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| | History of Our Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11) |
 | | Menzies called the settlement King's Town but the name Newcastle, given to it by coal and cedar traders four or five years earlier was more often used and King's Town was dropped entirely by about 1831. |
 | | The only reference that any of the early commandants of Newcastle, Menzies, Draffin, Throsby, Villiers, Skottowe, Thompson, Wallis and Morisett (1823), made to the Wallsend area in their despatches to Sydney was to point out that escaping convicts usually made in the direction of Mt. Sugarloaf in their endeavours to reach the settlements around Sydney. |
 | | Shortly after Henry Dongar's appointment to Newcastle in 1822 as Government Surveyor, we find him extending his activities to the Wallsend area and, as a result of this survey, the first grant of land was promised by Governor Brisbane in 1824 to Mr. |
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