OKANTS OF LAND. DUNBA!!: 43 contemplate, io terms, grants to superior officers, and Phillip reported tlmi Be vera! officers desired ** grants of land, whiuh they woidd cultivate for their own advantage while they remain in the coiuitrVi and convey to children or others on return to Europe/' He asked for *' such information on this head as your lordship may judge necesRary for my guidance.'* The capahle Henry Dundas conveyed the answer from Whitehall in July, 171)2 (having previously ordered sujjplies of '^ grain and live Htock'* to he sent from the East Indies from time to time).
- In answer to the reque^^t nmile by aeveval of the niilitary and civil
officers (jU liiive ^jrauta uf land maile to tlneni hioii they may dispose of at their departure, [ do not fiiresee that any iu^^onvtinieiicc tan arise from your cotii plying with their leifuiaitioii, provided the allntnients are made, not with a view to a teinporary, but to an «5Htabli»lied atttleiiveiit theruon — that ifii, conipreliending such portions of land and in i<ueli &itimtionB aa would he suitable for a homhfide settler, should it ever come into the hands of aiich a persou/' Previously Dundas had written :—
- With respect to the oHicera, iion- com missioned officers, and such con-
viets who^e time of transportation has expired, who propose to heeonie settlers, His Majoaty's aervaots do not think it either advisable or necea* aary to lirtdt you to any number of convicts to be aasigu^d io individuals so widely differing in sttnation of life, character, aud description ; but, from the opinion they entertain of your prudence aud fliseretion, they leAve yon to decide upon a point which must be in a great degree decifled by your knowledge of the character and ability of those to whom convictij are to be aasigned/' Dimdaa stron*^ly urged that the increase of livt; stock should l>e encouraged* Some could he ohtained h'onj the Cape of Good Hope, "hut it is to Ben^L^al that I eiiietly look for an etScient supply of that nature." He enclosed a list of emigrants'*^ who had emharked in the Bdhnia^ which " Thomas Rose (aged 40)^ farmer, from Bland fonl, Mrs. Kose (33)| Thomaa Ttose (I3(» Alary Rose fU), Joshua Rose (i>i, Richard Rose (3>, and Elizabeth Fish formed " the farmer's ftimily.' There were ako Edward Kowell (30), fanner antl iishcrman, from Lancaster ; .loaeph and Thomas Webb, farmer and gardener ; Frederick Mereditli, baker ; Janiea Thorpe, mitlwright ; au<I Walter Brrwlie, blacksmith. These pioueera id coloiiizatmn were to have grants of land, agricultural implements, two years' proviaiona, the use al convict laboiirj aud for each convict food for two yeai-s and clothing for one year. An nusucceiisful attempt wr3 made to induce fifteen Quaker fandbes to emigrate and leaven witJi their propriety the moral chaos in ^jdney. The Secreti^ry of IState reported the failute oC tlva scheme in t792»
