Samuel A Blackman Esquire

   Ancestral File Number: 12WT-MK6.

  General Notes:

1809 Aug Produce received from at the Hawkesbury Stores (Reel 6040; 9/2673 p.82)

1809 Sep 24 Juror at inquest on George Rouse held at Richmond (Reel 6021; 4/1819 pp.611-2)

1811 Jun 12 Of Hawkesbury. On list of persons to receive grants of land in different parts of the Colony as soon as they can be measured; at Mulgoa (Fiche 3266; 9/2652 p.8)

1812 Sep 12 Permitted to draw cattle from Government herds on credit (Reel 6038; SZ758 p.315)

1820 Mar 21 Received payment at Sydney for meat and grain delivered into the Commissariat Stores at Liverpool (Reel 6049; 4/1744 p.384 & 4/1745 p.34)

1820 Apr 30 District Constable of Cooke and Poundkeeper. On list of constables of Bringelly and Cooke (Reel 6049; 4/1744 p.320)

1820 Sep 18 On list of persons for whom grants of land have been handed over to the Surveyor General for delivery (Fiche 3266; 9/2652 p.59)

1820 Nov 18-1821 Feb 9 Store receipts of for wheat and fresh pork paid at Sydney and Liverpool (Reel 6051; 4/1748 pp.142, 147, 171)

1822 Mar 6 Resigned as constable in the District of Cooke (Reel 6039; 4/424 p.46)

1822 Aug Signatory to petition objecting to the Commissariat's new system of paying for supplies in Spanish dollars (Reel 6017; 4/5783 p.124b)

1822 Oct 12; 1823 Jan 31 Of Cooke. On list of persons receiving an assigned convict (Fiche 3290; 4/4570D pp.21, 54)

1823 Mar 31-Sep 30 On lists of persons to whom convict mechanics have been assigned (Fiche 3296; X53 pp.56, 71)

1823 Aug 4 Convict landed from "Recovery" assigned to at Liverpool (Reel 6011; 4/3509 p.4)

1824 c.Apr, Oct 8 On list of defaulters in payment for assigned convict mechanics (Reel 6061, 4/1778 p.265b; Fiche 3293, 5/3821.1 p.1)

1824 c.Jul On account of rents received for assigned convict tradesmen for the three quarters ending 30 Jun 1824 (Reel 6061; 4/1779 p.173a)

1824 Aug 26, Nov 24 Memorials for a ticket of occupation and a grant of land (Fiche 3078; 4/1836A No.71 pp.341-6). Replies, 24 Nov 1824 and 8 Jul 1825 (Reel 6014; 4/3513 p.33 & 4/3514 p.610)

1824 Sep On return of grain on hand in the Districts of Bringelly and Cooke (Reel 6061; 4/1780 p.258a)

1825 Of Bringelly. Memorial (Fiche 3120; 4/1840B No.56 p.333). Reply, 17 Jun (Reel 6014; 4/3514 p.512)

1825 Aug Farmer. On list of persons liable to serve as jurors in the district of Liverpool (Reel 6062; 4/1782 p.78b)

  Burial Notes:

Cobbitty, St Paul's Curch of England.

  Noted events in his life were:

• He immigrated per Canada on 14 Dec 1801 to Sydney, Cumberland County, New South Wales. ³

• Land grant: 50 acres, 1812, Cook County, New South Wales. ⁵

• He was involved in a court case on 1 Apr 1833 in Supreme Court of New South Wales, Cumberland County, Sydney, New South Wales. ⁶ Rodd v. Townshend [www.butterworths.com.a]
Supreme Court of New South Wales
Dowling J., 1 April 1833
Source: Sydney Herald, 4 April 1833
MONDAY. - Before Judge Dowling and the following Common Jury: Robert Cooper Foreman; J. Bulsover, T. Cooper, A. Badgery, J. Greg, E. Glendon, S. Bowler, S. Blackman, E. W. Bayliss, J. Burn. L. Cohen, and J. Carter.

• He owned land sheep farming between 1820 and 1830 in Bigga, Georgiana County, New South Wales. ⁷ They produced some of the finest wool in the colony of NSW.

• Inventory: 23 Apr 1830, Abercrombie River, Georgiana County, New South Wales. ^{5 8} He owned
22 horses @ £22/0/0 per head,
300 horney cattle @ £3/0/0 per head,
1500 sheep @ 10/- per head,
30 @ £1/0/0 per headpigs,
500 bushells of Maize 4/-,
2 Carts @ £20/0/0,
1 Dray @ £10/0/0,
3 Ploughs @ £10/0/0.

• He owned land at sandy creek in 1835 in Bigga, Georgiana County, New South Wales. ⁵ Purchased for £200/0/0.

• He has conflicting death information of 24 Nov 1847. ⁹

• He owned sold the wool farm to son in law Tom McGuiness in 1848 in Bigga, Georgiana County, New South Wales. ⁷

• Other: Febuary 1980, Bigga, Georgiana County, New South Wales, Australia. ¹⁰ In Febuary 1980 the unnamed strees in Bigga were named Marks, Hailston, Hearn, Blackman and Tranter.

• He owned land in 1836 in Tuena, Georgiana County, New South Wales. ¹¹ Samuel was the first land holder in Tuena.

Samuel married Mary Hotkisson, daughter of Thomas Hoskisson and Sarah Pigg, on 1 Nov 1814 in Windsor, Cumberland County, New South Wales.¹ (Mary Hotkisson was born on 20 May 1795 in Windsor, Cumberland County, New South Wales ¹², christened on 18 Oct 1795 in Sydney, Cumberland County, New South Wales,¹³ died on 10 Sep 1857 in Cobbitty, Cumberland County, New South Wales and was buried on 12 Sep 1857 in Cobbitty, Cumberland County, New South Wales ^{3 4 13}.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Alt. Marriage: St Matthews, 8 Nov 1814, Windsor, Cumberland County, New South Wales. ¹⁴

  Marriage Notes:

married by Banns at St Matthew's Church of England.
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