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by Jan Barkley Jack (BA Hons)

for lan Jack Heritage Consulting Pty Ltd

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CONTENTS

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Statement of historical significance 1Executive summary 2The Old Manse in 2002, photograph, J. Barkley Jack 3History

1.0 Introduction 41.1 European settlement in the area, 1794 41.2 The granting of the Old Manse farmland, 1797-1800 51.3 The sub-division ofTylor's land, 1801-1806 61.4 Henry and Elizabeth Fleming, 1810-1819 71.5 The Davisons and the Old Manse farmhouse, 1819-1827 81.6 Pitt Town Manse and the Revd John McGarvie 91.7 The Revd John Cleland, 1831-1839: extensions to the manse 121.8 The Revd George Macfie and flood damage to the manse, 1841-1867 131.9 After the flood, 1867-1879 151.10 Leasing of the former manse and its farm, 1879-1959 171.11 Purchase by Roy Johnston in 1959 181.12 Ownership and changes since 1980 20References 21

Appendix 1. Land Title map in Primary Application 41507 (K 266096): footnote 1 27Appendix 2. Parish map ofPitt Town: footnote 7 28Appendix 3. Amended plan ofH.F. Busby, 16 October 1959, in Primary Application

41507 (K 266096): footnote 10 29Appendix 4. Letter from Dr John Dunmore Lang, 22 June 1877: footnote 36 30Appendix 5: Listing proposal by National Trust of Australia (NSW Branch), 1976:

footnote 40 31Appendix 6. Receipt for purchase of Old Manse Farm, 4 April 1828, and subsequent

Payments: footnote 42 32Appendix 7. Statutory Declaration from Dr John Dunmore Lang, 5 August 1878:

footnote 44 33Appendix 8. Statutory Declaration from Norbert Cleary, 23 June 1964: footnote 46 34Appendix 9. Map compiled by Felton Mathews, 1833, State Records NSW, AO 48 38Appendix 10. Map compiled by Perry, 1839, State Records NSW, AO Map 5047 39Appendix 11. Pitt Town to Wilberforce punt, courtesy ofCoral Cleary: footnote 56 40Appendix 12. Suggested fabric sequence ofthe Old Manse: footnote 76 41Appendix 13. Views of the western side (back) ofOld Manse, 2002, by Jan Barkley

Jack: footnote 86 42Appendix 14. A. Watercolour by Matthew MacNally, 1931: footnote 88 47

B. Sketch by Gifford Eardley, August 1954: footnote 87 48C. Photograph by Ron Arndell, 1950: footnote 87 49

Appendix 15. The 1883 manse beside the 1862 Presbyterian church: footnote 90 50Appendix 16. Plan accompanying Statutory Declarations in Primary Application

41507 (K 266096): footnote 96 51Appendix 17. Changes to the fabric of the Old Manse farmhouse, 1898-1980:

fuotnotel03 52Appendix 18. Map of Piu Town, c.1846-1850, showing Punt Road, State Records

NSW, AO Map 342: footnote 105 56Appendix 19. Photographic record ofOld Manse, 1964- 2002 57Appendix 20. Aerial photograph of Old Manse site, 2001 59

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The Old Manse Farm, Pitt Town

Statement of Historical Significance

The Old Manse and its farmland meet the criteria for state significance in two historical themes,religion and agriculture.

The house is the earliest surviving Australian housing used by clergy. Built as a farmhouse inc.1819-1821, for half a century (from 1828 until 1877) it was the manse for the remarkablePresbyterian community at Ebenezer and Pitt Town. Ebenezer church itself, built in 1809 as aplace of worship by a strongly Christian and largely Presbyterian group of settlers at PortlandHead, keenly interested both in religion and in education, is the oldest church building and theoldest school building in Australia. The stone church has been recognized as of outstanding stateimportance and is on the State Heritage Register.

The Old Manse Farm at Pitt Town was an essential element in the significance of Ebenezerchurch and in the establishment of organized Presbyterianism in the colony at large. TheMacquarie-period farmhouse acquired by Dr John Dunmore Lang on behalf of the Presbyterianchurch was symbolic ofthe creation ofthe first Presbyterian parish outside Sydney. Its firstministerial occupant, the Revd John McGarvie, was a critically important figure in the pastoral,educational and intellectual development of Australian Presbyterianism and under the Revd JohnCleland it was for a time the administrative headquarters ofthe young denomination. The single­storied, low-browed manse building makes an instructive comparison with the two-storied,Georgian, Establishment rectory built some five years later at Windsor: some of the essentialdifferences between the Anglicans and the Presbyterians are expressed in the fabric of the twocontrasting clergy-houses.

The role of the Pitt Town property in the first half of the Victorian period as a centre for ministryand thereafter as an essential source of income for the Presbyterian parish gives the manse farm acontinuing importance at a local level throughout most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.The community esteem for Ebenezer church and its old manse at Pitt Town is uncommonly highand remains undiminished in the twenty-first century.

The origins of the farm and the farmhouse which became the manse are also of state significance.The first contact between Governor Phillip and Aboriginal people on the Upper Hawkesburytook place at Bardenarang Creek on or very near the property. The European farm was formedearly in the nineteenth century out of a reordering of some of the land-grants of 1794-1797 whichhad been made along the Hawkesbury from Cornwallis to Pitt Town Bottoms. These grantsremain ofthe highest significance as the earliest legible farmland surviving in New South Wales,still used for its original purpose after more than two centuries. The Old Manse Farm combinessignificant features of the earliest Hawkesbury: intensive use of the fertile, alluvial soils oftheflood-plain along with grazing land on higher, less fertile paddocks, where permanent homeswere more safely constructed. Macquarie-period farmhouses, the second stage in housing onsuch early grants, are extremely rare in the Cumberland Plain and the Hawkesbury Valley. Thebasic structure of the original simple farmhouse is still the core of the Old Manse, with earlyadditions made by the Presbyterian church to convert the house into a suitable manse.

