David Hill - Convict Colony: The Remarkable Story of the Fledgling Settlement That Survived Against the Odds

73rd Regiment of Marines 272, 274, 275

Abaroo 121

Aboriginal people xi

Arabanoo, abduction of 11819, 121

attacks on settlers 117, 125, 126

avoidance of white people 117, 290

Bennelong 1212, 204

Blue Mountains crossing, impact on 290

Botany Bay arrival, on 79, 82

British House of Commons report 2902

colonisation, impact of 1345, 2902

disease, exposure to 113, 11921

dispossession of 113, 125, 130, 290

first contacts with white people 11416

marriage with convicts 22

negative reports about by First Fleeters 116

open war with whites 12630

Pemulwuy 1304

Port Phillip 196

raids on farms and livestock 113, 117, 125, 128, 129

reprisal attacks by 127

smallpox 11921

Sydney Cove arrival, on 81

Tench expeditions to catch 1312

thefts by whites from 119

Van Diemans Land 135

William Buckley and 199

Abrahams, Esther 138

accommodation

early settlement 11112

initial 8990

Adams, John 8

Albemarle 219

mutiny attempt 21820

alcohol see also grog ration

attempts to reduce consumption 278

consumption rates 1534

King attempts to control trade 1767, 1834

local production 154, 162

military monopolisation of trade 154, 162, 174

restriction on importation 183

Rum Hospital monopoly 282, 283

trafficking in 154, 162, 174, 194

Alexander 26, 56, 20910

advance party 74

deaths on 49

escape from 51, 20910

mutiny, attempted 65

America

American Navy 42

Declaration of Independence 8

transportation to 5, 8, 13

War of Independence 89

Arabanoo

abduction of 11819

death from small pox 121

Arden, Richard 14

Arthur, Lieutenant Governor George 199

artists 212

Assistant 252

Astrolabe 83, 87, 88, 190, 212

astrological studies 60

Atkins, Judge Advocate Richard 25860, 264, 276

Atlantic 123, 125

Australia

charting coastline 2, 71, 167, 169, 171, 172

circumnavigation by Flinders 173

circumnavigation by French 190

first visitors 12

naming 2, 173, 297

self-government 288

Australia Day 84

Baker, Corporal 47

Ball, Lieutenant Henry 118

Balmain, Chief Surgeon William 123

Macarthur, assessment of 164

Banks, Sir Joseph 911, 129, 134

Aboriginal people, description 115

background and career 12

Bligh as governor, recommendation 252

Botany Bay, assessment of 911, 12, 73

influence 11, 252

journals 73

New South Wales, involvement in 2523

Bankstown 167, 169

barracks 260, 281

first, construction of 111

Parramatta 158, 241

Barrallier, Francis 287, 288

Barrett, Thomas 61, 91

Barrington, George 34

Bass, George 166, 172

Blue Mountains, attempt to cross 1678, 286

disappearance 172

escaped convicts, finding 228

Georges River exploration 167

Port Hacking exploration 167

southern Australia exploration 1689

Van Diemans Land 16971

Bass Strait

discovery 171, 193

speculation of existence 16971

Bathurst 143, 289

Bathurst, Lord 285, 294, 295

Baudin, Nicolas 173, 1901

bche-de-mer 2

Bennelong 1212

trip to England 1234, 204

Bennelong Point 122

Bent, Judge Advocate Ellis 276

Bentham, Sir Samuel 161

Bigge, John Thomas 2956

Bishop, Captain Charles 170

Black Caesar, John 128, 21618

Blaxcell, Garnham 2823

Blaxland, George 260, 2879

Bligh, Betsy 250, 253, 272

Bligh, Mary 253, 254, 259, 261, 266

remarriage 2712

Bligh, Governor William 37, 141

account of coup 2634

arrest and overthrow 2614

background 249

Bounty, mutiny on 166, 248, 2501

complaints about 257

convicts, assessment of 255

death 272

departure from colony 2689

farewell dinner 2767

governor, appointment as 184, 252

Grose, assessment of 152

King, land grants from 254

King, land grants to 254

land grants to 254

Macarthur and 257, 25760, 2634

marines, assessment of 255

overthrow of 138, 141, 248, 2604

parliamentary inquiry into transportation 1489

post-colonial career 2712

post-coup 2667

remuneration as governor 253

Second Breadfruit Journey 152, 166, 252

bloodletting 53

Blue Mountains

Aboriginal people, impact of spread beyond 290

Bass, attempt to cross 1678

Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth 2879

crossing 260, 2859, 290

spread of settlement beyond 134

boats

escapes by convicts, use of 222, 2279

Sydney shortage of 167

Borrowdale 26, 56, 97

Boston Tea Party 8

Boswell, James 227

botanical samples 12

Botany Bay ix, x, 1, 9

arrival of First Fleet 745, 77, 78

Bankss assessment of 911, 12, 73

decamping 834

decision to send convicts 1417

French ships, presence 878, 189

unsuitability for settlement 1, 73, 7880

Boulton, Rebecca 32

Bounty, mutiny on 166, 225

mutineers, fates of 2256

Boussole 83, 88, 190, 212

Bowen, John 192, 198, 199200, 201

Bowes Smyth, Arthur 3940, 56, 60, 66, 756

Botany Bay assessment 80

Bowyer, Ruth ix, x

Branciforte, Marquess of 4950

Branham, Mary 55

breadfruit 249, 251, 252

Brisbane, Sir Thomas 287

appointment as governor 296

Britannia 152, 153

British colonisation 2

Australia, of 1, 2, 1856

fears of French territorial ambitions 88, 173, 186, 188, 1902

impact on Aboriginal people 1345, 2902

Spanish view of 2046

British East India Company 2, 25, 80

The British Grenadiers 261, 263

British Museum 3, 12

British Science Museum 3

Brooker, Jonathon 144

Broom, Samuel 227

brothels, government-organised 22, 145

Brother 263

Broughton, Bishop William 1345

Brown, William 64

Brownrigg, Robert 174

Bruni dEntrecasteaux, Antoine Raymond

Joseph 171, 190

Bryant, Charlotte 634, 223, 226, 227

Bryant, Emanuel 223, 226

Bryant, Mary 634, 2223, 226, 227

Bryant, William 2223

escape attempt by 2226

Buckley, William 1989

Buffalo 110, 176

building work

early settlement 8990, 11112

Bullimore, Private Thomas 70

Burwell 110

bushfire 110

bushrangers

Black Caesar 128, 21618

Bustamante y Guerra, Jos 185, 2023, 2067

Calcutta 193, 194, 1956, 198, 242

Caley, George 129, 287

Callander, John Terra Australis Cognita 10

Calvert, General Harry 180

Camden, Lord 179, 253

Camp Cove 81

Campbell, Robert 264

Campbelltown 144

Canary Islands 4951

Cape Horn 94, 95

Cape of Good Hope 28, 57, 63, 94, 95

Cape Town 28, 656

First Fleet 669, 71

Sirius resupply visit 936

Cape York Peninsular 2

capital offences 4, 86, 87, 91, 238

carpenters 90

Castle Hill uprising 238, 23947

martial law 243, 247

punishments 2467

Castlereagh, Lord 262, 2634, 266, 269

Catchpole, Margaret 1413

Chappell, Ann 172

Charlotte 26, 38, 47, 63, 75, 223

charting coastline 2, 71, 167, 169, 171, 1723, 190

children 33

illegitimate and abandoned 137, 14750

orphan schools 147, 149

Christian, Fletcher 225, 250, 252

church first 90

civil magistrates

powers of transferred to marines 153