family tradition, or parts thereof, have been repeated as fact in many publications about the life of James Milson. The most common part of the family tradition that is repeated is that the court case between Campbell and Milson was a dispute over land title. Examples of repetition of the family tradition, or parts thereof, are found in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, the publication by Elizabeth Warne, the publication of R.H. Goddard, publications of the North Sydney Council and the North Sydney Historical Society, and the Dictionary of Sydney. Newspaper report that contains the family tradition An example of a version of the family tradition follows from the Sydney Morning Herald of 19 May 1926. Early years in the Colony of New South Wales 1806 to 1810: Employment and marriage Fellow passengers on Albion with James Milson included Robert Campbell (1769–1846) and his family, and his nephew Robert Campbell Jnr. In the long voyage the Campbells and James Milson got to know each other well. Robert Campbell was a successful merchant who also had farming interests. Robert Campbell owned land that including 900 acres (364ha) at Canterbury within six miles south-west of Sydney where he ran the largest private cattle herd in the Colony, and an undeveloped 120 acres (48ha) on the headland on the north side of Port Jackson that includes both Kirribilli Point and Milsons Point. James Milson was immigrating to begin life in the Colony as a farmer. Initially before he could obtain a land grant of his own he needed to obtain employment. A court case between Campbell and Milson in 1831 stated that Campbell was a former employer of Milson. It therefore appears that James Milson had a job with Robert Campbell on Campell's Canterbury farm even before stepping onto the shore of his new homeland. Milson next found employment at the Field of Mars in the District of Parramatta. References do not agree as to which farm he worked on in the area. On 8 January 1810 at St Philip's Church, Sydney, Milson, describing himself as a described himself as "servant and labourer", married Elizabeth Kilpack (1793–1850), the daughter of David Kilpack (c. 1757 – 1797) and Eleanor McDonald (c. 1754 – 1835), who at the time of her daughter's marriage was the wife of Thomas Edward Higgins (c. 1740 – 1829). The Australian Dictionary of Biography states that Elizabeth Kilpack was the