Old Manse Farm, Pitt Town

Executive summary

The Daruk people are the traditional owners of the country around Pitt Town and it was onBardenarang Creek, on or very close to the future Old Manse Farm, that Governor Phillip firstmet Aboriginal men of the Upper Hawkesbury in 1791. The formation of the European farmbegan after the first land grants in Mulgrave Place in 1794 to 1797, but only in 1806, aftercomplex sub-divisions of the original grants made to Henry Fleming and to Thomas Tylor, didthe present Old Manse Farm take much of its present form. The boundaries adjacent toBardenarang Creek on the west and north continued to be adjusted and were not definitivelysettled until 1964. As a result the size of the nineteenth-century farm varies in documentsbetween 24 and 30 acres.

The Old Manse building was almost certainly built as a farmhouse for James Davisonjunior andhis wife in 1819-1821 after his father bought the property. It did not become a manse until 1828when Dr Dunmore Lang, on behalf of the trustees of the Presbyterian church at what we know asEbenezer, bought it to house the Revd John McGarvie, the second Presbyterian minister to cometo the colony. McGarvie's successor, John Cleland, was the Presbyterian Moderator in the mid1830s and general church administration was centred at the Pitt Town manse. Major extensionsto the rear of the manse were probably built over the period 1837 to 1841, enlarging the house tosix rooms.

The manse was damaged in the 1867 flood, the first (and to date the last) time that the house hasbeen invaded by the Hawkesbury, but it was repaired sufficiently for the new minister, DavidMoore, to live there around the early 1870s. After he left the parish in 1877, however, thePresbyterian community decided to lease the property to a local farmer and in 1883 a new mansewas erected in Pitt Town proper. The Old Manse was leased consistently from 1879 until 1959and from 1898 onwards the lessees were three successive generations ofJohnstons, who madevarious small changes to the fabric of the house, while diversifying agriculture on the farmland.In 1959 Roy Johnston bought the property from the church and retained it until 1980.

Subsequent owners have made additions and changes to the house: in particular, during the mid­1980s Theo Dygraft built a new west wing with dormer windows. On the farmland, the intensivegrowing of vegetables which distinguished the eight decades of Johnston occupancy, has beendisplaced by grazing.

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The Old Manse Farm, Pitt Town

History

1.0 IntroductionBetween the trees marking the lower meanders of Bardenarang Creek and the northern saddleof the Pitt Town ridge, nestled on the western slope, is the 12.l9-hectare property known asOld Manse Farm. Its northern boundary is the Hawkesbury River, at York Reach (l). Thefarmhouse, once the manse for the ministers serving the Presbyterian congregations ofEbenezer on the northern bank of the Hawkesbury and ofPitt Town on the southern, is thesubject of this study.

1.1 European Settlement in the Area, 1794

For almost two and a half years after sixty-eight male ex-convicts and four ex-seamen, alongwith their partners and families, settled the area in 1794 as the new district of Mulgrave Place,the study lands beside the river around Bardenarang Creek remained ungranted (2).Continuing in their natural state, the banks of the river, called Venrubben or Deerubbin by theAboriginal people, produced good crops ofyams and gave access to the rich food resources ofthe river itself, utilised by the Daruk tribe as they had done for thousands ofyears (3). Indeed,it was off-shore from the Old Manse property that friendly Aboriginal men, Gombeeree andYellomundee, together with Yellomundee's son Deeimba, first encountered Europeans whenGovernor Phillip and an exploratory party were crossing Bardenarang Creek in 1791. Thatnight the two groups shared a campfire on adjacent land upstream (4). However, by the endof 1794 the lands as far as the western end of York Reach were being enclosed and cleared bythe new European farmers who, possessive of their property, cut the original owners offfromaccess to the river.

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1.2 The Granting of the Old Manse Farmland, 1797-1800

The reappropriation of the lands around the mouth of Bardenarang Creek came in 1797. On IMay 1797 Governor Hunter gave official title to the land where the Old Manse Farm was latersituated to Thomas Tylor (or Tyler or Taylor) as a 60-acre (24-hectare) grant, portion 15 onthe later parish map ofPitt Town: the grant was known as Tylor Farm (5). As was commonin that period, Tylor, an ex-New South Wales Corps soldier, and his bride of 1796, CatherineJohnson (6), had chosen and occupied the land before the grant was finalised in May 1797.

Similarly, on the same day, deeds were issued for the 30 acres (18 hectares) on the westernbank at the mouth of Bardenarang Creek, later numbered portion 16 in PiU Town parish, in1797 known as Fleming (or Flemming) Farm (7). The grantee was a six-year-old boy, HenryFleming, and the land was held in trust for him by his widowed mother as a consideration ofher husband's service in British regiments over twenty years until his death around 1795 (8).It is probable that by 1797 Henry with his two sisters, Eleanor and Margaret, his mother Mary(who had remarried in 1796) and his step-father, ex-convict Benjamin Jones, were alreadyworking the property (9).

