violent assault towards James Murphy, one of his assigned servants: Sydney Gazette, 3 November 1825 POLICE REPORT. MONDAY, OCT. 24. This day, a prisoner of the crown named James Murphy, a government servant to a Mr. Milsom,[sic] preferred a complaint against his master for beating, bruising, and otherwise ill treating him; the marks of which violence were very visible on his person, and the Bench deeming this not only a violation of the Government Orders, as they extend to the protection of servants of the crown, but also an outrage on humanity, they ordered the master to stand committed to take his trial at the Quarter Sessions; bail, was however accepted for his appearance, and the complainant sent to the Barracks until his evidence shall be required. According to a letter from James Murphy the case had also been reported in an earlier edition of the "Sydney Gazette" dated Thursday 18 October 1825. As a result of this publicly reported assault charge James Milson had a letter written to the Editor of the Sydney Gazette giving his side of the story. Bruising that the magistrates had called "an outrage on humanity" Milson underplayed as a strike on the face. This letter reveals in James Milson's own words details of his farm and business dealings: Milson had horned cattle grazing near Castle Hill. This agrees with the memorial to Governor Macquarie of 1820 stating that then he had a 100-acre farm at Pennant Hills (in the Field of Mars); Milson had dairy (milch) cattle in the District of Sydney (which included the North Shore of Port Jackson); Milson had a boat from which he daily supplied milk to shipping on Port Jackson; Milson for the past 15 years (1810–1825) had employed from 2 to 4 assigned convict servants; Milson had in the period before 1825 principally resided in the District of Parramatta (which includes the Field of Mars); Milson was then living on the North Shore of Port Jackson opposite Sydney. Sydney Gazette, 3 November 1825 TO THE EDITOR OF THE SYDNEY GAZETTE. North Shore, October 30, 1825. SIR,-Perceiving in your Gazette of Thursday, the 18th Instant, a certain Article, under the Head of Police Report, at Sydney, respecting Mr. JAMES MILSOM being brought forward on a Charge of his assigned Servant, James Murphy, for committing a violent Assault on his person; and as some officious person has falsely stated the