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First Fleeters – What did they do?

May 4, 2017 by Cheryl Timbury

Some First Fleeters’ and the jobs they did:

Augustus Alt, Surveyor

Thomas Arndell, Assistant Surgeon

Henry Lidgbird Ball, Captain of Supply

William Balmain, Assistant Surgeon, later principal Surgeon

Lieutenant William Bradley, author of journal, water colourist

Henry Brewer, clerk to Phillip, Provost Marshall, administrator

Ralph Clark, 2nd Lieutenant , author of journal

David Collins, Judge Advocate, author

Dennis Considen, assistant surgeon

Lieutenant William Dawes, Engineer, Surveyor, Humanitarian

James Furzer, Quarter-Master

Henry Hacking, Quartermaster settler, explorer

John Hunter, Captain of Sirius, later 2nd governor of the colony

Thomas Jamison, surgeon’s mate

Richard Johnson, Chaplain

Lieutenant George Johnston, later commander of NSW Corps

Philip Gidley King, 2nd Lieutenant, later Lieutenant Governor of Norfolk Island, and

3rd Governor of the Colony

John Long, Adjutant

Andrew Miller, Commissary

Captain Arthur Phillip of the Navy, Governor and Commander in Chief of the territory

of New South Wales, and of his Majesty’s ships and vessels employed on that coast

George Raper, midshipman, notable illustrator

Major Robert Ross, Lieutenant Governor and commander of the marines

Lieutenant Arthur Bowes Smyth, assistant surgeon, author of journal

Captain Watkin Tench, author

Private William Tunks, farmer, landowner and member of the NSW Corps

John White, Principal Surgeon

George Worgan, Surgeon of the Sirius

Lieutenant John Shortland, Agent for the Transports

(List compiled by K Richardson)

 

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