In the Service of the Company - Vol 2: Letters of Sir Edward Parry, Commissioner to the Australian Agricultural Company: June 1832 - March 1834

The Australian Agricultural Company was formed in London in April 1824 to raise fine woolled sheep on a Crown Grant in the Colony of New South Wales. The labour-force was to consist mainly of assigned convicts, but the Company was to send out overseers, shepherds, mechanics and other servants, together with a supply of pure-bred Merino sheep, cattle and horses. The first Company 'Establishment' sailed from England in June 1825 on the York and the Brothers - under the direction of the Compan...