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Title page of 'An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island ...;' by John Hunter, 1793

By
John Hunter
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a1978007 / C 689]
(Mitchell Library )

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Hunter, John

State Library of New South Wales

Aboriginal

Epidemics

Historical writing

Smallpox epidemic 1789

Outbreak of disease that decimated the Aboriginal population of the Sydney area.

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Hunter, John

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Naval officer who accompanied Arthur Phillip in the First Fleet, and returned as Governor of the colony from 1795 to 1800.

White, John

Naval surgeon and naturalist who arrived in Sydney with the First Fleet.

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First Fleet

Fleet of eleven ships which left England in 1787 to found a penal colony in Australia. It consisted of two Royal Navy Vessels, three store ships and six convict transports which carried over 1000 convicts, marines and seamen to the colony.

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