agreeable to
orders from His Majesty's Secretary of State on the evacuation, and
proceeded to the Derwent in Van Diemen's Land. On the rebellion of the
Troops in New South Wales he stood a firm and loyal subject to the
Government, on account of which he suffered a deprivation of Rights,
imprisonment and Corporal Punishment. He came over here expecting to
have got redress, but, the Trials being over, he became indigent, and is
now in real want with a son of nine Years old.
The prayer of his Petition is to be allowed
a passage out, and to have an order for the Governor to give him the
proportion of land which Government promised to the settlers of his
Class.
He possessed thirty acres by purchases in
Norfolk Island, and as he had the Character of an industrious Man, I beg
leave to request that himself and Son may be allowed their passage to
New South Wales in the Kangaroo, preparing to sail for that
Colony, and that he may be allowed to embark on board the Vessel as soon
as possible in order to give him a place of shelter while he remains in
this kingdom, for he is in a deplorable situation.
He states that he has nearly 67 Weeks
rations of Provisions due to him and five children, besides Slop
clothing; a proportion of the latter he humbly sollicits may be allowed
to him to shelter himself and child from the Weather, and to be deducted
from what is due to him when he arrives in the Colony.
I have taken the liberty of addressing you
on this subject knowing the Man's great loyalty under my Government,
and Am, Sir, &c.,
Wm. BLIGH
3. Petition of James BELBIN
To The Right Hon'ble Lord Bathurst, His Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State, &c., &c.
The Most humble Petition of James BELBIN,
late Settler in Norfolk island in the South Pacific Ocean.
This Petition most humbly Showeth That Pet'r was a
resident Inhabitant and Settler on Norfolk Island upwards of 18 years,
and till he was removed (with Five Motherless Children) from thence to
Hobart town, one of His Majesty's Settlements on Van Die Mans Land, in
consequence of the order'd evacuation of the said Island.
That Pet'r shortly after his arrival at Hobart
Town, was most unjustly and illegally Persecuted and Imprisoned on
account of his adherence and firm support to His Majesty's legal
Representative, W.Bligh, Esqr. (our late much abused) Govr. in Chief of
His Majesty's Settlements in New South Wales, whilst lying in the River
Derwent off the said Town in his Majesty's Ship Porpoise.
That Pet'r was most unjustly and illegally torn
from Amidst his family (Five Motherless children), lodged in Confinement
in the Guardhouse of Hobart Town for Ten Weeks, deprived of all
communication with his Friends (surrounded by all the Systems of Terror)
sentenced to an unjust, Cruel and illegal punishment of 500 Lashes,
without a legal Tryal of any sort, part of which sentence was inflicted
on Pet'r, as far as his state of Mind and health would admit of, and
whose Constitution from his long and close Confinement was greatly
impaired and injured on his liberation the 15th of Jany., 1810.
That Pet'r after a struggle of upwards of 3 Years
to return to his Native Country to seek a redress or a Remuneration for
those injuries he and his family has Rec'd both in Mind and Body (and to
prevent which many obstacles have been thrown in his way) has at length
Arriv'd in England after a tedious and long passage of 7 Months from
Port Jackson, and from whence Pet'r was compelled to work his passage
home without emolument but his provisions.
That Pet'r since his Arrival in England (with his
Son aged 9 Years), his driven to great Distress to support himself and
Son, as during his long absence of upwards of 21 Years from his Native
land those respectable friends that could have assisted him being all
dead, and Pet'r not being able to procure any Employment to do, from
being a Stranger and no friends to recommend him.
Pet'r has therefore most humbly to request that
some Assistance or Support may be rendered to him to enable him to
Support himself and Son till he can be enabled to return to his family
at Hobart Town, and also that Pet'r may be restored to his family and to
the Rights and immunities of a Settler on the above Settlement, of which
he was deprived of for supporting and rendering assistance to His
Majesty's legal Representative, W.Bligh, Esqr., whoes certificate of
recommendation Pet'r has from his own hand, and who will come forward
and prove the facts contained in this petition.
That Pet'r has ever born an honest and respectable
Character during his residence in the Colonies can be fully proved by
the Certificates now in the possession of Pet'r, and who can call on
Capt. Jno. Piper, our late Comdt. at Norfolk Island, Lt. Col.Fovaux, or
any of the Officers or Gentlemen that have resided on Norfolk Island,
and who can prove tha he has ever considered it his Duty to support the
Crown, having served officially under Capt. Jno. Townson and
Lt.Col.Fovaux on the sd. Island. Pet'r has therefore most humbly to
hope that his unfortunate case may be taken into consideration and
present Relief be granted Pet'r and Petitioner as in
Duty bound will ever pray,
JAMES BELBIN
4. Under-Secretary
Goulburn to Governor Macquarie
Downing St., 31 Jan 1813.
