Convict John Pittman Acquires Land in Kurrajong District

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John Matthew Pitman (Pittman), One of 200 Convicts Transported On the Surrey, January 1814, Acquires Land in the Kurrajong District. Sentenced to death for horse stealing, Pitman's sentence was commuted to transportation for life and he arrived in New South Wales in July 1814. By 1824 he had been granted a ticket-of-leave and had married Mary Sutherland, who had arrived free in 1808. The present document is an agreement between John Ash and John Pittman for the latter to acquire some 'Thirty Acres more or less lying and being situate at the Kurrajong District...for the sum of Fifteen pounds in Spanish Dollars at five shillings each..' The agreement is signed by John Nash and on behalf of Pittman by his wife, Mary Sutherland. They had two children and when he died in 1863, at the age of 76, Pittman was buried at Richmond on the Hawkesbury.

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