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Boree Swamp and Thompson's farm on the Macdonald River 1831

Detail of 'Map showing First Branch or Macdonald River, with land holdings 1831'

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State Library of New South Wales
[D Ca 83/20 (detail)]
(William Dixson manuscript collection)

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Boree Swamp in 1831 Macdonald River (Gunanday) Thompson Creek
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Map showing First Branch or Macdonald River, with land holdings 1831

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Rivers and Catchments

Boree Swamp in 1831

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Swamp off Thompson's Creek on the higher Macdonald River (Gununday) that surrounded Matthew Pearson Thompson's farm. 

Macdonald River (Gunanday)

Gunanday, or the Macdonald River, is a tributary of the Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin) that rises on on the eastern slopes of Mellong Range in the Great Dividing Range. It flows east then south of the Hunter Valley for about 120 km and into the Hawkesbury River at Wisemans Ferry. It was referred to as Lower, or First Branch in early European records. By the 1830s it had been renamed after former convict John Macdonald who had been given a land grant in the area.

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Thompson's farm, Gununday

Sixty acre farm settled by Matthew Pearson Thompson and his family in 1822,  in a natural valley amphitheatre at the confluence of the Macdonald (Gununday) River and Thompson Creek.

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Thompson Creek

Creek in the Macdonald Valley, a tributary of the higher Macdonald (Gununday) River.

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Hawkesbury district

Area surrounding the Hawkesbury River to Sydney's north and north-west, which was important in early colonial agriculture and the site of the early towns of Richmond and Windsor.

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