Year 1827

Date

Source

Details (including Reference and Location)

1827

May

1827

Index to the

'Australian',

1824-1842

William Powditch dissolves partnership with Fred.

Boucher.

(Source: M.L., Newspaper entry, 23 May 1827, p1c)

Aug

1827

(Source: Allotments and Owners of same in King's Town [later renamed Newcastle], as shown in "Genesis of Rural Settlement on the Hunter" , pp111)

Genesis of Rural Settlement on the Hunter (River)

Allotment No.	Allotment No.
53. William Hicks 54. William Evans 55. Patrick Rilley 56. William Powditch 57. Patrick Rilley 58. John Tucker 101. Henry Gillman 102. John Earle. 130. George Williams 131. James Phillips 132. John L. Platt 133. Robert Scott, J.P. 134. Helenus Scott 135. John Bingle 136. James McClymant 137. John Stonack 59. J. G. Frankland 60. Joseph Thew 61. John Brown 62. Edward Priest 63. Henry D. Owen 64. John Pike 65. Edward Gostwyck Cory 66. Beresford Hudson 61 William Hickey 68. Alexander Shand 69. Duncan Sinclear	70. Joseph Pennington 71. John Herring Boughton 72. Nathaniel Goldingham 73. James Mudie 75. Elizabeth Dillin 71 T. C Thomson 78. T. V. Bloomfield 79. George Galway Mills 80. Thomas Coulson 81. William Ogilvie, J.P. 82. Edward C. Close 83. Major Jackson 93. William West 96. Leslie Duguid 98. Henry Tubbit 99. John Taylor 100. William Dun 138. W. B. Carlysle 139. William Powditch 140. Lawrence Standish Harris. 147. Joshua Thorp 151. John Cobb 188. Alexander Warren 190. J. B. Wilkinson 191. Alexander Livingstone 192. Henry Dangar HENRY DANGAR, August, 1827.
..... In referring to the buildings in and about the new township in 1827, Dangar describes them as: ..... Consisting of a church, once a neat edifice, but latterly divine service has not been performed in it, in consequence of the steeple having been considered unsafe, and which is now taken down. The other public buildings are the residence of the resident police magistrate, the parsonage house, surgeons' quarters, court house, subaltern-officers' quarters, commissariat store, military barrack and guard-room, hospital, gaol, residence of mining manager, windmills, etc., etc., with a fort on the extremity of the neck of land commanding the entrance of the harbour . . . The private houses do not yet amount to more than from twenty-five to thirty, and about 200 inhabitants . . . King's Town is supplied with water by springs, over which bad wells are dug, but which are capable of being improved, and. will then afford an unlimited supply of water at all times.

(Source: Allotments and Owners of same in King's Town [later renamed Newcastle], as shown in "Genesis of Rural Settlement on the Hunter" , pp111)

Aug

1827

Genesis of Rural Settlement on the Hunter (River)

(Source: Plan of Allotments in King's Town [later renamed Newcastle], as shown in "Genesis of Rural Settlement on the Hunter" , pp110)

Sep

1827

Index to the

'Sydney

Gazette'

1803-28

Capt. Powditch of the Elizabeth brings a cargo of

wheat from Valparaiso because of a report that local

crops had been destroyed by bush fires

(Source: M.L., Newspaper entry, 10 Sep 1827, p2e)

8 Sep

1827

Index to the

'Australian',

1824-1842

Capt. Powdith [sic] arrived from Valparaiso,

September 8th, on Elizabeth.

(Source: M.L., Newspaper entry, 12 Sep 1827)

26 Sep

1827

Index to the

'Sydney

Gazette'

1803-28

letter (printed in the Newspaper) in which 'YZ'

defends Capt. Powditch for having brought a cargo

of wheat to the Colony

(Source: M.L., Newspaper entry, 26 Sep 1827, p4c)

28 Sep

1827

Index to the

'Sydney

Gazette'

1803-28

letter (printed in the Newspaper) in which 'CP'

exonerates Capt. Powditch for having brought a

cargo of wheat to the Colony

(Source: M.L., Newspaper entry, 28 Sep 1827, p3e)

17 Oct

1827

Index to the

'Sydney

Gazette'

1803-28

Cavenagh & Robson advertise W. Powditch's Charts

and Nautical Instruments for sale since W. Powditch

is retiring from the sea.

(Source: M.L., Newspaper entry, 17 Oct 1827, p1d)

19 Oct

1827

Index to the

'Australian',

1824-1842

"Captain Powditch has done a great service to the

agricultural community, by introducing the farmers

alfal grass seed of Chili [sic], into New South Wales.

It is perrenial [sic], and if sown in moist land, grows

to the height of three and four feet" (Alfal = Alfalfa =

Lucerne)

(Source: M.L., 'The Australian' Newspaper entry, 19 Oct

1827)

9 Nov

1827

Index to the

'Australian',

1824-1842

"GRAZING.

PERSONS HAVING MORE STOCK THAN their

respective runs can maintain, are respectfully

informed that cattle will be taken, on the usual

terms, to run on Ashton Farm, Hunter's River, which

is bounded and intersected by running streams of

the best water. The fattening of bullocks is also

attended to in the growth of artificial grasses, and

other herbage.

WM POWDITCH.

N.B. - A small herd of English bred cows, for a dairy,

will be taken security on the cattle, on sufficient

terms.

Application to be made by tender, to Messrs.

Cavanagh and Robson, Sydney; or, to Mr. Wm.

Vivers, Bailiff, on the farm.

(Source: 'M.L., The Australian' Newspaper entry, 9 Nov

1827)

Census

1828

1828 Census

of New South

Wales

Powditch, William; Age=(F)35; F/B=CF; Ship=Adrian;

Year=1821; R=P; Occupation=Master Mariner;

Residence=Cumberland St., Sydney; Ref.No.=*P1127

Powditch, Ann (Mrs); Age=23; F/B=CF; Ship=Adrian;

Year=1821; R=P; Occupation=not stated;

Residence=[Cumberland St., Sydney]; Ref.No.=P1128

Powditch, R.A.; Age=4; F/B=BC; Ship=n/s; Year=n/s;

R=P; Occupation=n/s; Residence=[Cumberland St.,

Sydney]; Ref.No.=P1129

Powditch, George; Age=(G)3; F/B=BC; Ship=Adrian;

Year=1821; R=P; Occupation=n/s;

Residence=[Cumberland St., Sydney]; Ref.No.=P1130

(Source; 1828 Census of N.S.W.)

Jul-Dec

1827

Land Grant

To J.K.Powditch (i.e. John Kitteridge Powditch,

William's brother), a Land Grant of 600 acres.

(Source: t.b.a.)

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