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Lock, Maria

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Petition from Maria Lock re: land grant 1831, page 1 as Creator

Petition from Maria Lock re: land grant 1831, page 2 as Creator

Petition from Maria Lock re: land grant 1831, page 3 as Creator

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Petition from Maria Lock re: land grant 1831, page 1

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Transcript: To His Excellency Lieut. General Darling, Governor on Chief of New South Wales and its Dependencies.

The Petition of Maria Lock, an Aboriginal Native of New South Wales. Humbly Sheweth

-That on the first establishment of the Native Institution by His Excellency Governor Macquarie, your Petitioner, then a Child, was Placed there by her father the Chief of the Richmond Tribes.

-That Petitioner continued in the School Till she was married to Robert Lock, with whom She has ever since lived, and by whom she has had Two Children.

-That at the time they were married your Petitioner was promised a small Grant of Land, And a Cow as a Marriage Portion.

-That she has since received a Cow, which Has increased to five head, but has never Received any Land.

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State Archives & Records New South Wales

[NRS 907 2/7908, page 1 of 3]

Petition from Maria Lock re: land grant 1831, page 2

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Transcript: - That Governor Macquarie gave her Brother Coley a small Grant of Land at Black Town; and as her Brother is now dead, your Petitioner humbly prays that this Grant may be transferred to her, and her Children, or that a small portion of the land adjoining be given to her, whereby she and her Husband may be enabled to feed their Cattle, now Seven in number, earn an honest livelihood, and provide a comfortable home for themselves, and their increasing family.

And your Petitioner shall, as in duty bound, ever pray &c &c &c

Maria Lock

Liverpool March 3rd 1831

I beg leave to state, for the information of His Excellency The Governor, that I have known Petitioner from a Child - and more particularly since she was married - having in consequence of her exemplary conduct, allowed her and her husband for several years past, to reside upon my farm - I believe her own written statement to be strictly correct; and I feel great pleasure in recommending Petitioner to His Excellency's most favourable consideration,

Robt Cartwright Senr Chaplain

The Petitioner was in the Native Institution when I as the Secretary & was Married from it. And as she has proved that the instruction she received was not lost from her, I beg to recommend her to the kind consideration of His Excellency The Governor.

Richard Hill Esq

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State Archives & Records New South Wales

[NRS 907 2/7908, page 2 of 3]

Petition from Maria Lock re: land grant 1831, page 3

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State Archives & Records New South Wales

[NRS 907 2/7908, page 3 of 3]