Indenture between William Whaley Billyard and Allan Campbell, 17 July 1862

MLMSS 10043/Box 1X

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17 July 1862

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0.76 metres of textual material (1 outsize box) - manuscript

William Whaley Billyard (1815-1903), landowner and lawyer, arrived in Sydney with his wife and family in 1846. He worked as a solicitor and in 1853-1854 built ‘Kirketon’ a mansion in Darlinghurst Road. In 1848 he bought land from John Glade and subsequently subdivided and sold the land in November 1855, naming it Gladesville.

Allan Campbell (1815?-1895) was a respected medical practitioner in the Yass region. He owned land in the area having already built a colonial Georgian house named Fifield in 1859 before buying land from Billyard in 1862.

Samuel Terry (1776?-1838) was transported to Australia as a convict in 1801. After 1807 when his term had been served he became a wealthy landowner, merchant and philanthropist. Between 1817 and 1820 he held more than a fifth of the total value of mortgages registered in the colony.

References:
Library correspondence file
Freeman, Jessica (2015). 'Crocker Prize for Biography entry 1515, The shipwrecked laywer and his lady'. Society of Australian Genealogists. https://www.sag.org.au (accessed 14 March 2018)
Gwyneth Dow, 'Terry, Samuel (1776–1838)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/terry-samuel-2721/text3833, published first in hardcopy 1967, (accessed 14 March 2018)

Manuscript, ink on paper, being an indenture between William Whaley Billyard of Sydney and Allan Campbell of Yass for the purchase of one acre of land at Kirketon near Yass, 17 July 1862.

The document contains the history of the land dating back to 1832, including a land grant from the Crown to Samuel Terry for five hundred and forty acres of land on the Yass River.

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Signed twice by William Whaley Billyard and witnessed by Charles A. Brown.