The later Old Manse Farm was situated on the western part of Tylor's portion 15, but includeda sliver of the eastern part of Fleming's portion 16, the part to the east of Bardenarang Creek(10). There was a strong social connection from the beginning between Tylor andJones/Fleming because Thomas Tylor and Henry Fleming's father, Joseph, had both beengranted allotments at Concord before the Mulgrave Place grants were made (11).

By 1800 Thomas Tylor had cleared at least 12 acres (4.8 hectares) at Hawkesbury and wascropping wheat and maize, probably on what is now the low land to the west of the presentOld Manse building: this is the only part of Tylor's grant which lay on the alluvial flood-plain(12.) When in 1803 Tylor received title to the adjoining 110 acres (44 hectares), laternumbered portion 46, on high land to the south of portion 15, he gained only 14 fertile acres(13).

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1.3 The Sub-division of Tylor's Land, 1801-1806

Nonetheless, sometime before 1806, Thomas Tylor sold about 24 acres (10 hectares) of hiswestern-most land, the part of portion 15 which became Old Manse Farm. No official recordof this sale exists in the Land and Property Information archives, but the sale of Tylor'sremaining 146 acres (60 hectares), comprising all of portion 46 and the eastern part of portion15 is documented: these 146 acres were bought for 150 pounds by Governor Bligh (14), who,adding Simpson's adjacent farm of 110 acres, created Blighton Farm, 'with the grand designof showing what great Improvements and Progress could be made on ... Colonial Estates' (15).

Some believe that it was Henry Fleming who came to own the 24 acres (10 hectares)separated from Tylor's portion 15 (16) and now known as Old Manse Farm, but nodocumentary proof exists of this. In 1806, the latest date at which the transfer could havebeen made, Henry was only fifteen years old and still dependent on his step-father BenjaminJones. The most likely purchaser of this land between 1801 and 1806 was Jones himself, whois shown in the 1806 census as having a family home in 1 acre of garden and orchard: Jonesthen probably gave the land to his stepson after 1809, when Henry Fleming took control andownership of his own adjacent grant, portion 16. The evidence for this is that in the 1800census the only land shown under Benjamin Jones was Fleming's 30 acres held in the name ofJones's wife (Fleming's mother) (17), whereas by the 1802 muster Jones had acquired anadditional 50 or 60 acres (18): since almost all grants around Mulgrave Place which couldconceivably have been acquired by Jones in 1801-2 were 25 or 30 acres (and no 25-acreproperties were adjacent), his extra land must have come from one whole 30-acre farm andfrom a 20-acre part of a larger farm adjacent. This configuration stiII held good in 1805-6,after Jones received a 200-acre (80-hectare) grant in 1803 for his own children by MaryFleming, because he is shown as holding a total of 284 acres (19). The 24 acres sold by Tylorapproximates with the 20-acre moiety which Jones bought in 1801-2. This land layimmediately adjacent to the farm Jones was working (his stepson's Fleming Farm), which wasentirely on the flood-plain. The years 1800, 1801 and 1802 had seen recurrent destructivefloods spreading 'Danger, Desolation and Dismay on Every side', when a farmer's entirepossessions 'would be sweepted away from him, his grain, pigs, fowls, his furniture, Beds,Bedding and wearing Aperal ... in the Course of one Day or one Night' (20). It seemsreasonable to postulate that it was Benjamin Jones who bought the higher land from his friendTylor and not Thomas Jones, another Pitt Town resident who already owned 30 acres of highground (21) but is named (probably in error) as the purchaser of Tylor's moiety in a lateragreement when Bligh's bereaved family appointed trustees to sell Blighton farm and otherassets (22).

In her research paper, based on an entry in Historical Records of Australia and a report in theSydney Gazette in 1828, Elizabeth Roberts independently concluded that Benjamin Jones hadbeen the purchaser ofTylor's land, but Roberts went further and speculated that Jones'possibly built a new home where the Old Manse House now stands' (23). Jones's 1806house could, however, have been on his 200-acre portion, since there is no evidenceestablishing its location, but it is possible that this house or an earlier dwelling was on whatbecame Old Manse Farm.

1.4 Henry and Elizabeth Fleming, 1810-1819

Further support for arguing that Benjamin Jones bought the present Old Manse property andgave it to Henry Fleming comes from his family situation. Benjamin's step-daughters,Eleanor and Margaret (who died in 1813), were married to successful farmers, while his ownchildren by Mary were provided for through the 200-acre acquisition: so only Henry Flemingwas in need of20 acres ofland lying higher than his flood-prone grant of 1797. After 1815,when Benjamin, Mary and their children went to live in Van Diemen's Land, Henry managedhis step-father's substantial interests in Pitt Town, but by 1819 these consisted only of the200-acre Jones Farm (24).

On 18 February 1810 Fleming had married Elizabeth Hall, a daughter of his wealthyneighbour, the free immigrant George Hall. Henry and Elizaberth were married at St John's,Parramatta (25), for, although Ebenezer church just a few reaches down stream had beenerected for the best part of a year, with much practical input from George Hall, there was nominister there. The congregation of Ebenezer consisted of settlers on both sides of the riverfrom Pitt Town to Portland Head, especially those free settlers, mostly Presbyterians and 'ofthe seceding persuasion', who had arrived on the Coromandel in 1802 and built the smallstone chapel themselves. In the early years they 'took advantage of [visiting] chaplains,Methodists and missionaries;' or were guided by the pious, such as James Mein, within thecongregation (26).

