George Boyle White surveyor, colonial citizen, diarist: Volume 1 George Boyle White of the Hunter Valley
- ISBN-10
- 0992533600
- ISBN-13
- 9780992533601
- Category
- Farmers
- Pages
- 169
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-07-03
- Publisher
- Les Dalton
- Authors
- Jenny McCarthy, Les Dalton, Susan Tracey
Description
In 1826, George Boyle White, then just twenty-four years old, arrived at Sydney Cove from Calcutta. He had served as navigator in the East India Company for seven years. While employed for a short time as a clerk in the Colonial Secretary’s office he learned the skills of a land surveyor. Appointed assistant surveyor in the Surveyor General’s Department he set out Maitland and other major towns in the Hunter Valley region. Surveyor General, Thomas Mitchell, appointed White second-in-charge of his first expedition into the interior. In his report on the expedition Mitchell judged White to be “an accurate and indefatigable surveyor”.
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