Sir,
I am directed to inform you that in conformity to
the Request contained in a Letter form Rear-Admiral Bligh, of which a
Copy is herein enclosed, his Lordship has been pleased to order that the
Bearer of this Letter, James BELBIN, should have a free Passage to Van
Diemen's Land, where he has been settled, having been one of the Norfolk
Island Settlers.
It is his Lordship's wish that he should be sent
from Port Jackson to the Derwent free of Expense, and if he has not
already received the Grant of Land and other advantages promised to the
Settlers removing from Norfolk Island, you will see the propriety of
giving directions that he should be put upon the same footing with other
Persons, who were brought from that Island. I have,
&c.
HENRY GOULBURN
5. James BELBIN to The Honourable T Wylde
Sydney, Nov 1 1817
Hond. Sir,
I trust you will pardon the liberty I have
taken to addressing you has (sic) the anxiety of Mind I labour under
from being so long detained from my Wife and family induces me to
trouble you. Hond. Sir I beg leave to state to you that in Compliance
with His Excy. Govr. Macquaries instructions to His Honor Lt Govr Sorell
and regular Subpoena signed by Your Honor to attend at a Court Martial
to be held at this place on Depty. Asst. Commiss. Genl. P.G. Hogan Esq.
under charges preferred by his Excy Govr Macquarie I embarked on board
His Majesty's Colonial Brig Elizabeth and Henrietta by orders of
His Honor Lt Govr Sorell (by letters on Service) on the 14th Septr last
for this place, where I arrived on the 2nd day of last Month, since
waiting for the proceedings to take place and Hond Sir I have to regret
that I have no prospects at present of soon returning to my Wife and
family who must sustain serious injury should I be obliged to remain
much longer here at an expense highly injurIous to myself and them
having left a wife and four children at Hobart Town whoes whole reliance
rests with myself for their Maintenance and Support. And the
Confidential Situation I held in the Concerns of E Lord Esq Merchant of
Hobart Town of the order of 200 £ pr annum having ceased on the 10th of
last Month, Requires more particularly my being at Home with my family.
Hond. Sir I have further to state for your Consideration that from the
time of my leaving Hobart Town to the present Date both on the passage
here and since my arrival I have never received any Pay, Assistance or
Remuneration for the Expenses involved in Victualling myself on the
Passage and for my Board & Lodging and other expenses involved since my
arrival. Hond. Sir I have humbly to request your advice in which manner
I am to apply for Payment, Allowances or Remuneration of such Expenses
or any part of them so that myself & family may not suffer so
materially has (sic) by my bearing the Whole while I remain here.
------- to their great loss and Injury. Trusting Hond. Sir that your
goodness will induce you to comply with my request, I beg leave to
Subscribe myself with all Respect,
Your Honors
Most Humble
& Obedient Servant
James BELBIN
The Honble T Wylde Esq.
Judge Advocate
of
New South Wales
6. James BELBIN to Mr John Campbell
Sydney NSW, Dec 31, 1817
Sir,
I hope you will forgive the liberty I have
taken in addressing you has (sic) I am lately to return to Hobart Town.
I have to request you will have the goodness to grant me a copy of the
Letter of Instruction to His Honour Lt Gov Davey dated in the Month of
November 1813 respecting my claims has (sic) a Norfolk Island settler.
