| Summary: | Description: 1 'Memorandums', 22 Dec 1808 - 12 Aug 1814 (pp. 1-82) Includes: appointment as Governor of N S W, 27 Apr 1809; voyage to Sydney, 22 May 1809 - 28 Dec 1809; swearing in as Governor, 1 Jan 1810; shipping arrivals and departures; executions; official duties and social life; visits to outlying townships; promotion to Colonel, 2 July 1811; promotion to Brigadier-General, 25 Oct 1812; birth of his son, 28 Mar 1814.2 Letters to D'Arcy Wentworth, 17 Mar 1814 - 27 May 1816 (pp. 82 a-f) Includes: payments from Police Fund and admissions to General Hospital.3a List of persons dining at Government House, 28 Mar 1817 (pages 83); b Note re his son's birthday present, 28 Mar 1818 (pages 84); c Note re fixing prices of wheat, meat and corn, 24 Sept 1813 (pages 85a).4 'Notes and Memorandums 1817-1818', 26 July 1817 - 4 Nov 1817 (pp. 86a-130). Includes: laying of foundation stone of St Mathew's Church, Windsor 11, 13 Oct 1817; official duties and social life; visits to outlying townships; shipping arrivals and departures; executions. 'Memorandums', 22 Jan 1819 - 26 Oct 1822 (pp. 131a-192). Includes: lists of people dining at Government House, passenger list for Prince Leopold to Van Diemen's Land, 8 Mar 1819; list of children in Native Institution 28 Dec 1819; reports on building works in progress in Sydney 28 Sept - 23 Nov 1820; 'Factions and Dissatisfied in N S W on 30 Nov 1821'. Itineraries of 'The Grand Tour of Europe', 1822-23 (pp. 193-208). Report on campaign in India, 24 Dec 1782. Extract from General Orders, 22 Aug 1783. Copy of Jane Macquarie's will, 5 May 1795. Copies of inscriptions on tombs of Jane and Lachlan Macquarie.
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