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Henry Edward Hall
Richards 1980:
Henry Edward Hall arrived aboard the Protector in February 1830 with his wife and family, plus a number of servants and a sizeable quantity of stores and equipment
The Halls first settled in Fremantle while Henry Edward carried out his own explorations and ascertained the potential of the region. He was allowed to select several acres on Rottnest Island and grazed stock there for a time. Unfortunately the animals took ill when the herbage disagreed with them. The stock he had on the mainland roamed away and he appears to have lost these as well.
Hall had been told that he could select nearly 17,000 acres - by virtue of the value of the property he had brought to Swan River. He took up 16,394 acres south of Peel Inlet near the mouth of the Harvey River, plus a block of 200 acres on the west bank opposite the barracks at Mandurah. This small farm was to be a base from which the larger grant was worked. He moved onto it with his family and servants, and immediately commenced clearing and building. Unhappily, Hall’s farming activities were not very successful here either, and government rations had to be relied upon for quite some time.
References and Links
Richards, Ronald 1980, Mandurah and the Murray: A Short History of the Old Murray District of Western Australia 1829-1900, privately published.
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