By His Excellency Lachlan Macquarie, Esquire, Captain General and Governor in Chief of His Majesty’s Territory of New South Wales and its Dependencies etc., etc., etc.

1060 Acres.

Whereas full Power and Authority for Granting Lands in the Territory of New South Wales are Vested in His Majesty’s Captain General and Governor in Chief (or in his absence the Lieutenant Governor for the Time-being), in and over the said Territory and its Dependencies, by His Majesty’s Instructions under Royal Sign Manual, bearing Date respectively the Twenty-fifth Day of April, One Thousand and seven hundred and eighty seven, and the Twentieth Day of August, One thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.

In Pursuance of the Power and Authority Vested in me as aforesaid, I Do by These Presents Give and Grant unto Hannibal McArthur, Esquire, His Heirs and Assigns, To Have and To Hold For Ever, One Thousand and Sixty Acres of Land, lying and Situate in the District of Cooke – Bounded on the West and South West by Hoskings and Shelley’s Farms, bearing South and West to the Creek, and by the Creek to Riley’s Raby Farm, on the South East side of Raby Farm bearing North Thirty Degrees East to the Bringellly Road, and on the North by that Road – to be Called “Eastwood” – To be Had and Held by Him the said Hannibal McArthur His Heirs and Assigns free from all Taxes, Quit Rents and other acknowledgements for the space of Five years from the Date hereof, (Provided always, and it is hereby expressly to be understood that the said Hannibal McArthur the Grantee in these Presents named, shall in no wise either directly or indirectly Sell, Alienate or Transfer any Part or Parcel of the Land hereby Granted, within the said term of Five Years, And also , provided always, that the said Hannibal McArthur shall Clear and Cultivate or Cause to be cleared and Cultivated within the said Term of Five Years, the Quantity of Seventy five Acres of the said Land hereby Granted: Otherwise the Whole of the said Land shall revert to the Crown, and the Grant hereby made thereof shall be held and deemed Null and Void); and saving and reserving to Government the Right of making a Public Road through such part of the said Land as may at any time be required; such Timber as may be growing, or that may grow hereafter upon said Lands, which may be deemed fit for Naval Purposes, to be reserved for the Use of the Crown, and paying an Annual Quit Rent of One Pound One Shilling after the Term or Time of Five Years before mentioned.

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and the Seal of the Territory at Sydney, in New South Wales, this Seventeenth Day of August, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and nineteen,

L. Macquarie (signature)

Signed and Sealed in Our Presence,

H. C. Antill

John Riley

In the left margin of the grant are the words: ‘Registered in the Secretary’s Office, Page 164 N[?] of Register. – Sydney, 14 Sept. 1820’

And upside down in the same margin: ‘See Surrender Endorsed hereon John Campbell Secretary’