Our Past | How Lachlan Macquarie gave land to well behaved convicts

By Chas Keys
Updated June 22 2020 - 8:15am, first published 8:00am
INCENTIVE TO CONVICTS: Lachlan Macquarie.
INCENTIVE TO CONVICTS: Lachlan Macquarie.

Lachlan Macquarie, the fifth Governor of NSW, played a major part in the settlement of the Maitland area. It was he who gave the orders to establish small farming settlements at Patersons Plains and Wallis Plains, in 1812 and 1818 respectively.

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