Henry and Elizabeth Fleming probably lived near the mouth of Bardenarang Creek until atleast 1815 when the township of Pitt Town was resited by Governor Macquarie on thesouthern end of the ridge above Fleming's land and afforded him a town allotment. With anurban lot above flood level, Fleming diversified his activities, building an inn and eventually atwo-storied home (27). It is possible, even likely, that the rescue of a woman and twochildren by Henry Fleming from the flooded area of Bardenerang Creek in 1817 was in factthe saving of his own family: in this case, the Flemings had continued to live on FlemingFarm and possibly the Old Manse property until 1817 (28). In 1819 Henry lost his liquorlicence for 'keeping an irregular and riotous [Public] House' on his town allotment andconsidered leaving the colony, as his mother and step-father had done (29). Although hedecided against leaving, Henry did advertise for sale his 'Farm of 50 acres having thereon asubstantial Dwelling house and Barn, situate at Pitt Town' (30).

It would be very convenient to interpret this as the sale of the 30-acre portion 16 of the 1797Fleming Farm together with the 24 acres of the Old Manse Farm (part ofTylor's portion 15).The discrepancy of 4 acres could be explained by the common practice of rounding offfigures: in 1806 Tylor, after all, had advertised his I46-acre property as 150 acres (31). Thisinterpretation would be mistaken, however, for Fleming had already sold 20 acres of FlemingFarm to his brother-in-law, David Brown, in 1811: this land lay to the west of BarderanangCreek, adjoining Badlife Farm (the later portion 17) (32). So in 1819 Henry Fleming retainedonly 10 acres of Fleming Farm east of Barderanang Creek. He also probably owned the 24acres of Old Manse Farm and had bought an additional 15 acres, which can possibly beidentified with half of BootIes Farm nearby (Bootle retaining the other 15 acres) (33). Thesub-division of these early farms has created a great deal of confusion, but it is likely thatFleming's 50-acre farm advertised in 1819 consisted of 10 acres of Fleming Farm, 15 acres ofBootIes Farm and the 24 acres ofTylor's farm later known as Old Manse Farm. Thisconfuses further the location of his farmhouse.

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1.5 The Davisons and the Old Manse Farmhouse, 1819-1827

Greater certainty about the Old Manse Farm is reached in ]82]. Before October] 82] aJames Davison had purchased it as a 30-acre (l3-hectare) farm and was living on it (34). It isnot possible to know if the 'substantial Dwelling house and Barn' advertised in ]8] 9 and builtby Benjamin Jones or Henry Fleming some time between ]80] and ]819 was sited on the OldManse Farm, since both Fleming and Jones had other land, including an unlocated property,possibly Booties' ]5 acres, where the house might conceivably been erected (35).

There were two James Davisons, father and son, and Bowd and Arndell, two of the mostreputable modern historians of the area, both believed that James junior, aged twenty in .] 8] 9,was the purchaser, but a letter from the Revd John Dunmore Lang makes it certain that it wasJames senior (36). James Davison the elder had come to the colony as a free settler on theCoromandel in ]802, developed Alnwick Farm near Ebenezer church and acquired other land.By 1819 he was a prosperous settler (37).

Although James Davison senior bought Fleming's land, he did not live there. The occupantswere his son, James junior, and his wife Eliza Suttor (of the well-known Baulkham Hillsfamily), who had married on 22 September 18]9, two months before Henry Flemingadvertised the Old Manse Farm for sale (38). James junior and Eliza were certainly residenton this farm by October] 821, when James junior sought permission to establish a punt on theproperty (39). Clearly a house, possibly part of the present Old Manse, was in existence by1821, probably constructed by James Davison senior or junior for the use of James junior andhis bride in ]819-20. This first Davison house is probably represented by the two front roomsof the present Old Manse.

The National Trust's inventory sheet for the Old Manse names Andrew Johnston as its builder(40). This attribution is both unsubstantiated and improbable. Although Johnston, anotherCoromandel settler of 1802-3, was a good friend of George Hall and the brother-in-law ofJames Davison senior (who married Andrew's sister, Jane), and although Johnston is allegedby Arndell to have 'practised as an architect in London', all his known building activities atPortland Head and Ebenezer were in stone, not in brick (4]).

1.6 PiU Town Manse and the Revd John McGarvie, 1826-1831

On 4 April 1828 the house and 27 acres (11 hectares) of land were sold to John DunmoreLang acting for the Presbyterian church at Ebenezer (42). Once again the stated acreage doesnot exactly square with earlier documentation: Tylor sold 24 acres, yet Davison believed heowned 30 acres and sold it as 27 acres in 1828 (43). It is possible that some of the uncertaintystems from the status of the 10 acres or thereabouts lying between Bardenarang Creek on thewest and the original surveyed western boundary of Tylor's portion 15: Fleming did not sellthis 10 acres to David Brown in 1811: the land sold to the Presbyterian church in 1828,claimed to be 27 acres, represents Tylor's land without this 10 acres of Fleming Farm.Unfortunately the original conveyance does not survive and the only evidence is aninsufficiently detailed statutory declaration made by Dunmore Lang in 1878, fifty years later,amplified by a letter from Lang in 1877 (44). Certainly that to-acre lot is stiIl today ownedseparately from the Old Manse Farm (45).Alternatively the confusion may arise from thenorthmost 3 acres between Bardenarang Creek and the river, ownership of which was notlegally resolved until 1964 (46).

By 1823 there was also a wharf and a punt on the Hawkesbury frontage of Old Manse Farm orvery close by. There had previously been a punt plying between Pitt Town and Wilberforce,but this had been idle since 1817 (47). This disused punt was claimed by John Howe, anotherpowerful Coromandel settler, after James Davisonjunior had applied for permission toestablish his own ferry service in 1821 (48.) Davison had a new punt constructed which wasin use by January 1823, operating from an existing wharf on his property (49).

