Part 24 (2/2)
HMS BUFFALO: shi+P'S MUSTER, 1801 TO 1805
No separate muster of the shi+p's co the Public Records, but during the period that she was attached to HMS Buffalo in New South Wales the na in her were inscribed in the books of that shi+p, four pages froive the names of the officers and seamen who composed the complee is an extract from the Buffalo's own muster-roll when she conveyed the first Norfolk Island settlers to Port Dalry decided to break up their settleers on board the Buffalo were Mrs Elizabeth Paterson the wife of the Lieutenant-Governor, Mr
Willia Surveyor-General, and Ann Williams, possibly a relative of his With the Norfolk Island settlers was William Lee, to whoe, who afterwards became one of the first pioneers in the Bathurst district
The story of the Buffalo's arrival at Port Dalrymple is told in a letter written to Earl Camden by Colonel Paterson from Yorktown as follows:--
”On the 4th April HMS Buffalo arrived from Port Jackson by which conveyance I received a proportion of such stores and provisions as could be spared, 120 ewes, 2 rams, 6 cows, 2 bulls, 1 mare, and 1 horse: 50 prisoners were also sent
”Five settlers arrived at the sa Surveyor-General to measure out the allotments necessary for them
Soon after their arrival I accompanied them to different situations as far as Supply River, which is about 10 round they chose their allotments on the banks of a run, 2Deputy-Coes of free settlers, chose his ground also in this situation They proceeded to clear the ground and to cultivate Everyone exerted themselves as much as possible, but those who cultivated on the sides of the hills were deceived in their choice and too much disappointed in the first appearance of their crops, the low ground being also found subject to temporary floods AS THEY WERE THE FIRST SETTLERS, I have recommended them to his Excellency, as a rerants of land on the north side of theup the river South Esk Mythis situation is that they cannot fail in success as it is a part of the country the colonynow past I have every reason to believe the greatest of our difficulties have been surmountedIt is not for me to presume to be acquainted with the particular causes which rendered it necessary this colony should be established, but if its desirable situation in the ihts was one of the objects, it appears to e establishment should ever remain here while the interests of Great Britain are to be effected in this part of the world, and I can assure your Lordshi+p I have seen no country yet that offers such inducements to be retained
I have, etc,
W PATERSON”
( The re Norfolk Island Settlers were later on removed to Tas many of them to their new hoe 732)