Israel Leet

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Maureen Withey on 18th August 2023

Grants of Land. 542. ISRAEL LEET, 30, Thirty acres, parish unnamed, at Webb's Creek ; bounded on the south by a west line 20 chains to the rocks ; on the west by the rocks to Webb's Creek ; and on the north and east by that creek. Promised by Sir Ralph Darling on the 5th May, 1830, and possession given on 15th September following as a small grant. Quit-rent 5s sterling per annum, commencing 1st January, 1838. NSW Govt Gazette, 3 Aug 1839. -------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATH OF AN OLD RESIDENT.-On Monday, the 6th instant, Mr. Israel Leet departed this life and joined the great majority. He came to this colony in 1815, and has since for the most part resided on the Hawkesbury. He died at the residence of his nephew, Mr. Jonathan Leet, of Leet's Vale, Lower Hawkesbury, and was at the time of his death in his 94th year. He has two sisters living of the age of 90 years and 77 years respectively, and a brother 83 years, the latter being the father of Mr. Robert Leet, of Sackville Reach. All the survivors are in full possession of their faculties. The Australian, 18 Aug 1883. In the Supreme Court of New South Wales. ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION. In the will of IsraelLeet, late of Lower Portland, Hawkesbury River, in the Colony of New South Wales, farmer, deceased. NOTICE is hereby given, that after the expiration of fourteen days from the publication hereof, application will be made to this Honorable Courts in its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, that probate of the last will and testament of the said Israel Leet, who died on the sixth day of August, 1883, may be granted to John Attewell, of Lower Portland aforesaid, farmer, and Rowland Price, of Kurrajong, in the Colony aforesaid, Public School Teacher, the executors named in and appointed by the said will.—Dated the 17th day of December, 1883. RICHARD COLBY, Proctor for the Applicants, Windsor. A FAMILY JUBILEE A family gathering of unusual interest was held on Tuesday night (2nd inst) at the residence of Mr Richardson (son-in-law of Mr Jonathan Leet), the object of meeting being to commemorate the arrival in New South Wales of the heads of the families — Messrs Robert, John, William and Jonathan Leet. Of these only two were present, William and Robert having left for the Better Land some years ago. Others present were Mrs Robert Leet, Mrs John Leet and quite a number of sons, sons-in-law, daughters and grandchildren, together with a few old friends, including the Misses Sternbeck (2), Mr Jurd, Mr Gabriel and Mrs W. C. Gambrill — some thirty persons in all. After a very nice dinner had been disposed of, Mr Richardson, as chairman, proposed the health of the King, which was duly and loyally honored. Then responding to the toast of the evening, "The day we celebrate," Mr Leet took his auditors back a few years — became quite historical in fact. Described the events of the voyage out, their landing in Sydney, and their being met by old Mr Israel Leet, their uncle. The old gentleman had a farm at Webb's Creek in those days, and it was there he took them — first to Parramatta by train, then to Windsor by coach ; the next day by river to Sackville, and then on to Webb's Creek. Everybody on the river knows the Leets : what industrious, good-living citizens they were — whether at Sackville or Leet's Vale. Jonathan's sons and daughters are known to most down-the-river folk — for was not Mrs Jonathan Leet a Rose — and Roses and rosebuds are plentiful enough on the river. Old Israel Leet lies peacefully sleeping down there in that sylvan God's acre a few miles below the Ferry, where he was laid at the great age of 100, or thereabouts. The Leets are Suffolk people — came from near the home of the famous Margaret Catchpole ; and wherever they are known — on the river or at Willoughby — they are respected and esteemed as honorable men and women and good citizens. Windsor and Richmond Gazette, 6 July 1907.

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Maureen Withey on 13th January 2021

On Wednesday last, the following convicts were removed from the County Gaol in this town, to be put board the Laurel Hulk, at Portsmouth: Isaac Sheppard, Enoch Baker, and Israel Lett, under sentence of transportation for the term of seven years each. Suffolk Chronicle, 9 Nov 1816. ---------------------------------------------------- Hulk Records. HO-9-9-1 page 35/56. Bury St Edmunds, 7th November 1816, Received on Board. Israel Leet, age 25, Gd. Ly. Ipswich, Tried 18 Oct 1816, 7 years, Dis. 3 Dec 1816, NSW.

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D Wong on 22nd December 2016

30/10/1816 Bury and Norwich Post Suffolk, England: At Ipswich Quarter Sessions, Israel Leet, convicted of Stealing 4 pigeons, the property of Mr. Wm. Hazelgrove, of East Bergholt, 7 years transportation. Israel was the son of Israel and Mary Leet. 22/1/1824: COF 1828: Married Sarah May (Admiral Gambier & Friends 1811) no children listed. 1841 Census: Webbs Creek, County Hunter, District Windsor. Jonathan Leet, born 1828 in Suffolk, emigrated in 1857 with his younger brother, Robert, to join their uncle, Israel Leet, who had settled at Webb's Creek. 6/8/1883: Israel died, aged 94 at Windsor. Both he and wife Sarah are buried at Wisemans Ferry, NSW.