John McGarvie, the inaugural Presbyterian minister of the Portland Head district, arrived inPitt Town at the end of May 1826 and in his diary described the viIIage as

a small place with 2 or 3 [clusters] of small houses scattered at different distances andoccupied by ... small farmers ... [with] an Inn, and a Schoolhouse, a short way fromthe Town is a [Church of England] Parsonage and Churc, a burial ground ... Theview to the Blue Mountains here is extremely grand. So also is the view of the flatflooded land below the village ... , covered with wheat and corn. It is highlypicturesque ... There is a punt here for crossing the river. (50)

Like the exact size of the various allotments, the location of Davison's punt is problematic.The surveyor Felton Mathew drew a map ofPitt Town in 1833 and shows the punt onFleming Farm, some 300 metres upstream from the present end of Punt Road, outsideDavison's property and therefore outside the church land acquired in 1828 (51). The locationof the punt is an issue in relation to the Old Manse Farm because its ownership became tied tothe property after 1828. Because it is listed among the assets of the Presbyterian churchwhich had replaced the punt in 1828 (52) and because the erection ofa punt-keeper's house in1835 was undertaken by the Trustees of the Portland Head Society (53), it would seem tohave remained on the land of Old Manse Farm, perhaps on the later Punt Road site. Themove may have happened immediately after Felton Mathew did his survey in 1833, when herecommended a new culvert on the Wilberforce side of the river to solve access problemsthere (54). A new version of Mathew's map by surveyor Perry in 1839 seems to show thepunt on its new site (55) and there it remained until it ceased operation in 1921 (56).

When the Revd John McGarvie arrived in 1826, he stayed initially at George Hall's propertyin Pitt Town, while he visited his dispersed parishioners. On 25 September 1826 he baptized

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John Davison IIl, the infant son of John Davison junior and Eliza, during a service atEbenezer. McGarvie, educated at Glasgow Academy and the University of Glasgow, in oneof the great trading cities of the world (57), found problems in adjusting to the Hawkesburyvalley and to the smallness of his congregation (58). James Davison senior was one of agroup of settlers who met on 16 October 1826 to petition the governor to allow McGarvie tostay in New South Wales and to agree to pay 100 pounds a year towards his salary in cattleand other produce. This decision was not reached lightly by the congregation or acceptedlightly by McGarvie himself (59), but once made it obliged the Portland Head Church Trust toorganize permanent accommodation for their minister.

In December 1827 James Davison junior was controversially convicted of cattle-stealing andreceived a commuted sentence of seven years at the Moreton Bay penal settlement, so hisfarm was offered for sale to help pay the costs of his defence (60). Dr Lang, acting for thechurch trust, purchased the farm and a receipt (which survives) for the first instalment ofpayment was given to Lang, dated at Sydney on 4 April 1828 and witnessed by McGarvie:

[Received fr]om Dr Lang the sum of Twenty five Pounds Sterling in part [paymentfor a fa]rm purchased by him and other Trustees on behalf of the Scots Church at[Portland Head] from me, [signed] James Davison (61)

Lang made further payments, recorded on the original receipt, amounting to an additional 200pounds, until the debt was satisfied on 10 July 1829. The money was largely paid directly toDavison's creditors, including over 60 pounds for his court costs and another 60 pounds toAnderson, the schoolmaster (62)

Forty-nine years later Lang noted that he remembered the size of the Manse Farm to be 27acres and reaffirmed this in a statutory declaration just before he died. He acknowledged thatthe property was purchased with money he had collected for that purpose in London in 1825,but that he had never received 'any deeds for the ground' (63). And indeed no formaltransfer of title has been found in Land and Property Information.

It seems that the farmhouse was used by McGarvie as his manse as soon as the agreement wasfinalized in April 1828 and that he resided there for a couple of years until he became thesupply minister for the Presbyterians in Sydney, while Lang was overseas. On Lang's returnin 1831, McGarvie started a congregation of his own in the city, since some members of theScots Church preferred McGarvie's moderate, sophisticated style and literary bent to Lang's'rugged evangelical' individualism and this breakaway group became the congregation ofMcGarvie's St Andrew's church in Kent Street (64)

McGarvie preached in Sydney even while he was resident at Pitt Town and after 1830 he wasfor a time the only Presbyterian minister in the colony. He took pride, however, in his workon the Hawkesbury. He referred to the Pitt Town-Portland Head parish as 'the firstcongregation in connection with the church of Scotland in this country' and in an address of1831-2 he said proudly but humbly that:

If I have no other merit, I have that at least of placing Portland Head on a firm footing... as well as the very excellent School attached to it. It took two years constant and

Strenuous exertion to accomplish it. (65)

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Mark Hutchinson, in his recent history of the Presbyterian church in New South Wales,believes that Portland Head acted 'as a hinge' and McGarvie as a catalyst equal to Lang inshaping the 'issues of great importance in the founding years ofNew South WalesPresbyterianism'. As a result the Old Manse at Pitt Town retains a central role, for within itswalls McGarvie developed his views which so forcibly became part of Presbyterianconsolidation in the colony and explored his philosophical rather than personal disagreementswith Lang (66).

