William Scott

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Margaret Weston on 1st December 2021

William Scott was born 13th May 1785 at Lanarkshire, Scotland. At the time of the crime William was recorded as a “labourer of Bushey, Hertfordshire” when he was committed to Gaol along with Thomas Cross, who was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1779 both convicted for sheep-stealing on 27th March 1809 and, received sentence of death, but were reprieved to Transportation Over the Seas for the Term of their natural lives. There is an account for C Wilson (found in the Calendar of Session Rolls) for conveying to the Hulks at Woolwich, William Scott, Joseph Slater, James Darby, George Mole, and Thomas Cross, 32 miles at 1 shilling per mile each. William and Thomas were received on 31st May 1810 at the Hulk Retribution moored at Woolwich where they were housed until they were transported to New South Wales leaving the Retribution on 27th February 1811. Scott served his time, and was granted his freedom, thought to be while he was still employed by Elizabeth Macarthur. Along with his freedom he was given a grant of land at Bargo, which by the time of the 1828 muster had grown in size to 5000 acres thereby assuring his position as a businessman in the local community. The livestock on the property consisted of 2 horses, 48 cattle and 1010 sheep. By 1830 William Scott former convict, tanner and landholder at Bargo became one of the new breed of far-sighted adventurers and squatted on land known locally as Greenlands near Nimmitabel to raise cattle. His run was apparently called “Tom Groggin”, this lay probably to the north of the present Nimmitabel town reserve. Scott appointed his employee William White, ex-convict, as overseer or as was sometimes-called superintendent, to manage the property and supervise the reported few hundred head of cattle on it.

William Scott was born 13th May 1785 at Lanarkshire, Scotland. At the time of the crime William was recorded as a “labourer of Bushey, Hertfordshire” when he was committed to Gaol along with Thomas Cross, who was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1779 both convicted for sheep-stealing on 27th March 1809 and, received sentence of death, but were reprieved to Transportation Over the Seas for the Term of their natural lives. There is an account for C Wilson (found in the Calendar of Session Rolls) for conveying to the Hulks at Woolwich, William Scott, Joseph Slater, James Darby, George Mole, and Thomas Cross, 32 miles at 1 shilling per mile each. William and Thomas were received on 31st May 1810 at the Hulk Retribution moored at Woolwich where they were housed until they were transported to New South Wales leaving the Retribution on 27th February 1811. Scott served his time, and was granted his freedom, thought to be while he was still employed by Elizabeth Macarthur. Along with his freedom he was given a grant of land at Bargo, which by the time of the 1828 muster had grown in size to 5000 acres thereby assuring his position as a businessman in the local community. The livestock on the property consisted of 2 horses, 48 cattle and 1010 sheep. By 1830 William Scott former convict, tanner and landholder at Bargo became one of the new breed of far-sighted adventurers and squatted on land known locally as Greenlands near Nimmitabel to raise cattle. His run was apparently called “Tom Groggin”, this lay probably to the north of the present Nimmitabel town reserve. Scott appointed his employee William White, ex-convict, as overseer or as was sometimes-called superintendent, to manage the property and supervise the reported few hundred head of cattle on it.