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	John Batman - ArticleWorld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		John Batman was born in 1801 in Sydney but moved to Tasmania to become a farmer and businessman.
		To legalise the exchange, Batman on his part signed a treaty he had prepared and the tribal leaders are said to have signed their agreement.
		For many years, Batman was praised for at least some attempt at paying the local tribe for their land instead of just taking what he wanted and doing away with the original inhabitants.
	www.articleworld.org /index.php/John_Batman (419 words)

	Batman 170th - Treaty Past, Treaty Present
		Batman distributed ‘8 pairs of blankets, 30 handkerchiefs, 1 tomahawk, 18 necklaces of beads, 6 pounds of sugar, 12 looking glasses, and a quantity of apples.’ In exchange the women gave Batman three handmade baskets and several spears.
		According to Batman, the guide led him to the ‘chiefs’ of the tribe whose marks allegedly appear on the treaty that Batman later used to claim an area of land on behalf of the Port Phillip Association.
		John Batman spent the final few years of his life trying to reclaim rights to the land he claimed to have legitimately purchased.
	www.antarvictoria.org.au /Batman/story.htm (876 words)

	VtM - Character (Great Minds): John
		John continued to work through his Ghouls in mortal Parliment, and directly with the Ventrue of Melbourne from whom he leant the ability to Dominate those who were mortal, or lesser than he.
		When John arose, he realised that Melbourne was no longer his city, it had grown beyond the boundaries he had always imagined of it, and was beginning to stretch to the settlements that were once country towns, and engulfing them.
		John has a couple of pieces of jewellery: a silver ring that Rachel gave him, engraved with her name on the inside, and a pair of gold cufflinks, that he is very fond of, and normally wears.
	vampirerpg.free.fr /Characters/GM/John.html (1329 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography Ba
		Batman's efforts were commended by the governor, Colonel Arthur (q.v.), and a further grant of 2000 acres of land was made to him.
		Batman tells us he explained fully to them what his object was, but it is problematical what the aborigines thought they were doing when they affixed their marks to Batman's documents.
		Batman certainly wrote in his diary "This will be the place for a village", but it is not unlikely that he was more concerned with obtaining grazing country than founding a town.
	gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogBa.html (19967 words)

	Comic Creator Interview - John Van Fleet - Artist
		John: I do far more interior images than covers as it is the cover work I do is a break from the day to day comics I am involved with at any given time.
		John: I went to art school right out of high school so I guess you could say I was leaning that way since the 8th grade and in truth before that.
		John: Batman is a blast, I would find it hard to pass on a good bat story.
	www.southside.za.net /interviews/johnvanfleet.htm (848 words)

	John Batman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		John Batman was an Australian farmer and businessman who was one of the first settlers of the Melbourne area.
		Batman was born in Rose Hill, Parramatta (now a suburb of Sydney), and spent time in Tasmania (then called Van Diemen's Land) where he began farming, initially on granted land, but his holdings gradually expanded through purchases.
		Batman claims to have negotiated a treaty with some local Aborigines to rent their land on an annual basis for a quantity of items such as knives and flour.
	www.grandpapencil.com /austral/batman.htm (350 words)

	TNMC Movie Reviews: John Q
		John Q is a drama that wants to take an uncomfortably close look at our health care system to expose it's failures and shortcomings.
		John and his wife fight to get every penny they can but its not enough and the hospital is about to discharge their son.
		Desperate, John gets a gun and takes the emergency room hostage until his son is placed on the list.
	www.tnmc.org /batcave/johnq.shtml (697 words)

	John Batman
		Batman's father was transported to Australia as a receiver of stolen goods, and John Batman was born in Sydney.
		Batman had been diagnosed with syphilis in 1833 (was it contracted from his wife or elsewhere?) which progressively disfigured his face and left him unable to walk.
		John Batman's final indignity occurred when he was exhumed from his grave in the Old Melbourne Cemetery and re-buried in the cemetery named after his arch rival - Fawkner Cemetery.
	www.whitehat.com.au /Melbourne/People/Batman.asp (1411 words)

	John W. Batman
		John W. Batman was only an infant when his father, John Batman, died.
		John Batman was born near Lexington, Kentucky, and spent his brief career as a farmer.
		John W. Batman had a bringing up on the farm, acquired his education in the district schools and a brief time at a select school, and lived in the homes of his two step-fathers.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1919ks/b/batmanjw.html (1088 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Founding a new settlement requires much spadework and for John Batman, on behalf of a small syndicate in Van Diemen's Land, the most important task was to sign a treaty with the aborigines, hopefully to avoid the problems that had occurred in that state.
		Batman's diary entries are confusing but it is accepted that the treaty took place with chiefs of the Wurendjeri tribe, on the north side of the Merri Creek, abreast of Rushall Station, Westgarth.
		Governor Arthur in Hobart was in favour of Batman's new settlement.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~pioneers/pppg5n.htm (574 words)

