Box 14 Folder 7: James Milson, correspondence & documents of David Dunlop, 1830s-1880s

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This material forms part of the Milson family further papers, 1826 - 1960, held at the State Library of New South Wales.

Included within the material is a vocabulary compiled during David Dunlop’s appointment as police magistrate at Wollombi.

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Wollombi 19th August 1846

Sir

In acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 31st Ulto requesting from me a testimonial of your character and respectability I have pleasure in being enabled to state that during a residence of five or six years in the [deleted: that district] [illegible] & uniformly observed the improved state of your farm and your [deleted: intelligence] talent and respectability placed you with the first of the settlers of this district.

Unsought for by you I felt it my duty to express my regret that one of the most respectable of its inhabitants should have removed to another district when his serving here might  have been attended with advantage & his neighbours as an example [deleted: of] in improved cultivation and my superior intelligence.

I desire to convey my best wishes for the prosperity and health of yourself and family

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[postmarks: [illegible] GENERAL POST OFFICE SYDNEY AU* 6 1846 CAMPBELL TOWN NEW S WALES 5 184?]

David Dunlop Esq. J. P. Wollombi.

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LIME STREET WHARF, FOOT OF ERSKINE STREET, Sydney, May 9 1860

Mr James Milson

E. J. BLAXLAND, WHARF BERTHS FOR VESSELS OF ANY TONNAGE, AND SPACIOUS STORES. SALT, LIME, FIREWOOD, COALS, &c.

£ s d To 16 Bushels Lime @ 1/3 1. 0. 0

Paid N. Williams for E. J. Blaxland

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1860 May 12

James bill for Penfold Estate

£18.. 2.. 5

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28 Charles Street, St James Square S.W. London 18th Oct 1878

?? 23d Dec Ansd. 2? Decr.

To The Manager Bank of New South Wales Sydney New South Wales

Sir Mr & Mrs Boyd's Trust

We are the Solicitors acting for Mr. & Mrs. J. C. Curwen Boyd and their family and we understand that there are standing on fixed deposit at your Bank two sums (forming part of Mr Boyd's Trust Funds) of  £5000 and £1200 and which stand to the credit of "Mr Boyd's Trust" - May we ask you to be good enough to hold the enclosed documents - which are merely formal notices to the Trustees and holders of the Funds of the settlement recently made on the marriage of one of Mr & Mrs Boyd's Daughters and which settlement deals with this

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