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- 1847-1856 (Creation)
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2 volumes
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Biographical history
Thomas Samuel Stewart was the Commissariat Storekeeper at Norfolk Island when it was finally abandoned as a convict settlement. He remained on the island with five of the best behaved convicts to act as caretakers until the new settlers from Pitcairn's ... »
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
On loan to the Royal Society of Tasmania from the Tasmanian Museum, (purchased from Mrs. E. de Jersey, 1943)
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Scope and content
Garrison order book for the 96th Regiment dated 6 April 1847 - 9 March 1848. Also daily record book kept by Thomas Samuel Stewart who was the Commissariat Storekeeper at Norfolk Island when it was finally abandoned as a convict settlement.
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Conditions governing reproduction
This material is made available for personal research and study purposes under the University of Tasmania Standard Copyright Licence. For any further use permission should be obtained from the copyright owners. For assistance please contact Special.Collections@utas.edu.au
Publication note
Thomas Samuel Stewart's journal : Norfolk Island 1855, waiting for the Pitcairn Islanders / edited by Leanne Chambers and Merval Hoare. http://encore.lib.utas.edu.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1277952
Publication note
RST P&P article - Downing, Charles Toogood 1859 , '0n Norfolk Island, its character and productions.' ,
Papers & Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, vol. 3, no. 2 , pp. 195-212 . https://eprints.utas.edu.au/19359/
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Dates of creation revision deletion
HE May2020