Hartley Court House - 1837 to 1937

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HARTLEY AND ITS COURT-HOUSE. 5 B o w e n fe ls H assan s W a lls Mt.York Scale 4 i i Miles R iv e r of V ic to ria M t V ic to ria valleys about Hartley. The western edge of the Blue Mountains is shown by cliffs of horizontal sandstone ; the valleys and ridges to the west are mainly granite. 1. Old Bathurst Road. 2. M itchell’s Road. (Diagram by F . Craft.) “ frightful tremendous Pass They continued to the junction of the River Lett and Cox’s Eiver, where they encamped on the evening of April 29. Here the next day they held the first Divine service west of the Blue Mountains. The valley’s first white inhabitants were Government stockmen and those of private individuals. Recognising the value of the good pasture country for stock Macquarie lost little time after his tour in establishing a stock station for herds near Mount York, but W . Hassall, the Superintendent of Government Stock, finding that a great number of the herd had died through the severe cold of the winter, m oved the station to Glenroy which was a sunnier situation. The following year, 1816, stockyards and huts were built there. Possibly the
10 6 HARTLEY AND ITS COURT-HOUSE.___________ usefulness of this good grazing valley for Government stock was instrumental in retarding individual settlement prior to 1821. In that year Pierce Collits of the Nepean had temporary occupation of an area near Mount Blaxland under what was then called a Ticket of Occupation. It was in this year also, the last of his term of office, that Macquarie issued the first Orders for land to individuals in the Yale of Clwydd for permanent settlement. These Orders were issued to Edward Field, sen., of Evan, for eighty acres on Butler’s Creek, and later passed to William Field, John Grant of Liverpool, fifty acres known as “ Moyne Farm ” , near the foot of Mount Victoria, and W illiam Orrell of Sydney, two hundred acres near Blaxland’s Swamp. The areas were in three totally different parts of the valley, the north-eastern, southern and western locations. S e t t l e m e n t I n t e n s i f ie s . W ith the advent of Governor Brisbane and altered regulations regarding land grants, settlement in the valley showed some activity. W ith a view to preserving land for future Government purposes, action was taken about 1823 to reserve a tract of approximately 4,000 acres extending three miles up the Eiver Lett from a little south of Glenroy. It had a, width of two miles and covered land on both sides of the river. This reserve was not encroached upon for settlement until after M itchell’s new road down the western side of the Blue Mountains was opened in 1832. The first of Governor Brisbane’s Orders for land in this locality were issued in 1823 to J. Birt and E. Fellows, each receiving one hundred acres at Blaxland’s Swamp. It was late in the same year that John W ood of Bringelly obtained a Ticket of Occupation for 3,000 acres about the same spot, only a scrubby hill dividing it from Collits on the north. In 1824 promises by Brisbane were honoured by Orders for land to Bobert Martin, sen., of Mulgrave Place, Eobert Martin, jun., o f Eichm ond, and John Hall of the Nepean. These were at the Mount Y ork end of the valley. It was during this year that penetration of the country down Cox’s Eiver from the vicinity o f Lowther Creek began and Orders for large areas were given to settlers. These were James, Nathaniel and John Norton. W illiam Eedfern and Thomas Wills. The following year Pierce Collits, wiio had already established his inn at the foot of Mount
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