Pardon, Prosperity and Permission: Windsor's Early Settlers

Early Settlers & Ex-Convicts At Windsor, New South Wales: A letter, dated 27th November 1835, written at the request of Samuel Terry (convicted of the theft of 400 pairs of stockings and sentenced to transportation for seven years in 1800) from his office in Pitt Street, to Edward William Alexander Robinson, son of Edward Robinson (charged with 14 counts of stealing; sentenced to hang, but reprieved to transportation for life in 1789). Terry, who had prospered in the colony, even before receiving his pardon, is now owner of the land at Windsor known as 'Robinson's Farm' and is giving permission for young Edward to 'Take possession of the farm.....turn it to graze any stock or cattle that belongs to yourself.'