In
February 1791 Jacob Bellett and Ann Harper were jointly issued with a sow,
by July they held a Sydney Town lot on Norfolk Island. They had moved to a
hilly
12 acre farm at First Settler's Vale
by December 1792, and by 1796 Ann held 39 acres in
her own name adjacent to the twelve held by Jacob.
No
record has been found of a marriage certificate, but the wording of the baptismal
records of their children implies that they were married.
Jacob
Bellett was a constable with a thriving 26 acre farm in 1805. He grew wheat
and maize, owned a cow, 22 sheep, and 16 pigs. He sold 43 sheep and 16 lambs
in December 1806 for £89/10/00, and two years later owned a cow, 29 sheep,
7 hogs and 120 bushels of maize.
Jacob
and Ann Bellett and family
departed
Norfolk Island, 3rd September 1808 aboard the "City of Edinburgh"
to travel to Hobart. They left behind them
45 cleared acres, a wooden, shingled house, a barn with a boarded floor and
walls and two logged out-houses valued at £60. Jacob's stock entitlement
was £82.