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1.7 The Revd John Cleland, 1831-1839: Extensions to the Manse

McGarvie was replaced at Pitt Town by the Revd John Cleland. Like McGarvie and Lang,Cleland was a Glasgow graduate and, like McGarvie, had come to New South Wales as aresult of Lang's recruitment zeal. After acting as a supply minister during McGarvie'sabsence in Sydney in 1831, Cleland was formally inducted into the Ebenezer ministry in 1832and continued to live in the manse until his death there on 11 March 1839 (67). The RevdJames Cameron, writing seventy years later, refers to Cleland as Portland Head's first'settled' minister and Cleland is the only one of the early ministers to be buried at Ebenezer(68).

The arrival of Cleland and Thomas Thomson with Lang in 1831 meant that there were thenfour Presbyterian ministers in New South Wales. Both the newcomers supported Lang, givinghim a faction strong enough to set up a formal structure in the colony. The three ministers,by-passing McGarvie, set up the Presbytery ofNew South Wales on 14 December 1832 as thedecision-making body. By 1835, when confirmation of the new institution was received fromScotland, McGarvie had joined the Presbytery.. When Thomson returned to Britain in 1835,McGarvie made common cause with Cleland, who was now in opposition to Lang (69), andby November 1835 Cleland had become Moderator of the Presbytery and therefore a personof significant influence (70). As Moderator, Cleland wrote letters from Pitt Town manse tothe colonial government (71) as well as a stinging rebuke to Lang for what the Presbyteryregarded as Lang's 'anomolous, unprecedented, unauthorized and officious interference' in amatter under the Presbytery's jurisdiction regarding the alleged drinking problems of the newminister of Maitland, John Garven (72). It was this reprimand from Cleland which raisedLang's wrath, resulting in him bringing charges of drunkenness also against Cleland himself(73). Cleland (unlike Garven) was acquitted by the Presbytery in 1838, but was admonishedto avoid public houses (74).

As a result of Cleland's position as Moderator in the mid-I 830s, official Presbyterian churchcorrespondence was issued from Pitt Town, making the Old Manse the effective headquartersof colonial Presbyterianism.

In response to the New South Wales Church Acts in 1836 which, within guidelines, gavefinancial assistance to congregations for building (75),Cleland put together a proposal forassistance based on calculations that the Portland Head parish had spent 843 pounds up todate on Ebenezer church and the glebe land, manse and punt at Pitt Town. He sought a grantfor repairs and additions to both the church and the manse. The itemized quotation from theWindsor builder, Peter Adamson, for works proposed to the manse in May 1837 survives, soit is possible to be sure that the manse in 1837 consisted ofjust two rooms, which today formthe east front of the Old Manse. The cottage was roofed with shingles in 1837.

The additions proposed in 1837 were: a new wing at the rear containing two rooms to cost 57pounds 10 shillings; and a kitchen and servant's room (apparently new) to cost 35 pounds 10shillings. The repairs and reshingling of the roof would cost a further 26 pounds 10 shillings(76). These proposals would transform the two-roomed cottage into a six-roomed dwelling.Although there is no documentary proof that these works were actually carried out, it is likelythat the manse was extended at this time, perhaps during the interregnum of ministers from1839 until 184 I.

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1.8 The Revd George Macfie and Flood Damage to the Manse, 1841-1867

Cleland died in 1839 and the next resident minister, George Macfie, who was at Pitt Townfrom 1841 or 1842 until 1867, ran a girls' boarding school on the premises in the 1840s (77):this would have been impossible in a two-roomed cottage.

It was during Macfie's residence in the Old Manse and through his exertions, that the ScotsChurch in Pitt Town was built, in stone, dedicated on 25 May 1862. The sermon wasdelivered by the formidable minister of Richmond, James Cameron. Such ambitiousplanning contrasted with the traditional views of the previous generation ofPitt Towners:John Muir, holidaying with the Macfies at the manse in 1849, had commented that

the people of the neighbourhood are the 'old hands' and have very little idea of thevalue of property, thus a man who steals cattle is said to 'kill his own beef and notthought the bit the worse for it by his neighbour (78).

Macfie, who was yet another Glasgow graduate of moderate persuasion, continued hisministry, using both Ebenezer and Pitt Town churches. He sometimes christened children ofhis parishioners in their own homes: on Monday 3 October 1865 William Grono recorded inhis diary that 'Mr Macfee came and christened William Grono's little boy Alexander andchristened Mrs Savage's little boy Ernest'. The Macfie family in the manse also shared thetrials of disease and flood: Grono noted that in 1866 'Alice was very ill at Macfies' at a timewhen the Hawkesbury was threatening to flood (79).

The Hawkesbury floods of the 1860s were an unprecedented assault by the river, with a dozenoccasions when the river overflowed its banks. The June 1864 flood, which peaked at 14.64metres, was the highest since 1809 (80) and the Macfies were for the first time in their longtenancy of the manse seriously threatened by floodwater entering the building. Howeversince, during floods which came close to the previously known highest level, their house andbelongings had remained safe, they, like the rest of the residents of the Upper Hawkesburyvalley, were unprepared when on 23 June 1867 a massive volume of water took the river to aheight 4 metres above expectations. At Pitt Town most ofthe residents were sheltered in thechurches and schoolhouses, many having been plucked dramatically from the roofs of theirhouses, whilst in Sydney Or Lang, as a member of the Central Flood Relief Fund, worked toraise money to provide food and other aid (81).

