Moreton Bay Pilot, James Hexton. Allow me for a few minutes to draw attention to an old colonial celebrity, the Pilot stationed at Stradbroke Island, the late Mr James Hexton. He’s dead now and has been for some years, having met a sailor’s death in the performance of his duty, meeting his sad fate inContinue reading “The Old Man of the Sea.”
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The Infernal Vagabond of a Woman
In April 1840, a young convict servant to Mr Robert Dixon, a Surveyor at Moreton Bay, was sent to Sydney on the Cutter John. Unusually, her fare and rations were paid directly by Mr Dixon, rather than the Government. A year later, she would figure in a trial at Moreton Bay that arose from aContinue reading “The Infernal Vagabond of a Woman”
