Milson family further papers, 1826 - 1960

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Wollombi 19th August 1846

Sir

In acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 31st Ulto requesting from me a testimonial of your character and respectability I have pleasure in being enabled to state that during a residence of five or six years in the [deleted: that district] [illegible] & uniformly observed the improved state of your farm and your [deleted: intelligence] talent and respectability placed you with the first of the settlers of this district.

Unsought for by you I felt it my duty to express my regret that one of the most respectable of its inhabitants should have removed to another district when his serving here might  have been attended with advantage & his neighbours as an example [deleted: of] in improved cultivation and my superior intelligence.

I desire to convey my best wishes for the prosperity and health of yourself and family

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AUSTRALASIAN BOTANIC & HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

pd Feby 11 1856 No. 13 Sydney, Page 2 Feb 16 1856 Sydney 4th October 1855.

Received from Lloyd Burdekin Esq  the sum of One Pound One Shilling. being the Amount of Annual Subscription from 1st. July 1855 to 30th June 1856.

£ 1 : 1 : - W. [illegible] Treasurer W. H. Catlett Secretary 

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Place before the ford of Emu Plains

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Re[indecipherable] 27th Novr 1838[?]

My dear Mr[?] Dunlop I heard on Sunday of my Daughters having been confined on Saturday and gave birh to a boy & a girl, and I received the melancholy further information of the death of the infants. It appears they were born in a room [?indecipherable] of [indecipherable] Influenza atmosphere which soon affected the delicate Lungs of the Babys and caused their deaths. As the above circumstance will prevent me attending the Bench will you do me the favour to put off the

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in reply to the letter you refer to, but was not aware she was ill, which I am exceedingly grieved to hear, I trust however you are right in imagining it to be only nervous indigestion, I write to her today but do not know whether my letter will find her at Thornly [?] Park so I do not know whether her former intention (which you conveyed to me) of returning home has been attain'd [?], another thing I do not know, is, whether you will be able to read this letter, it will puzzle you I think. I envy you all the fruit we have only had half a dozen bunches of grapes a few melons and five peaches very small but civilization is advancing so rapidly that next year several gardens here will have abundance of fruit -- I went for a few days on a visit at Christmas and was so unfortunate as to lose my horse Felix. I am afraid he was stolen but he might have strayed out of the paddock in which I placed him in which case it is probable he may make his way to Nth Wollombi - Mr. Cornish was with me and he also lost his horse, a Chesnut mare branded on her neck [drawing of brand, like an "8"] four years old I think

With kindest love to Mama and yourself with Rachel and my most sincere thanks to all, believe me My dear Father your most affectionate son

[signed, and underlined] D. H. Dunlop

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To His Excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy Knight Governor in Chief of New South Wales & & &

The situation of the lauded Proprietors, Farmers and settlers of the Macdonald River District Showeth That with unfeigned respect for your Excellencys person and governance we hereby represent that numerous cases at this Bench require the assistance of a second Magistrate whose mental abilities legal knowledge and unbiassed judgment shall be such as to inspire confidence in the integrity of his decisions.

We your Petitioners therefore most earnestly solicit that your Excellency will be graciously pleased to replace David Dunlop of Mulla Villa Esquire in the Commission of the Police.

Your Petitioners respectfully beg leave to state that when in the year 1845 it was resolved to dispense with the services of a Police Magistrate in the District they prayed the late Sir George Gipps on behalf of Mr Dunlop of whom they then declared (what with perfect truth they now beg to reiterate) that from the period of that appointment to the Macdonald River District he possessed their full and firm confidence as their entire esteem as all able upright and zealous Magistrate.

Earnestly Entreating your Excellencys gracious consideration of [\these desires your Petitioners will ever pray.

Macdonald River 24th April 1848