Research - Part B
29. RESEARCH Part B - A story of Thomas and Ann Peters.
30. RESEARCH Part B - Thomas Peters is transported for the term of his natural life
31. RESEARCH Part B - Mary Ann Peters accompanied her convict husband
32. RESEARCH Part B - 1803 Thomas, Mary Ann, & Elizabeth (2yrs) came to Port Phillip aboard the Calcutta
33. RESEARCH Part B - 1804 Peters family transferred to Van Diemen’s Land & Martha is born
34. RESEARCH Part B - 1805 Hobart Town: Mary Peters receives a Land Grant on New Town Rivulet
35. RESEARCH Part B - 1806 & 1807 The Peters have a farm with 4 cattle 2 sheep & a goat.
36. RESEARCH Part B - 1808 - 1812 Hobart Town: Martha dies, Thomas is pardoned, & 3 babies are born.
37. RESEARCH Part B - 1814 Hobart Town: Property deals, Horse races & a baby.
38. RESEARCH Part B - 1815 - 1816 Hobart Town: A juror, a boat race, supplying wheat & meat + 8th child
39. RESEARCH Part B - 1817 Hobart Town & York Plains: Thomas Peters receives a Land Grant
40. RESEARCH Part B - 1817 Hobart Town & Bagdad: the Duke of York & Baker’s farm
41. RESEARCH Part B - 1817 Hobart Town,York Plains, Bagdad & Tarrets’s farm
42. RESEARCH Part B - 1817 Hobart Town & Bagdad: Education, an executor, & stock moved from Herdsman’s Cove.
43. RESEARCH Part B - 1818 Hobart: A heavy cart and a ferry accident
44. RESEARCH Part B - 1818 Hobart: A court case, a house for sale. & Elizabeth marries George Armytage
45. RESEARCH Part B - 1818 Hobart: Stock on Birch’s land + Kickerterpoller & the Friendly Missions
46. RESEARCH Part B - 1819 Hobart: Rents to Supreme court & Mary Ann Peters (nee Hews) dies aged 39
47. RESEARCH Part B - 1819 - 1821 Hobart: Found guilty of ‘contumacious conduct in court’.
48. RESEARCH Part B - 1824 - 1829 Bagdad: Louisa marries John Hayes & Charlotte marries Francis Flexmore
49. RESEARCH Part B - 1830 Tasmania: The Black Line.
50. RESEARCH Part B - Nov 1930 Many Aborigines slip through the Black Line and the Peters house is raided.
51. RESEARCH Part B - 1830 Bagdad: As the Black Line advances settlers houses are attacked
52. RESEARCH Part B - 1830 Bagdad: Sophia Peters (16) and Ann Peters (14) are speared & Ann dies of her wounds.
53. RESEARCH Part B - 1830 - Following the Tasmania Wars the surviving traditional owners are rounded up
54. RESEARCH Part B - 1831 - 1839 Bagdad: Mary Ann Peters & Sophia Matilda Peters both got married,
55. RESEARCH Part B - 1839 Bagdad Thomas Peters dies
56. RESEARCH Part B - The 8 Children and 48 Grandchildren of Thomas & Mary Ann Peters
57. RESEARCH Part B - A Story of Thomas Peters and ‘the Brady Gang’
58. RESEARCH Part B - Where to next? Choices, choices, choices.
HOBART 1817
The Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter (Tas. : 1816 - 1821)
Sat 19 Jul 1817 Page 1 TROVE - National Library of Australia
In July 1817 Thomas Peters placed a notice in The Hobart Town Gazette which reveals that in addition to the Duke of York, in Elizabeth Street Hobart Town, he owns land at Bagdad which was known as Baker’s Farm; land at Kingboro which was known as Terrett’s Farm; and his own recent grant of land, Peter’s Farm at York Plains.
I do not know if the 40 acres of land at New Town, that was granted to his wife Mary Ann in 1805, (also known as Peter’s Farm) was still owned by the family at this time. It is shown on maps as having being next transferred to Thomas Preston. This Preston land was located near the site of the Orphan School.
In 1817 Thomas Peters also had stock grazing on land at Herdsman Cove (Brighton). I have not seen records that indicate that he owned land at Herdsman Cove.
Thomas Terrett’s Farm, District of Kingboro (Kingborough), Margate district, North West Bay
Thomas Terrett arrived in Van Diemen’s Land in 1804. He was a marine on the Calcutta. He was one of several First Fleet marines who were given grants of land at North West Bay. Thomas Terrett received his land grant on 20th September 1813. By July 1817 the farm was owned by Thomas Peters. The research of Peter MacFie indicates that some of the North West Bay land grants may never have been taken up, and several of the Marine settlers soon vacated their farms. (A History of North West Bay and Margate, Tasmania 1792 – 2000 https://petermacfiehistorian.net.au/publications/ )
Lge. Detail from Map - AF396-1-156 Showing locations:
Mary Peter’s farm, Duke of York, & Terrett’s farm
via LINC Tasmania https://stors.tas.gov.au/AF396-1-156
Detail from Map - AF396-1-156 Showing Terrett’s farm
via LINC Tasmania https://stors.tas.gov.au/AF396-1-156
I have overlaid highlights that on the images above to indicate the approximate locations of:
- • Tarret’s Farm, an 1813 land grant of 80 acres at Kingboro
- • The Duke of York, and 2 other houses in Elizabeth Street (beside Wellington Bridge and the Hobart Rivulet)
- • Mary Peters’s 1805 land grant of 40 acres at New Town (adjoining the Newtown Rivulet, near the site of the Orphan School)
- • Herdsman Cove (Brighton). Peters had stock grazing here, he may not have owned the land.
- • Baker’s farm, an 1815 land grant of 100 acres adjoining ‘the Bagdad run of ponds’ (between Bagdad and Constitution hill)
- • Thomas Peters’s 1817 land grant of 100 acres at York Plains
Detail from Map - AF396-1-9 (Rotated & Highlighted
to show Terrett’s farm & the names of his neighbours.)
via LINC Tasmania https://stors.tas.gov.au/AF396-1-9
The image above shows detail from Map of Van Diemen's Land by George Frankland, Surveyor General and sole Commissioner of Crown Lands ; engraved and published by Joseph Cross. 1839.
Via LINC Tasmania https://stors.tas.gov.au/AUTAS001139593859$init=AUTAS001139593859-p01j2k
There is a site hosted by the National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University which has a great page that shows a map that is an online re-creation of Map of the settlements on and near the Derwent River Van Diemens Land by G.W. Evans, Dy. Surveyor Genl. Hobart Town 1819. The “land parcel boundaries are not exact due to the difficulties involved in migrating original maps for use with newer technologies”. It is still well worth a visit. See: http://oa.anu.edu.au/entity/12453?pid=2501