Maitland, from Old Molly Morgan's days ...

By Emma Swain
Updated July 5 2012 - 10:30am, first published May 4 2012 - 6:35am
RICH HISTORY: Maitland Heritage Officer Clare James at Glebe Cemetery where some of the settlers are buried.
RICH HISTORY: Maitland Heritage Officer Clare James at Glebe Cemetery where some of the settlers are buried.

A book uncovering central Maitland’s first community of European descent is close to publication. The book provides an expose on the lives of a small but diverse society made up of convict settlers, placed by Governor Macquarie on farms along the banks of the Hunter River between Morpeth and close to Elgin Street.

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