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The Van Diemen's Land Company (also known as Van Dieman Land Company) is a farming corporation in the Australian state of Tasmania.It was founded in 1825 and received a royal charter the same year, [1] [2] and was granted 250,000 acres [3] (1,000 km 2) in northwest Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) in 1826.
In 1832 he issued a Sketch of the history of Van Diemen's Land, illustrated by a map of the island, and an account of the Van Diemen's Land Company, [1] octavo, the map is by John Arrowsmith. [ 2 ] In 1836 he published an essay on Marine Insurances, their Importance, their Rise, Progress, and Decline, and their Claim to Freedom from Taxation ...
In 1824 he was appointed manager of the newly formed Van Diemen's Land Company which had arranged to buy 250,000 acres (101,173 ha) of land in the north-west of the colony. [1] Curr arrived back in Hobart in May 1826 and headed north to survey his company's land. He established the company's base at Circular Head by September 1826. [1]
The Cape Grim massacre was an attack on 10 February 1828 in which a group of Aboriginal Tasmanians gathering food at a beach in the north-west of Tasmania is said to have been ambushed and shot by four Van Diemen's Land Company (VDLC) workers, with bodies of some of the victims then thrown from a 60-metre (200 ft) cliff. About 30 men are ...
Convict voyage: Captain G. Williamson sailed Majestic from London on 1 October 1838; she arrived 22 January 1839 at Van Diemen's Land. [4] She embarked 126 female convicts, and re-landed three before she departed.
True Colonist: Van Diemen's Land Political Dispatch And Agricultural And Commercial Advertiser: Hobart: 1834–1844 Trumpeter: Hobart: 1833–1850 Ulverstone Herald: Ulverstone: 1974 Ulverstone Post: Ulverstone: 1998–1999 Valley and East Coast Voice [41] St. Marys: 1971–current Valley Voice: St. Marys: 1968–1969 Van Diemen's Land Gazette ...
Van Diemen's Land was the colonial name of the island of Tasmania used by the British during the European exploration and colonisation of Australia in the 19th century. The island, inhabited by Aborigines, was first encountered by the Dutch ship captained by Abel Tasman in 1642, working under the sponsorship of Anthony van Diemen, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.
Curr was born in Hobart, Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Land), the eldest of eleven surviving children of Edward Curr (1798–1850) and Elizabeth (née Micklethwaite) Curr. [1] His parents had moved to Hobart from Sheffield, England in February 1820, where Curr's father went into business as a merchant.