Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 268
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where public services had been performed, bestowed on the courageous and sensible young woman an a splendid allotment of ten acres of fine land, the flourishing and beautiful township of Perth, on the South Esk, on the direct road to Launceston. And Ths. Johnson, the h also obtained an additional ten acre allotment in the same place with a conditional pardon, on conditions of marrying his faithful Dolly, who has turned out an excellent wife.
Bong has another daughter by a white man at Launceston, who also is now a fine woman. I cannot conceive why this poor woman Bong, who was civilized, and might have rested quietly under the roof of Dolly Dalrymple should have been sent to the isl Flinders's island.
Dolly Dalrymple, by her husband Johnson, has a very pretty daughter, about fourteen years old, with flaxen with whitish hair, completely white. She has several other children by the same man, nearly all of a white complexion.