	Batman, John (1801 - 1839) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		BATMAN, JOHN (1801-1839), pioneer of Melbourne, was born on 21 January 1801 in New South Wales.
		John, the second son, was apprenticed flsmith at Sydney in 1816.
		In December 1821 John Batman and the third son, Henry, moved to Van Diemen's Land, and a girl of uncertain origin, Eliza Thompson, convicted at 17 as Elizabeth Callaghan, disembarked at Hobart Town under sentence for passing a counterfeit bank note in London.
	www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A010066b.htm (2475 words)

	History of Melbourne
		In early 1835, spurred on by Henty's example, Batman crossed Bass Strait and in June 1835 infamously 'purchased' the land on the western shore of Port Phillip from the local Aborigines.
		John Batman came to Port Phillip Bay in May 1835 and 'paid' the local Aboriginal people in blankets and trinkets for about 243,000 acres of land which included what is now Melbourne.
		John Batman had set aside part of the land he had acquired from the Aboriginals for a township.
	www.ripefruit.com /melbourne/history.htm (2122 words)

	John Batman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Batman (born 21 January 1801 - 5 May 1839) was an Australian farmer and businessman who was one of the first British settlers of the Melbourne area.
		Batman negotiated a treaty, now known as Batman's Treaty, with some local Aborigines to rent their land on an annual basis for a quantity of items such as knives and flour.
		His direct descendant is Australian sprinter Daniel Batman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Batman (462 words)

	Batman's Statue Tried for War Crimes
		The march was designed to highlight the 161st anniversary of the official declaration of war against the Tasmanian Aborigines by Governor Arthur on October 7th, 1830, and the establishment of the "Black Line", a massive official military operation designed to exterminate the Tasmanian Aborigines.
		The march focused on John Batman, the "founder of Melbourne", who was instrumental in the attempted genocide of Tasmanian Aborigines before arriving in the Port Phillip region and continuing to dispossess and destroy Koori peoples here.
		After he spoke, activists climbed the fence at the Supreme court en masse to serve eviction notices on the building, highlighting the basic illegality of this institution on Aboriginal land and the inappropriate and unjust nature of the laws and values it represents in relation to its treatment of Aboriginal peoples.
	www.kooriweb.org /gst/genocide/batman.html (515 words)

	John Batman - Melburnian - Reference - Melbourne Online - Only Melbourne
		John Batman a founder of Melbourne, was born at Parramatta, New South Wales, on 21 January 1801.
		John Batman's Treaty, signed on the banks of a creek [thought to be Merri Creek] on 16 June 1835, was an agreement with eight Aboriginal leaders to transfer the land of the Port Phillip area to Batman.
		Rex Harcourt argues that it irrelevant whether John Batman was on board that day as it was recognised from Surveyor Grimes' work in 1803 that there was only one place for a settlement in the Port Phillip area.
	www.onlymelbourne.com.au /melbourne_details.php?id=9797 (367 words)

	Redreaming the Plain: an e-journal about sustainability
		John Batman was born in New South Wales, the son of a convict.
		Batman had become convinced that it was unjust simply to seize Aboriginal land.
		Spurred on by a combination of idealism and self-interest, Batman sailed for Port Phillip Bay in the winter of 1835, bearing the draft of a 'treaty' to be signed by the local people.
	www.redreaming.info /DisplayStory.asp?id=70 (476 words)

	John Batman
		John Batman was the only native born Australian to found an Australian capital city.
		It was the newspaper reports of the Hume and Hovell expedition which encouraged Batman to later explore and settle that region.
		In 1816 at the age of fifteen John became an apprentice flsmith and wheelwright.
	www.doingmyhomework.com /show_essay/2181.html (126 words)

	VBForums - Bat icon
		Batman, although you might want a symbol for yourself, think about the other 10000 memebers that might want a personal representation of themselves too.
		But seriously, there's noone like batman, and if batman will get his icon, i swear nobody else will get their icons; you know mossuperman, anyone else will will end up like him if they try to get a fake identitiy and try to make themselves like batman.
		John, PLEASE give Batman an icon, he really deserves it, he brings MOST of the people on this forum HUMOR, and I think it would be even more fun if we could call him using a special bat icon..
	www.vbforums.com /printthread.php?t=21643 (1626 words)

