William Lawson and Veteran Hall Traditional Cache
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Ngaambul - Matt
William Lawson and Veteran Hall
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This cache is here to celebrate one of Australia most remembered names who's property this cache now adjoins and achieved many other things besides Please place back exactly as found
I arrived in Australia before 1800, was trained as a surveyor and paid my way to australia for £300 as an ensign. I married Sarah Leadbeater on Norfolk island then returned and was promoted lieutenant for a time as commandant at Coal River (Newcastle) I bought a small property at Concord which expanded to 370 acres As an officer I also acted on several courts martial, including those of D'Arcy Wentworth (for allegedly misusing the labour of sick convicts for his private advantagee and was apponted the aide-de-camp to George Johnson (the leader the soldiers during the battle of vinegar hill and the rum rebellion- deposing of Governor Bligh and appointed himself lieutenant-governor) I was granted 500 acres (2 km²) at Prospect, which I named Veteran Hall and built a 18-room mansion where my wife lived when I was sent to England as a witness at Johnston's court martial. I was invited to the attempt to cross the Blue Mountins in 1813 by other partys I became one of the largest land-holders in Australia.(almost 200,000 acres)after being rewarded with a grant of 1000 acres for my feats I am reputed to have taken the first stock across the mountains in July 1815 I made the first discovery of coal to the west of the mountains at Hartley Vale I was commander of the Bathurst settlement for some time I was a magistrate and entered freely into public life and on 10 October 1825 I signed a letter approving trial by jury. I was elected as a member for Cumberland in the first partly-elective Legislative Council member of the New South Wales Legislative Council On 16 June 1850 I was known as 'Old Ironbark' when I died at Veteran Hall, and was buried in the churchyard of St Bartholomew Veteran Hall was used by the Water Board as a residence and office for its Engineer-in-Charge, Head Works until 1912, when it was taken over as an Army Remount Depot. At this stage the large rooms were divided, giving rise to incorrect statements that it was a 40-roomed mansion. Most of my land is now submerged by the waters of Prospect reservoir and my property demolition occurred in 1929 and the stone was used in a wall at Vaucluse House and the bricks were used to build cottages at Granville. These cottages were demolished to make way for the F4 and the bricks used for filling under the ramp to the bridge
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