Copy of a letter received by Banks from William Bligh, titled 'An Account of the Rebellion', 30 June 1808 (Series 40.091) - No. 0009

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January 1808

all Military honors.  The Officers and all the New South Wales Corps attended the Procession - Major Johnston as one of the Cheif [Chief] Mourners.  He was much lamented by all who knew him and was a most afflicting loss to my Daughter and to Myself

          17 On the 11th I discovered that arrangements had been made some time before, for Captain Abbott, the commanding officer of the Troops at Parramatta to exchange duties with Captain Kemp at Sydney.  Abbott was a Magistrate, and it was supposed that he would be continued such at Sydney; and that Kemp would be appointed at Parramatta in his place; By this Change their plan was to have a prepondency in the Benches of Justices; and as the arrangement was without my knowledge, it was an incorrectness in Major Johnston who ought to have communicated it to me in in the first instance, however, I settled it in this way. I allowed the change to take place, but as we wanted no additional Magistrate at Sydney, Captain Abbotts services in that capacity were no longer necessary, and I appointed Mr Williamson, a Deputy Commissary of long standing in the Colony a Magistrate at Parramatta. Wm McArthur came down to live at Sydney about this time.

          18th On the 12th a Ship called the City

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