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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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