Part B.

WANTED Two Sawyers, to cut about 5,000 Feet of Timber at Bagdad —Apply to Mr. T. Peters, Elizabeth-street.

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“Peters, Thomas: A grant of land was allocated to his wife, with her husband as an assigned servant. They expanded to a larger farm in the Brighton area and elsewhere, while Peters also ran a successful blacksmith shop in Elizabeth Street. His children were well-educated and in the end this family did well." - The Mercury 9 Aug 2004 page 33  [Frank Bolt drawing on  Mrs Marjorie Tipping (Convicts Unbound) and Mrs Irene Schaffer (Land Musters, Stock Returns and Lists)] The Mercury's Newspapers in Education website

…”There were children among the earliest settlers of Van Diemen's Land, but there is no record of any schooling until 1806 when Jane Noel, a teacher from Sydney, is said to have offered classes for a short time in a small hut in the Hobart Town 'camp'. In the following year a more substantial school was opened by Thomas Fitzgerald, an ex-convict and then clerk, and his wife. This survived, and in 1812 the Fitzgeralds were given an official appointment and paid an allowance on condition they accept poor children, including those of convicts, without charge.” - Michael Sprod at http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Education.htm

Edward Barnes arrived Risdon Cove, Van Diemen’s Land on 12th Sept. 1803. He married Hannah Spence on 24th Oct. 1814. He had 80 acres at Humphreys Rivulet - Islet Rivulet. He died on 23rd July 1817 aged 52. Thomas Peters acted as the Excutor for his estate.

Herdsmans Cove is a suburb in the Brighton Region of Tasmania. See http://bit.ly/2i1xEZs

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View from near the top of Constitution Hill, Van Diemens Land. 1825 - Joseph Lycett  

 Bagdad Valley is in the middle ground. 

via STATE LIBRARY VICTORIA http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/129739

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