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Sentenced to Debt : Robert Forrester, First Fleeter / Louise A Wilson.
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9780980447866
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Wilson, Louise, 1946-
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Sentenced to Debt : Robert Forrester, First Fleeter / Louise A Wilson.
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New edition.
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South Melbourne, Vic. : Louise Wilson, South Melbourne, 2020.
Description
iv, 501 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
When Robert Forrester moved to London in the early 1780s, he was a 'nobody' in terms of documented history. A judgment at the Old Bailey in 1783 turned him into a 'somebody'.Along with hundreds of other men and women whose homeland did not want them and forcibly expelled them, in 1787 he was loaded aboard one of the First Fleet ships bound for the far side of the world. They anchored in Sydney Cove on 26 January 1788. An astonishing new chapter opened in the long story of an ancient continent.In 1791 a small group of selected convicts allowed to become the first 'new Australians' included Robert Forrester. He'd escaped his death sentence but his land grant in the Hawkesbury's 'valley of floods' quickly sentenced him to debt. Interactions with the 'First Australians', the custodians of his land for 60,000 years, earned him and his partner Isabella Ramsay a permanent place in Australian history. Be transported, not like Robert on a convict ship, but by this engrossing true story of a resilient if inadvertent founder of modern Australia.
Subjects
Forrester, Robert
Forrester family
First Fleet, 1787-1788 -- Biography
Prisoners -- New South Wales -- Hawkesbury -- Biography
Prisoners -- New South Wales -- Biography.
Debt -- New South Wales
Hawkesbury (N.S.W.)
Australia -- History -- 1788-1851
New South Wales -- History
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2021.029
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