where did the free settlers settle in australia
Liberty Plains
title: History of Australia text: February 1793 the first free settlers arrived. The settlers: Thomas Rose, with his wife and four children, Edward Powell, Thomas Webb, Joseph Webb, and Frederick Meredith. After the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788, Australia was divided into an eastern half, named New South Wales, under the administration of the colonial government in Sydney, and a western half named New Holland. The western boundary of 135° East of Greenwich was based on the "Complete Map of the Southern Continent", published in Emanuel Bowen's "Complete System of Geography" (London 1747), and reproduced in John Campbell's editions of title: Immigration history of Australia text: continued to the colonies of Van Diemen's Land (where settlement began in 1803) and Moreton Bay (founded 1824, and later renamed Queensland) for some years longer. The small settlement of Perth, founded in 1829 on the Swan River in Western Australia by free settlers, failed to prosper and asked for convicts. In contrast, South Australia, with its capital Adelaide founded in 1836, and Victoria, with its capital Melbourne founded in 1839, was settled only by free settlers. South Australia not only received British migrants, but also a significant influx of Prussian farmers and tradesmen, initially seeking freedom from religious persecution. title: History of Australia (1788–1850) text: transport came to anchor in Sydney Cove on 16 January 1793, she brought with her the first immigrant free settlers. They were: Thomas Rose, a farmer from Dorset, his wife and four children; he was allowed a grant of 120 acres; Frederic Meredith, who had formerly been at Sydney with HMS "Sirius"; Thomas Webb (who had also been formerly at Sydney with the "Sirius"), his wife, and his nephew, Joseph Webb; Edward Powell, who had formerly been at Sydney with the "Juliana" transport, and who married a free woman after his arrival. Thomas Webb and Edward Powell each received a title: Immigration history of Australia text: Immigration history of Australia The immigration history of Australia began with the initial human migration to the continent around 80,000 years ago when the ancestors of Australian Aboriginals arrived on the continent via the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and New Guinea. From the early 17th century onwards, the continent experienced the first coastal landings and exploration by European explorers. Permanent European settlement began in 1788 with the establishment of a British penal colony in New South Wales. From early federation in 1901, Australia maintained the White Australia Policy, which was abolished after World War II, heralding the modern era title: Immigration history of Australia text: By the end of the penal transportation in 1868, approximately 165,000 people had entered Australia as convicts. From about 1815 Sydney began to grow rapidly as free settlers arrived from Britain and Ireland and new lands were opened up for farming. Despite the long and arduous sea voyage, settlers were attracted by the prospect of making a new life on virtually free land. Many settlers occupied land without authority; they were known as squatters and became the basis of a powerful landowning class. The discovery of gold, beginning in 1851 first near Bathurst in New South Wales and then in