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fraudulently obtaining sheep from the Hassalls.105

In 1825, Reverand Thomas Hassall, Elizabeth's son, petitioned the Governor, Sir Thomas
Brisbane, on behalf of his widowed mother and his sisters, Eliza, Susannah and Ann. They were
co-owners of 4000 sheep and 4000 head of horned cattle for which they had no pasturage of their
own either by Grant or Ticket of Occupation. He asked that they should be given a Ticket of
Occupation for land on Warwick Plains, fifty miles south west of Bathurst on which to run their
stock.106 Later he petitioned Lord Bathurst for more pasturage for their 35 horses, 600 head of
horned cattle and 3,500 breeding sheep. He stated that, through lack of proper pasturage the year
before £5000 worth of ewes had been lost and the losses would have been greater if they had not
been able to use land granted to his brother-in-law, William Walker, for temporary pasturage.107

Elizabeth Hassall had been left an annuity by her husband and this annuity was to come from
then enterprise conducted by her son Samuel Otoo Hassall at Macquarie Grove. After his death it
became difficult for her daughter-in-law to continue paying the annuity so in October 1833 her son,
Thomas Hassall, certified that his mother had given up freely all claim to her annuity from
Macquarie Grove with the exception of any rent which should come from Bosworth, a small farm
once owned by her son, Samuel Hassall, and now the property of his widow.

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Parramatta in the 1820's.

Parramatta as it was during the time Elizabeth Hassall was one of the prominent women there.
From Jervis, James, The Cradle City of Australia, A History of Parramatta 1788-1961.

105 Colonial Secretary's Correspondence.
106 Ibid, Fiche 3135, 4/1842A, No.363, p.357.
107 Historical Records of Australia, Vol.XIII, p.717.

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