	Batman's Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Batman's Hill in Melbourne was named for the Tasmanian adventurer and grazier John Batman.
		Settled by Batman in 1837 it served as his base for a few years.
		The western slope of Batman's Hill was sold to the government in 1847 and a powder magazine was built.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Batman's_Hill (198 words)

	aborigines history about john batman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		John Batman was born in Rose Hill Parramatta in N.S.W., Australia on the 21st of the first 1801.He was the third son of William Batman who arrived in 1797 in the convict ship Garger.
		Batman moved to Tasmania were he bought a 240 hectare home, which later grow to 2800 hectares
		Batman travelled to Geelong on the 29th of may 1835,then Melbourne.
	www.eps.vic.edu.au /history/johnbatman.htm (148 words)

	John Helder Wedge's Field Book, page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Surveyor and explorer, John Helder Wedge (1793-1872) was born in Shudy Camps, Cambridge.
		Batman and his party entered Port Phillip Bay on 29 May 1835, anchored near the heads, and journeyed through the countryside.
		Batman then returned to Launceston to report to the Port Phillip Association, leaving some of his party behind with instructions to build a hut and establish a garden.
	www.slv.vic.gov.au /collections/treasures/jhw2.html (383 words)

	The Biography of Early Australia
		John Helder Wedge (q.v.) a project to send an exploring expedition across the Strait.
		Sir Ralph Darling (q.v.) applying for a grant of land on the mainland, and suggesting that it should be proportionate to the amount of stock proposed to be sent over under the management of Batman, who would permanently settle there.
		John Pascoe Fawkner (q.v.) sailed up the Yarra and started to make a settlement on the site of Melbourne.
	www.bendigolive.com /australia/b/batman1.htm (1161 words)

	John Batman Group - compendiums, binders, folders, menus, menu, stands, covers, bill, coat, hangers, lady, hygiene, ...
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		John Batman Group is a family owned and operated business established in 1963.
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	www.johnbatman.com (164 words)

	History should have no divide - General - In Depth - theage.com.au
		A monument to John Batman at Queen Victoria Market states that in 1835, he founded the settlement of what is now Melbourne, "then unoccupied".
		Eidelson says Batman "bought" 200,000 hectares of land, on behalf of a Tasmanian property syndicate, off Aboriginal elders in exchange for ££100 worth of blankets, beads, axes and mirrors.
		Eidelson says the treaty was "a self-interested, speculative and crooked venture" by Batman and his friends, but may have been fairer than the zero compensation deal the British government offered.
	www.theage.com.au /news/General/Redefining-city-limits/2005/06/02/1117568309920.html (578 words)

	perplexus.info :: Logic : Nicknames
		Four friends: Dave, Mike, John, and Terry, are nicknamed Stick, Batman, Atomic Head, and Feaser, but not in that order.
		John is faster than Batman but not as strong as Atomic Head.
		Batman is stronger than Terry but slower than Feaser.
	perplexus.info /show.php?pid=4276&cid=29500 (223 words)

	Letter might have delivered treaty - Books - www.theage.com.au
		It wasn't John Batman who founded Melbourne with the immortal words, "This will be the spot for a village".
		Writing to Batman in Tasmania from the Port Phillip district on August 10, 1835, Wedge said: "From what I have at present seen, I think the freshwater river at the head of the Port will be the place.
		It was sent in June 1835 to the British secretary for the colonies, Lord Glenelg, urging him to support their claims to land, based on Batman's treaty with the Port Phillip Aborigines.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/02/20/1077072828533.html (704 words)

	Early Melbourne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		A small group of huts, called Batmania, on the shores of the Yarra River in 1835 grew to be the beautiful city of Melbourne, the capital of Victoria.
		John Batman was born in Parramatta, New South Wales, and settled near Ben Lomond in Tasmania in 1821.
		Fawkner, born in London, had settled in Launceston in 1819 and established the newspaper The Launceston Advertiser.
	www.grandpapencil.com /austral/melbourn.htm (206 words)

	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		One was John Batman and the other was John Pascoe Fawkner.
		John Batman offered the Aboriginies blankets, axes and tools for their land.
		The first white settlers called the area Bearbrass but it was later named Melbourne after the British Prime Minster, Lord Melbourne.
	www.schools.ash.org.au /twps/wwkids/133.html (517 words)

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