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*[https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/collections-and-research/guides-and-indexes/community-access-points-0 '''Community Access Points'''] A list of libraries and archives which hold microcopies of the Archive Resource Kit records<br> | *[https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/collections-and-research/guides-and-indexes/community-access-points-0 '''Community Access Points'''] A list of libraries and archives which hold microcopies of the Archive Resource Kit records<br> | ||
==Background== | |||
===Land Grants=== | |||
*Governor Phillip, in 25 April 1787, was empowered to grant land to '''emancipists'''. Each male was entitled to 30 acres, an additional 20 acres if married, and 10 acres for each child with him in the settlement at the time of the grant. | |||
*To encourage free settlers to the colony, Phillip received additional Instructions dated 20 August 1789 entitling '''non-commissioned Marine officers''' to 100 acres and privates to 50 acres, over and above the quantity allowed to convicts. | |||
*Other settlers coming to the colony were also to be given grants. | |||
*In 1825, the sale of land by private tender began. | |||
*In a despatch dated 9 January 1831, Viscount Goderich instructed that no more free grants (except those already promised) be given. All land was thenceforth to be sold at public auction. <ref>"New South Wales, Australia, Land Grants, 1788-1963", at Ancestry, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/5117/, accessed 8 March 2022.</ref> | |||
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[[Category:New South Wales, Australia]] | [[Category:New South Wales, Australia]] | ||