Amidst the gales and lashing rain at Pitt Town, the Presbyterian community's minister,George Macfie, and his family were amongst those severely affected, for the floodwatersfilled the ground floor of the manse. The account of the trauma and the damage to the fabricof the building comes directly from Macfie's fellow minister, James Cameron of Richmond,who knew Macfie well and had preached at his new Pitt Town church in 1862:

The flood went through the manse and caused such devastation as to render ituninhabitable. The flood burst into the house at a very inopportune time - thewedding day of one of the daughters of the manse. There was time to tie theknot and nothing more, when the rapidly-rising flood rushed in and swallowedup the wedding breakfast. Through an attic window the bride and bridegroomwere got out into a boat ... In this flood, Mr MacFie lost all his books - a greatloss - and soon after this [in the same year 1867], having now reached anadvanced age [77], he retired and left the district. (82)

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The 'attic window' probably faced west beneath the gable roof on the northern wingconstructed in 1837-41. The upper storey of this wing may have been added by Macfie atsome date between 1841 or 1842 and 1866, but, since Macfie ran a school there in the earlyI840s, it is likely that the upper accommodation was already in place either in Cleland's timeor very early in Macfie's and belongs to Adamson's proposed additions. The type of bricksand the hardness of the shell mortar are consistent with this date of 1837-41. The continuity ofthe brickwork between the earliest part of the manse (the front two rooms) and theseextensions suggests that the repairs works completed at this time must have included theexternal brickwork for all six rooms. (See Appendix 13).

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1.9 After the Flood, 1867-1879

The flood-damaged manse was made habitable again for the next minister. John DunmoreLang in a letter of22 June 1877 specifically refers to the manse as occupied 'for a time' by'Mr Moore' (83). This is the Revd David Moore, who came to Pitt Town as its minister fromWindsor in September 1869 as successor to Macfie. Moore had retired by July 1877 and, afterheated debate among the congregation, was replaced in December by Moore's own successorat Windsor: but, unlike Moore, the Revd Patrick Fitzgerald did not give up his Windsorcharge, continued to live in the Windsor manse and commuted to Pitt Town and Ebenezerunti I the dual appointment was terminated in 1881 (84).

Within a few weeks of Moore's resignation in 1877, the congregation decided to collect fundsto build a new manse; in July 1879 the old manse and its farmland were leased to one of theparishioners, lames Bligh Johnston senior, and in 1883 a new manse near Pitt Town Scotschurch in Bathurst Street was completed (85).

Clearly the flood damage was repaired quickly after 1867 so that the next minister found itpossible to live there 'for a time'. Clearly too the congregation felt that the construction of anew manse on flood-free ground was preferable to full restoration of the old manse buildingafter Moore left in 1877. But the house remained habitable throughout after what seem to beeconomical repairs in 1867-8.

The present back of the northern end of the original two-roomed cottage (McGarvie's manse)is curiously fashioned. The original north chimney had been cut down and blocked, the gablespace around it has been bricked in and the outline of an early, high gable looking west isevident around the chimney (86). An attractive interpretation of these features is that the highgable dates from before 1867 and probably 1837-41, that the original chimney was cut downto accommodate this high gable, that after the flood damage of 1867 the attic storey of thenorth wing was demolished and that the ground floor of the north wing was rebricked andreroofed at a lower level.

Adamson also quoted for the construction of a kitchen and servant's quarters. The location ofthese rooms is not specified in his estimate. It is, however, likely that they too were built in1837-41 and that they were erected on the opposite end of the original house from the newnorth wing. There is a high wall on the west end of the south verandah: a possiblereconstruction of its original purpose is that the kitchen used this as its external wall,projected from the rear ofthe house and had a hipped roof abutting the back of the south frontroom. The south chimney has two decorative, projecting brick features: the upper of theseprojects on all four sides, but the one near the base is smooth on the west side only. Wherethe gable would have connected with the chimney base there is a receiving edge of brick..The brickwork down the south side of the house is continuous, as on the other end, furthersuggesting extensive renewal of external brickwork in 1837-41. If the kitchen were designedthus, the servant's room would be adjacent, in the central area ofthe back verandah, under askillion roof as today. (See Appendix 13)

As part of the damage caused by the 1867 flood, the internal high wall between the servant'sroom and the kitchen may have been damaged: if the back wall of the kitchen were lowered tothe skillion level of the servant's room, the present curious configuration would be explained.

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Meticulous examination of the roof structure of the McGarvie manse by an experiencedconservation architect is, however, necessary to verifY these interpretations.

A sketch made in 1954 by Gifford Eardley and a 1950 photograph published by Arndell showthe early gable without any visible northern chimney (87), and Roy Johnston, the owner atthat time, confirms that no change was made to the roof structure within his knowledge,which through his grandfather, extends back to around 1898. Roy's own memory confirmsthat there were no fabric changes to the north wing between 1930 and 1954, which suggeststhat Matthew MacNally exercised some artistic licence in his 1931 watercolour which showsa north chimney (88). Certainly the records of the Presbyterian church which was thelandlord of the Old Manse, available from 1877 to 1883, indicate no change in the fabric norexpenditure on it; only rental return is shown (89).

The evidence is persuasive that the repairs which had made the manse habitable for Mooreafter the 1867 flood were the last major changes undertaken by the church. After Moore leftin 1877, no minister lived in the old manse and in 1883 a new manse was completed at PittTown on a different site out of flood-reach in Bathurst Street just east of the church (90). Anyfunds available were to be diverted to the building of the new manse even as early as 1877(91 )

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1.10 Leasing of the former Manse and its Farm, 1879-1959

The Presbyterian church decided to lease the property after the Revd David Moore left in]877 and in ]883 built a new manse near the Pitt Town church in Bathurst Street. The firstknown tenant of the Old Manse was James Bligh Johnston senior, a prominent parishioner,son of Andrew Johnston, one of the original Coromandel settlers. The Ebenezer/Pitt TownChurch Management Committee agreed to a one-year lease, terminating on 30 June 1880 at arental of thirty pounds (92). At the end of this period, following an advertisement in the localpaper, Johnston renewed his lease for five years (93).

