- Sydney Gazette Index - Mitchell Library:
- ¨ 19 February 1827 - 2d - Recommended for the position of
Superintendent of the
- hulk Phoenix
- ¨ 14 May 1827 - 2c - Would be suitable for appointment as officer
of the Customs
- Department
- ¨ 28 September 1827 - 2e - Appointed Chief Constable Windsor:
- "The Chief Constable of Sydney we understand is bestowed upon Mr
Jilks now
- doing duty at Windsor Mr Hodghon the ex-drum Major of the 48th
and for many
- years employed in the Commissariat is intended to supply the
place of Mr Jilks at
- Windsor. We are happy to see the interests of n old soldier, one
who has fought
- under Wellington, though merely a non-commissioned officer -
attended to -
- especially where family is concerned."
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- Manuscript Index - Mitchell Library - A820, p130:
- ¨ Appointed Chief Constable Windsor, 1 October 1827
- ¨ Salary £130.0.0 in 1830
- The Australian Index - Mitchell Library:
- Hodghon Benjamin Chief Constable Windsor:
- ¨ Witness in burglary case May 28 1828
- ¨ Subscribes to Hibernia Fund August 9 1833
- ¨ Mare and filly found April 4 1835
- ¨ List of Articles to be sold November 10 1835
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- 1828 Census:
- HODGON Benjamin
- ¨ Arrived free on "Matilda" 1817
- Religion - Protestant
- ¨ Age - 41
- ¨ Occupation - Chief Constable Windsor
- ¨ Ref No H2023
- HODGHON Anne
- ¨ Arrived free on "Matilda" 1817
- ¨ Religion - Protestant
- ¨ Age - 34
- ¨ Ref No H2024
- HODGHON Anne
- ¨ Arrived free on "Matilda" 1817
- ¨ Religion - Protestant
- ¨ Age - 12
- ¨ Ref No H2025
- HODGHON Benjamin
- ¨ Born in Colony
- ¨ Religion - Protestant
- ¨ Age - 9
- ¨ Ref No H2026
- HODGHON Alexander
- ¨ Born in Colony
- ¨ Religion - Protestant
- ¨ Age - 6
- ¨ Ref No H2027
- HODGHON William
- ¨ Born in Colony
- ¨ Religion - Protestant
- ¨ Age - 3
- ¨ Ref No H2028
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- "Early Days in Windsor"
- Records Benjamin HODGHSEN as Chief Constable Windsor, 1827-35
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- Memorial of Benjamin Hodghon late Drum Major 48th Reg't -
February 6th 1824 -
- NSW State Archives - Secretary's Correspondence, 1831 Reel
12194 Ref 4/2167
- "To His Excellency
- Lieut. General Ralph Darling
- Captain And Governor in Chief in and over the Territory of New
South Wales and its
- Dependencies
- The respectful Memorial of Benjamin Hodghon, of Windsor,
- Most dutifully Setteth Forth:
- That Memoralist was about 24 years in His Majesty's Service, 18
of which were spent in the 48th Reg. Of Foot, and came to this Colony
with the Head Quarters of
- that Regiment AD 1817; that during that stay of that Reg. at
Sydney, Memoralist 'conduct came under the observation of the Colonial
Government, at whose earnest suggestion, and on account of his family,
was induced to apply for his "discharge by request", which was granted,
and in 1823 Memoralist quitted the service.
- That immediately on quitting the army, Memoralist was placed by
Mr Deputy Commissioned Wigins, in the Commissariat Department, and on
account of Memoralist' s increasing Family, several gentleman
recommended Memoralist for a Grant of Land, and His Excellency Sir
Thomas Brisbane, KCB was graciously pleased to order Memoralist one
hundred acres, which order is now in the Office of
- the Surveyor General of the Colony. That Memoralist most
dutifully begs to say, that while in the Commissariat's Department, both
his own exertions and good wishes of gentleman who gave him
- their patronage, to make diligent inquiry concerning this land,
and he did so: but that the late John Oxley, Esquire, Surveyor General
complained of the preference of business and a paucity of Surveyors, and
said that Memoralist's application should be attended to in the regular
order of the Office transactions, and Memoralist begs dutifully to add
that his brother soldiers who left the army at the same time, and alike
received a gift of 100 acres of land, under similar circumstances with
Memoralist, sold their interest in their grants expectation of to
persons who found minutes of having same measured and located, but
Memoralist who would sell his land, he intending it for the use of his
family, and Memoralist, is therefore induced to hope that His Excellency
may be graciously pleased not all the Government Notice of 3rd October
1826 and 3rd October 1827 to operate to his prejudice as Memoralist was
unfortunately under circumstances of which he had no power to control.
That Memoralist begs most dutifully to say that should His Excellency
the Governor Grant Memoralist the original position of 100 acres of
land, he could select the same at Curryjong among other settlers
recently retired from the army, a respectable clap of settlers suited to
Memoralist's overseer, and Memoralist will also place his oldest son
upon the land and immediately fence and improve the same, and erect a
suitable home.
- That Memoralist has held the situation of Chief Constable of
Windsor upwards of 3 years and still continues in that office, on which
he does not make application for Grant of Fee, but in Service, and
having such ample means of improving the same, by the exertions of his
oldest son, under the experience of Sergeant Kingswood, as Overseer, he
humbly trusts, under all the circumstances, that His Excellency may be
Pleased to comply with Memoralist's Prays:
- May it therefore please His Excellency to give the above His
favourable consideration, and Memoralist firmly relying upon His
Excellency's…. kind…. As in duty bound
- Will Murphy
- Windsor 5th February 1831
- Memo. Memoralist is proprietor of -
- Twenty two h…. Cattle,
- Two horses,
- Implements of Agriculture