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Centinels at the Door.
73rd - The following morning the same Committee came again, and took away another assortment of Papers, public and private, many of them were secret letters containing private information concerning affairs of the Colony.
74th - All the land upon the material parts of the Banks of the Hawkesbury being granted away to Individuals except a small spot in which Government House stood, and the extent of that Settlement rendering it necessary to have a resting place in my Journies, as well as to render it easier for the Settlers to have access to me; I directed the Revd. [Reverend] Saml. [Samuel] Marsden to purchase a small place eligible for my purpose, which he did of a Person returning to England for One hundred and Fifty pounds of my own money, at the rate of a pound per Acre; and to which I added by purchase an adjoining piece of about one hundred Acres for one hundred pounds. In the cultivation of a part of this spot, I also wished to prove by example to the Settlers, that a few Acres properly taken care of would produce as much as a great many by their mode of farming whereby considerable time and labour would be saved for other valuable concerns. The private Accounts of this Farm which had been sent to me by the Person who took care of it, and were
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