Sir I beg to state to you that I arrived here in the Earl Spencer
from England in the month of October 1813 and Embarked from this place
on the ship
Windham
for Hobart Town where I had left my children till my
return. On my arrival here I delivered to His Excy Govr Macquarie, Lord
Bathursts letter respecting myself & family, and I recd by His Excys
instructions a letter from your hands, Sir has above to his Honor Lt
Govr Davey and has (sic) I have not recd a part of the said claims of 2
Governments means to be victualled and clothed by the Govt for 2 years
(agreeable to the Ministers instructions to the Second class) has (sic)
the enclosed Certificate from under this the hand of Lt Gov Davey here
will provide. Sir my motive for applying for a copy of the letter
arises from His Honor Lt Govr Sorells reply to me on applying to him for
the said claims at a Genl Muster has took place prior to my leaving
Hobart Town for this place (to attend has an evidence on a Genl Court
Martial) saying that amongst the documents handed over to him by Lt Col
Davey respecting claims etc prior to his assuming the Government Mine
was not amongst them, and my not being able to see Lt Col Davey before
leaving Hobart Town the same could not be rectified. And Sir I trust
you will be kind enough to grant my request so that I may be able to
produce the same for His Honor Lt Govr Sorell on my return so that my
claims may not be lost to my family. It is now upwards of 2 years since
I was given to understand that the said letter with one I had at the
same time from Lt. Col O'Connell of the 73rd Regt was either lost or
mislaid after I delivered both to Col Davey on my landing there. Sir
your kind Compliance with my request (if not irregular) will greatly
oblige. Sir
Your Humble
& Obedient Servt
James BELBIN
Mr John
Campbell
7. James BELBIN to his daughter Elizabeth BELBIN
N.S.Wales Hobart Town, Van Diemans Land, June 7th 1824
Daughter Elizabeth,
I Recd your letter by the hands of Mrs Roe (she
having the misfortune to lose her husband who died on the voyage out).
She told me she saw you just before leaving
England, and that you was in health and had three children - your
brother James and sisters Sarah, Kitty, & Susan are all in good health
at present as well as my own family - having 4 girls myself by my
present wife - your brother & sisters think you have behaved ungrateful
to them in not writing before to them if you did not think proper to
write to me - In your letter you seem to wish to come back here. I have
written to Col.O'Connell who ere this must be in some part of England
having left Ceylon - and you must make enquiry at the Agents for the
Army, Messrs Greenwood & Cox's Craig's Court Charing Cross - where he
his to be found and write to him directly you find where he resides as I
have written to him to interceed to get you out in some of the Female
Prison Ships - and the Captain of the Ship or any persons coming out
that will let you have any little necessaries you may want to the amount
of Ten or Fifteen pounds I will (pay) them on your arrival here. Any
further I cannot afford on account of my young rising family - Your
brother James is lately married to Mr Nicholls Daughter Caroline your
sister Sarah as now living Kitty as been twice married her first husband
Brown was drowned leaving her with four children, She as married again
since which she as buried her eldest boy 7 yrs old - Sarah as also lost
one girl 7 years by being burnt while stopping at my house in town her
cloaths catching fire while playing with our children Susan his
married and as 2 children having buried one - so that you may see they
have all had there share of trouble as well as myself. I (am) certain
if your husband exerts himself to come out he may get to come - as I
have two or three friends officers now leaving this for England in the
ship Guilford.
His Honour Lt Gov Sorell our late Governor under
whom I have served five years in the situations I now hold - and our
late Depty Judge Advocate Edward Abbott Esq late of the 102nd Reg who
has known me many years, he promised me he would use his interest to get
you out to this to your family therefore I trust if you wish to come to
apply to Col.O'Connell who with the other two gentlemen Lt Gov Sorell
and Edward Abbott Esq - I have no doubt but you may succeed and any
assistance in my power to render you comfortable I will do for you and
your family - your brother and Sisters as send their love to you - and
hope to see you once more if it should be so ordained if not we trust
you will not fail to write by every opportunity. Your friend Mrs Roe is
at present a widow with two children she brought with her - but I
believe will not long remain so as is talked of that she will be married
to a young man a Mr Brian that came in the ship with her - Direct for me
in Hobart Town Van Die Mans Land - Superintendent of Govt Slaughter
Houses & Inspector Stock here - write an answer as soon as possible.
I remain your
affectionate father
James BELBIN
8. Jocelyn Thomas, Acting Colony Treasurer to Lieutenant Governor
Arthur
Treasurer's Office,
October 24th 1825
The Lieut Governor Arthur
Sir,
I am much concerned to be obliged from a source of publik (sic) duty, to complain to your Honor of the extreme unprovoked
insolence and abusive language of Mr James BELBIN the Inspector of Govt.
Slaughter Houses - Most fortunately for me the matter occurred in the
presence of the Acting Naval Officer, The Sheriff, and Mr Whitcombe, Mr
Hamulton's Clerke who can explain the whole transaction and can state
what my cond't was on the occasion. At such a moment as the present I
have great reluctance in adding to your Honors cares, but conceive delay
would be an abandonment of my duty - and surely at such a moment, the
servants of government ought not to be rebels to legitimate Authority.
