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Benjamin Boyd 1830s by unknown artist

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Benjamin Boyd 1830s by unknown artist

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Boyd, Ben

A flamboyant businessman who arrived in Sydney on his own ship, Wanderer, Boyd was an ambitious and somewhat dubious entrepreneur whose schemes failed because of a shortage of labour, and who eventually left the colony for California.

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Boyd, Ben

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Entrepreneur in pastoral and whaling industries who was accused by some of trying to introduce slavery into NSW.