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Tracing showing the land which George Peat wishes to have measured with the 20 acres already marked out at Upper Portland Head March 1836

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Henry E White
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State Archives & Records New South Wales
[NRS-13886-1-[X753]-Volume 3 part 1-71. Surveyor General Sketch book 3 folio 5]

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White, Henry E

Architect who designed some of Sydney's best known theatres during the 1920s, as well as the Bunnerong power station.

State Archives & Records New South Wales

Statutory body established by the State Records Act 1998. The Act provides for the creation, management and protection of the records of public offices of the State and for public access to those records.

Based at Kingswood, State Archives and Records NSW manage and provide access to the New South Wales State archives collection, a unique and irreplaceable part of Australia's cultural heritage dating back to 1788.

 

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Peat, George

Early landowner who established a ferry crossing of the Hawkesbury River.

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Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin)

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River that runs for 120 kilometres from the confluence of the Nepean and Grose rivers west of Sydney to Broken Bay north of Sydney. The Darug and Darkinjung people who lived along the river called it Dyarubbin.