Feeling assured that your Honor will afford every support and protection
to your Officers in the discharge of their duty -
I have the honor to remain
Sir
your Obedt Humble Servant
Jocelyn Thomas
Acting Col. Treasurer
Acknowledge this, and say I will attend to it as soon as
possible, but at present I have no further information before me than
this letter conveys. I would wish for particulars from Mr Thomas
himself, and then if Mr BELBIN denies, the statement may be confirmed by
the Sheriff.
26 Oct
G.A.
[Ref CSO 1/305/7353,
P262/63, AOTas]
9. James BELBIN to
Surveyor General George
Frankland
Macquarie Street, 26 March, 1832
Sir,
I trust you will forgive me for troubling you with
regard to my Town Allotment in Macquarie Street which I at present
occupy with my premises thereon and beg leave to state for your general
information that it was originally part of an allotment located to Mr W
Baker now Cryer to the Supreme Court, who sold to the same to a person
of the name of James Hemmings (now in the Colony) who after erecting the
frame of a house thereon, again sold the same to a person of the name of
John Beacho a native of Bengal (formerly a servant to a Mr Macnealance
decd) from whom I bought the land and the frame of a house thereon, and
paid him and hold his receipt and transfer for the same as well as Mr W
Baker's and Jas Hemmings' are in my possession, therefore no person or
persons as (sic) any claim thereon, the house Building and other
Improvements have been done by myself - Since May 1818 when I purchased
the land, and has been in my possession ever since. Sir my motive
for purchasing the said allotment of Land I wish fully to explain to you
for your information, as I expected a grant to have been issued to me
years back, being entitled to the same by Lord Windham`s instructions on
that head, dated 31st December 1806 with regard to the Evacuation of
Norfolk Island, (of which I was a settler for many years). Sir before
my removal from the said Island (myself with 5 motherless children) I
was in possession of a Town House and Allotment of ground in the
Township, independent of my Farms and other Buildings thereon, as my own
Bona fida property, all by purchase with the exception of my Town
Allotment from the Govt - and no one had a claim thereon for one
sixpence. The same I was obliged to resign up thru Government and Lord
Windham's indemnifications of remunerations for my property ... for the
same has been adhered to, I know to my regret as well as my family --
On my arrival here in the year 1808, circumstances occurred with me and
the then Lt. Gov of the settlement, that caused me to leave this and
proceed to England to wait on the Home Government, with regard to myself
and family (leaving 4 motherless daughters behind until my return) and
taking my youngest, a son with me. I therefore Sir left all my Norfolk
Island claims unsettled until I could return, which I did to Sydney in
the year 1813, and to this in 1814, when instead of taking my Town
Allotment of 1/2 an acre which I should have received for my Town
Allotment I gave up there when I left the Island. I purchased my
present piece of land, in lieu of same, has being more convenient to
myself and family, than the allotment at the time, and on which I have
expended a good deal of money and labour thereon. My own hands erected
my house and the ground laying low and in the hollow, I was at
considerable labor and trouble to make it as comfortable as it is, and
should my my (sic) means ever enable me (with my large family) I intend
to build one of brick and stone if it should not involve me in debt. I
hope you will be kind enough to inform if I can receive a grant for the
same for the benefit of my children, and should you not sir be empowered
to issue such to me, you will candid enough to inform me as soon as
convenient, as I may be enabled to apply to Gentlemen my Friends at this
time in England, to apply to the Home Govt for same -- as was directed
from them by Lord Bathurst instructions by letter to the late Governor
Macquarie, which I delivered into his hands on my arrival from England
to Sydney in the Earl of Spencer transport in 1813 with my
present wife (& son that I had taken from this) as Government passengers
free of expences, and the said letter contained Instructions to the Govr
in Chief to remunerate me for my claims and losses sustained by removal
from Norfolk Island, as well as for persecution and ill usage myself and
family had sustained on this land before proceeding to England -- Sir I
hope you will forgive the length of this letter feeling my family
interested in my application and for upwards of 40 years that I have
been in these Colonies and 34 years ago serving the Govt. at the hand of
the Police under Commandant Capt J Townson and Col Foveaux (now Lt Gen
in England) Lt Govr at the time at Norfolk Island -- I have never
solicited for one favour in any shape during that period, therefore
cannot think that my property altho but little will be secured to my
children agreeable to Lord Windhams Instructions on that head --I beg
leave Sir
to subscribe myself
your Obt Humble Servant
James BELBIN Senr
Geo Frankland Esq
Survr Genl etc etc
[Ref LSD 1/12, P407-408, AOTas.]
10.
