History of New South Wales From the Records
VOLUME 1 - GOVERNOR PHILLIP 1783-1789

G. B. Barton - 1889

"Nor do I doubt but that this country will prove the most valuable acquisition Great Britain ever made." - Arthur Phillip

Table of Contents

 

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Illustrations
• Index to Authorities (Not included in this online version at this stage)
• An Introductory Sketch

 

PART I

• Proposals for Colonising New South Wales
• Transportation and Colonisation
• Transportation to America
• The Expedition to Botany Bay
• Phillip's Commission
• Preparations for the Expedition
• A Vain Petition
• The Fleet at Sea
• England a Hundred Years Ago
• Sir Joseph Banks
• Australia a Hundred Years Ago
• Phillip and His Work
• Phillip and the Military
• Phillip and the Natives
• Phillip and Exploration
• Exploration by Sea
• Phillip and His Staff
• The Courts of Law
• Crime and Punishment in the Eighteenth Century
• The Chronicles of Sydney Cove

 

PART II

• The Foundation of the Colony
• First News from Botany Bay
• Administration of Justice
• The Civil and the Military

 

PART III

• James Maria Matra's Proposal
• Sir George Young's Proposal
• Heads of a Plan
• Lord Sydney's Letters
• Portuguese Convicts
• The Depopulation Theory
• History of Transportation to 1787
• Order-in-Counsel
• The Act of Parliament Establishing the Colony
• Cromwell's Prisoners
• Transportation to America
• Early Virginian Planters
• Transportation to the West Indies
• An Official Estimate of Transportation
• Dr. Lang's Estimate
• Statistics of Transportation
• Warrants for Transportation to America
• Contemporary Opinions
• Sir Joseph Banks
• Phillip's Commission
• Phillip's Instructions
• Governors' Commissions
• The First Fleet
• Burke on Transportation to Africa
• Colonisation of Africa
• Arthur Phillip
• Letters from Sydney Cove
• Deserted Colonies
• From Pittwater to Sydney in 1789
• Phillip's Staff
• La Pérouse at Botany Bay
• A Pathetic Letter
• King's Commission as Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island
• Phillip's Instructions to King
• Judge-Advocate Collins
• Letters Patent Constituting the Courts of Law
• Letters Patent Constituting the Vice-Admiralty Court
• Letters Patent Empowering governor Phillip to Remit Sentences
• Crimes and Punishment in the Eighteenth Century
• Visit of Hope to Sydney Cove
• The American Loyalists
• Live Stock
• Native Food Supply
• The Judge-Advocate's Opinion
• An American Colonist on Transportation
• Administration of the Colonies in 1787
• Pitt's Ministry

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TERRA AUSTRALIS, NEW HOLLAND, AND NEW SOUTH WALES

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13/08/2005

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