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Brickfield hill and Village

Edward Dayes (1763Ð1804) probably after Thomas Watling (b.1762)
[Brickfield Hill and Village on the High Road to Parramatta] c.1797

watercolour; 17.7 x 24.5 cm
R282

1811
January
1 Governor Macquarie's police regulations for Sydney (issued 6 October, 1810) come into effect, and the Sydney Police Court is established

April
10 Toll bars come into operation on the newly completed turnpike road from Sydney to Parramatta (one in George St, Haymarket, the other at Boundary St, Parramatta)

June
5 George Johnston is convicted of mutiny in London, cashiered and allowed to return to New South Wales. Macarthur is ordered to remain in England

November
23 Macquarie visits Van Diemen's Land and fixes the site for the town of Elizabeth

December
2 Samuel Marsden exports 1,800 kg of wool to England

20 A mental asylum is established at Castle Hill