Extract from the Diary of G.T.W.B. Boyes
3 Jan 1840.
At my office.... Old Mr BELBIN called and as usual full
of his important office, and the situations of trust he had filled with
Govr. King, Sir Maurice O'Connell, Govr. Bligh etc. He was a Settler at
Norfolk Island and came away with a heavy heart at a time when a partial
"Vakiation" took place. The seas as high as St.David's Tower rolled in
upon the shore and threw up and down the beach stones as large as this
room, as though they had been so many cricket balls. He had always
given satisfaction to the officers, except those two, Thomas and
Hamilton, who were what he called "private assassin-ators". They tried
to persuade Col Arthur that he (BELBIN) had been abusing the trust
reposed in him, which arose out of the kindness and consideration he had
shown to the settlers. When the meat they had turned into the store
upon their contracts was rejected on account of its quality, he used to
have it salted and sent up to their farms for their own consumption, and
the "surplush" meat he did the same with. Upon this coming to the
knowledge of the two "private assassinators" they went and told the
Lt.Govr. that the rejected meat was salted and received into the
Commissariat Magazine by Mr Moodie to be issued to the troops and
convicts, and of course charged to the public as meat of the best
quality. He was never intoxicated in his life. He takes sometimes two
tablespoonful of brandy of a morning to keep the cold out of his
stomach, and the same quantity with his tea at breakfast. These he
calls "infant draughts", and another dose before he goes to bed, and
sometimes a bottle of Ginger Beer with his dinner, but he never drinks
no other beer or wine, or anything of that sort.
11. James BELBIN to Lord
Bathurst
London Feby 20, 1813
My
Lord,
I hope your goodness and humanity will pardon the liberty I
have again taken in troubling you with this letter, being acquainted by
Rear Admiral Bligh that you had granted his request to your Lordship in
my behalf that I was to embark in the "Kangaroo" for New South Wales
with my Son, and has it is my intention on my leaving England not to
return to it again, I have most humbly to request of your Lordship that
you will have the goodness and Humanity to grant me the further favour
of a passage for a Worthy and Respectable young Woman who wishes to be
united to me and to accompany me out to that place. Gratitude and
affection my Lord urges me to request the indulgence of your Lordship
for her kind attention towards me and my son paying every attention and
duty of a Wife towards me when we were both confined to our beds with
sickness and with which we have both been several times afflicted since
our arrival in England from the Climates not being so congenial to our
constitutions after a residence of upwards of 25 years in those South
climates. My Lord I will not intrude on yr Lordship for her to [be]
victualled without your goodness and humanity should deem me deserving
such a favour and should it not lay in your Lordship's power to grant my
request without defraying the Expenses of her passage out while I am
unable to do, I am willing to resign a part of my claims on Govt. to
which I am entitled to by Mr Windhams instructions on my removal from
Norfolk Island (rather than be compelled to leave her behind a prey to
grief from her firm attachment to me) has a reimbursement or
remuneration to Government. Should your Lordships goodness and humanity
induce you to grant my humble request you will greatly alleviate the
distress of mind a worthy and deserving young Woman labours under from
the apprehensions she entertains of my xxxxx being to leave England for
ever and to leave her behind. She his at present living in the family of
Mr. J. James, Red Lyon Square Holborn where she has lived upwards of six
years. Flattering myself with your Lordships kind compliance with my
request by which I shall be enabled to be united to her (not considering
myself justifiable in marrying her till I have obtained your Lordships
consent for accompanying me out) I subscribe myself
With all due deference and Respect
Yr Lordships Humble and Obedient Servt to Command
James BELBIN
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12. Alex
McLeay , Transport Office to Under-Secretary Goulburn
Transport Office, 24th February 1813
Sir,
I have in command to acquaint you, for the information of Earl Bathurst,
that Jas BELBIN, for whom and his son accomodation was required by your
letter of the 21st ultimo, to be provided on board of the "Kangaroo" for
New South Wales, - has reported to the Agent of this Department at
Deptford, that he is about to be married, and that he can only embark by
having permission to take his wife with him; in which case there will
not be room, as every birth is fully occupied by persons already
onboard.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
Alex McLeay
H
Goulburn Esq.
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13. Alex
McLeay , Transport Office to Under-Secretary Goulburn
Transport Office, 2 March 1813
Sir,
In conformity with the desire of Lord Bathurst, signified in your letter
of the 27th ultimo, I have the Board's command to acquaint you, for His
Lordship's information, that a passage is provided to New South Wales,
in the "Earl Spencer, for James BELBIN, his wife and son, - and that
they may embark in a few days, at Deptford.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
Alex McLeay
H
Goulburn Esq.
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