71/2 308 - - 3161/4
At and leading to 1711/2 14 511 - - 6961/2
Toongabbie
Total public ground 1721/4 211/2 819 - - 10123/4

_Belonging to Settlers and others_
At Parramatta, (1
The governor's garden - 1/2 2 (3 vines - 61/2
Garden ground belonging to
different people, including
convicts' gardens - - - 104 - 104
At Parramatta, 1 settler 3 - 18 1 7 29
At Prospect Hill, four miles
to the westward of
Parramatta, 18 settlers 111/4 - 84 - - 951/4
At the Ponds, two miles to
the northeast of
Parramatta, 16 settlers 101/4 21/4 63 31/2 161/2 951/2
At the Northern boundary
farms, two miles from
Parramatta, 5 settlers 3 - 35 23/4 11 513/4
At the Field of Mars, on
the north shore, near the
entrance of the creek
leading to Parramatta,
8 settlers, (marines) 4 - 441/2 2 31 811/2
At the Eastern farms,
12 settlers - - 401/2 - 121/2 53
On the creek leading to
Parramatta, 7 settlers 43/4 - 801/2 4 22 1111/4
In cultivation by the civil
and military at Sydney - - - - 61/2 61/2
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Total 2081/2 241/4 11861/2 1211/4 1621/2 1703
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Of the sixty-seven settlers above enumerated, one, James Ruse, who had a
grant of thirty acres at Parramatta, went upon his farm the latter end of
November 1789; but none of the others began to cultivate ground upon
their own accounts earlier than the middle of July 1791; but many of them
at a much later date. The eight marine settlers at the Field of Mars took
possession of their allotments at the beginning of February 1792. The
conditions held out to settlers were, to be victualled and clothed from
the public store for eighteen months from the term of their becoming
settlers; to be furnished with tools and implements of husbandry; grain
to sow their grounds, and such stock as could be spared from the public.
They were likewise to have assigned them the services of such a number of
convicts as the governor should think proper, on their makin