Norfolk Island’s Land Allotments December 1791
- Product code: Dec1791
In early Dec 1791, Charles Grimes surveyed the existing yet flawed land grants on Norfolk Island, this Research Guide features the first 13 land parcels of the eight seaman and two marines of the late HMS Sirius who were granted land on 16 May 1791 and two convict settlers of 19 Nov 1791, along with Phillimore’s grant of Dec 1789. The survey shows the positioning of these lots locations with the interlacing and crossovers land boundaries.
Norfolk Island land lots were undersized, boundaries were out of place and some lots were even crossing each other. Norfolk Island, Commandant Philip Gidley King proposed that by replotting the fronts of the settlers lots along each side and the Phillipsburgh and Queensborough roads, leaving the proper government lots, which could be then could be occupied by settlers or convict settlers’ leases in the future.
The research guide also features the realignment of land lots and movement of land holders with the replotting of land grants by Charles Grimes are per instructed by Philip Gidley King:
- John Drummond
- Owen Cavanagh
- William Hambly
- Charles Heritage
- Peter Hibbs
- Samuel Hussey
- Samuel King
- Nathaniel Lucas
- William Mitchell
- James Painter
- William Phillimore
- James Proctor
- Robert Watson
Cost is $12.00 includes postage (Australian wide)
