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    Gregory Blaxland (17 June 1778 – 1 January 1853) was an English pioneer farmer and explorer in Australia, noted especially for initiating and co-leading...
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    The 1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains was the expedition led by Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth, which became the first...
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  • Blaxland can refer to: Gregory Blaxland (1778–1853), pioneer farmer and explorer in Australia, brother of John Jasper Blaxland (1880–1963), English consultant...
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    Asian communities. The division was created in 1949 and is named after Gregory Blaxland, a farmer and an early Australian explorer of the Blue Mountains in...
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    the townships of Glenbrook, Mount Riverview and Warrimoo. Blaxland is named for Gregory Blaxland who along with William Lawson and William Wentworth, led...
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    Macintyre 1998, pp. 464–465, 628–629 Conway, Jill. "Blaxland, Gregory (1778–1853)". Biography – Gregory Blaxland – Australian Dictionary of Biography. National...
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    Gregory Blaxland, 1813, note 4. Retrieved 9 March 2014. Crossing the Blue Mountains: from bush tracks to highways Retrieved 9 March 2014. Mt Blaxland...
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    across the Blue Mountains to Bathurst by an expedition jointly led by Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth. Towns in the Blue Mountains...
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    farmer John Blaxland and Mary, née Parker, of Fordwich, Kent, England. He was the older brother of early Australian explorer Gregory Blaxland. His father...
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    our party consisting of Mr. Gregory Blaxland, Lieutenant Lawson and Myself with four servants quitted Mr. Gregory Blaxland's farm on the South Creek and...
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    politician who migrated to Sydney, New South Wales in 1800. Along with Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth, he pioneered the first successful crossing of...
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    successfully cross the Blue Mountains just outside Sydney was led by Gregory Blaxland in 1813, 25 years after the colony was established. People, starting...
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    edu.au. Retrieved 14 July 2011. Conway, Jill. "Blaxland, Gregory (1778–1853)". Biography – Gregory Blaxland – Australian Dictionary of Biography. Adbonline...
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    estate was acquired by D'Arcy Wentworth in 1805 and then by Gregory Blaxland in 1807. Blaxland was a free settler who arrived in 1806 from Kent, where his...
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    by John Blaxland, who received a grant of 6,710 acres (27.2 km2) on 30 November 1813. His elder brother was the more famous Gregory Blaxland and Luddenham...
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    speared on the property while herding sheep. Gregory Blaxland, the 7th son of the eponymous explorer Gregory Blaxland took vengeance, heading a vigilante posse...
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    pronouncement, some settlers continued to try crossing the mountains. Gregory Blaxland was the first to successfully lead an expedition to cross them in 1813...
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    squatters Gregory Blaxland Jnr and William Forster established a sheep station. Blaxland was a son of the Blue Mountains explorer, Gregory Blaxland, and Forster...
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  • local Taribelang clansmen. Gregory Blaxland Jr, the seventh and youngest son of the pioneer, farmer and explorer Gregory Blaxland (17 June 1778 – 1 January...
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    European settlement of the region began in 1848 when Gregory Blaxland Jnr (son of the explorer Gregory Blaxland) together with William Forster brought their flocks...
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    Lane Cove River and Parramatta River, which was known as Walumetta. Gregory Blaxland, a free settler, purchased the 182.1-hectare (450-acre) Brush Farm...
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    Mountains by Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth is officially credited as the first successful European crossing. Blaxland set out...
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  • and the First World War. Veterans Affairs Canada. October 23, 2014. Gregory Blaxland, AMIENS 1918: Victory from Disaster. (S.l.: PEN & SWORD MILITARY, 2020)...
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    built for John Blaxland, whose entrepreneurial business activities were among the oldest in the colony, and whose brother, Gregory Blaxland, assisted in...
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    wife or members of the British aristocracy. In 1813 he authorised Gregory Blaxland, William Wentworth and William Lawson to conduct their successful crossing...
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  • was named after Francis Blaxland who owned three acres of land in the area from the 1880s and was a grandson of Gregory Blaxland. It was recognised by the...
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    squatters Gregory Blaxland Jnr, son of the explorer Gregory Blaxland, and William Forster established sheep stations in the area. Blaxland subsequently...
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    to convicts. Much later these farms were bought by John Macarthur, Gregory Blaxland and the Reverend Samuel Marsden. The district remained an important...
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  • Gregory Blaxland at Wollongong Thomas Kite – 11 July 1831 – Hanged at Sydney Gaol for burglary and putting in fear, at the farm of Gregory Blaxland at...
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    the German alliance. May 11 – 1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains: Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworth leave on an expedition to cross...
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