his family at Pennant Hills "following agricultural pursuits" on a 100-acre grant previously given to him by Governor Macquarie. (2) Milson was shown a plan delineating the land in his name and that this sufficed as legal ownership in the early colony. However there is no legal precedent for this assertion. (3) Milson built his house on "Milson's Point" shortly after his marriage in 1810. However in the years after his marriage James Milson lived at the "Field of Mars". in addition to the memorial of 5 June 1820 establishing residence for himself and his family at that time at Pennant Hills (in the "Field of Mars", district of Parramatta), in Milson's own words in the years before 1825 he had "principally resided in District of Parramatta". He did not build a residence at Milsons Point in the District of Sydney shortly after his marriage in 1810. (4) No actual acreage was stated and this fact weakened Milson's case in the subsequent legal dispute between himself and Campbell over title to the land that included Milson's Orchard. However this case did indeed mention acreage, and was not about who owned the land. Milson lost his case against Campbell based on non-payment of a lease agreement between himself and Campbell. The case mentioned that Milson leased a farm of 120 acres (48ha) from Robert Campbell. In this case Milson did not purport to own the land that he was leasing. Milson instead referred to Campbell's absence of proof of title which made it impossible to ascertain the boundary between the 120 acres (48ha) that Milson leased from Campbell, and the adjoining "very large portion of land" (acreage not stated in the case but known to be 50 acres (20ha)) that Milson had received as a grant from Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane in August 1824. It is true, however, that Milson did dispute Campbells ownership of the land during the nearly 3 years from 1828 that he ceased paying rent. During this time Milson wrote to the Surveyor-General and Governor Ralph Darling in an attempt to have the land recognised as his own instead of Robert Campbell's. The reply that Milson received on 13 March 1829 was that he could not obtain the land as it was the property of Robert Campbell, and that the land that Milson owned (the adjoining 50 acres) was already measured and marked out. Versions of this