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Gregory Blaxland was born 17 June 1778 at Fordwich, Kent, England, the fourth son of John Blaxland, mayor from 1767 to 1774, whose family had owned estates nearby for generations, and Mary, daughter of Captain Parker, R.N. Gregory attended The King's School, Canterbury. In July 1799 in the church of St George the Martyr there, he married 20 ...
Gregory Blaxland Jr, the seventh and youngest son of the pioneer, farmer and explorer Gregory Blaxland (17 June 1778 – 1 January 1853), "organized a punitive party to deal with the savages", [3] which culminated in a bloody skirmish at the site of Gibson and Howes' sugar plantation at 'the Cedars', south of Bundaberg.
In 1805 John and his younger brother Gregory were persuaded by Joseph Banks to emigrate to Australia. Blaxland made a good bargain with the English government which agreed that if he brought £6000 to the colony he would be granted 8,000 acres (32 km 2) of land, the labour of 80 convicts who would be fed for 18 months by the government, and a free passage for himself, his wife, children and ...
Anne Northup, U.S. Representative from Louisville, 1997–2007; member of the Consumer Products Safety Commission; sister of Mary T. Meagher; Zach Payne, member of the Indiana House of Representatives; Clarence M. Pendleton, Jr., Chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, from 1981 until his death in 1988; born in Louisville in ...
Jasper Blaxland (1880–1963), English consultant surgeon; John Blaxland (explorer), pioneer settler and explorer in Australia, brother of Gregory Blaxland (1778–1853) John Blaxland (politician) (1799–1884), member of NSW Legislative Council, a son of Gregory Blaxland (1778–1853) John Blaxland (historian), Australian historian and academic
Oxmoor was surveyed in 1774 and was the home of Sturgis Station fort by 1780, when it was granted to Col. William Christian. Alexander Scott Bullitt married Christian's daughter in 1786 and Christian gave the 2,000-acre (810 ha) farm to them as a wedding present.
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