 Leaving his son behind, James Ainslie traveled to New South Wales, Australia in the ship "Admiral Cockburn", arriving in February 1825.He was recruited by Robert Campbell in 1825 to establish a sheep station in the Limestone Plains of New South Wales.On his way from Bathurst to find an appropriate site for a sheep station, Ainslie and his convict labourers came across a terrified group of Aboriginal Australians near Booroowa.