It is not known what happened at the expiry of Johnston's lease in 1885, but around] 891 SamPhillips entered on the tenancy (94), followed by a Mr Hipwell and, around 1896, by JamesAlexander Greenfield, whose son Edwin recalled living 'as a boy ... for a time in the houseupon the property' (95). According to Edwin Greenfield, little changed until 1959, as 'thetenants of the church occupy the whole of the area and the fences have always been in thesame position as shown [on an accompanying plan]' (96).

Around] 898 Sydney Alexander Johnston, Roy's grandfather, rented the Old Manse propertyafter James Greenfield and farmed there until 1938: in 1939 his son Ken took over the lease(97). From Presbyterian records it appears that the leases had normally run for five-yearperiods ever since 1880 (98). Towards the end of Ken Johnston's final lease, begun inDecember 1955, his son Roy, and Roy's wife Dot, who had been living in the Old Mansebuilding since their marriage in 1945, decided to buy the property since the PresbyterianChurch Property Trust had offered it for sale to finance the building of a third (the present)manse to replace the 1883 manse near the Pitt Town church (99).

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1.11 Purchase by Roy Johnston in 1959 and subsequent owners

The purchase by Roy and Dot Johnston in 1959 ended a period of more than six decades ofconsistent leasing of the Old Manse Farm by two generations of the Johnston family. Early inthis period, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Sydney Johnston had planted an orchardalong the river flats, sweeping southwards along the east bank of Bardenarang Creek: the treeswere largely navel oranges, with some valencias, mandarins and stone fruit. The lastsurvivors of this orchard were removed in the late 1940s or early 1950s by Roy Johnston. Infront of the house, facing Punt Road Sydney had also planted 50 or 60 Glen Retreatmandarins in rows of seven, some of which were featured in MacNally's watercolour of 1931:they were also removed by Roy. Close to the house on the river side were two rows of dateplums. Between these and the alluvial soil of the flood-plain, Sydney and Ken had grownvegetables such as beetroots, turnips and broad beans. In their early years on the property,Roy and Dot, like Roy's father and grandfather, had grown pumpkins, beans and watermelonfor the Sydney market on the alluvial river end as well as to the west of the house towardsBardenarang Creek (100). Currently the land is used for grazing.

Roy and Dot Johnston constructed the present entrance and causeway from Punt Road around1945. Prior to this, the entrance had been halfway along the 600-metre boundary on the southside along Pitt Town Bottoms Road. This track had run north behind the long shed built bySydney (and rebuilt in the 1980s) and then turned east to the house (101).

Roy believes that during the successive tenancies of Sydney and Ken few changes to thefabric of the original manse took place. Most of the new works were corrugated ironadditions behind the manse, detailed in Appendix 17 and visible in Gifford Eardley's 1954sketch. Also behind the manse there had been a buggy yard, in an area paved with earlybricks, but in Roy's memory only a few scattered bricks remained (102).

Most of the changes to the manse done during the ownership of Roy and Dot between 1945and 1980, documented in Appendix 17 , did not affect the main fabric. Deterioration of thefabric had occurred after 1938 when no-one lived in the house and by 1945 the timberverandah posts had rotted severely at the base. To remedy this Dot's father, Fred Thorn,sawed off the rotten part of the posts, built a low retaining wall at the outer edge of theverandah, concreted a slightly raised verandah floor and anchored the abbreviated posts tonew cement blocks, which survive today. The back walls were pulled upright by a barthrough the wall into the southern front room (103).

The property boundary in relation to Bardenarang Creek had become blurred over time.Tylor's 1797 grant had extended to the north of the creek where it swung east to join theHawkesbury: otherwise the creek lay to the west ofTylor's rectangular grant. But probably asearly as 1811, when Fleming sold part of Fleming's Farm to David Brown, the effectiveboundary became the creek itself, so that the Tylor grant lost about 3 acres to the north onthe Hawkesbury frontage. The legal status of this triangle of land between the creek and theriver was not definitively resolved until 1964 when the occupier, Norbert Cleary, successfullyargued in court that he had right to the land since he had been in occupation of it for overtwenty years (104). The present Old Manse Farm has therefore a very restricted frontage ontothe river.

A few small buildings have existed on the property, on the flood plain, but are no longer inexistence. The punt house remembered by Roy Johnston lay on the eastern side of Punt Road

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and was accordingly not within lot 101. Punt Road itself appears on maps by the late 1840s,but may be earlier. At the river end of Punt Road, on the manse land, there was in Roy'schildhood a small hut used by waterskiers: there were also a pair of corrugated-iron change­sheds and toilets on either side of Punt Road, with one set on Old Manse Farm (105).

When Roy and Dot Johnston bought the farm in 1959, it was surveyed as 30 acres 1 rood 18Yz perches. When they sold the property in 1980, they subdivided it into two new allotments,101 and 102. Lot 101, the northern part of the farm, is the present study area, consisting of12.19 hectares. On the eastern section of lot 102, the small remaining southern part, Roy andDot built their present house (l06).

1.12 Ownership and Changes since 1980

Theo Dygraft bought lot 101, including the old manse, at Christmas 1980. Within four yearshe had removed the rear additions to the house made by the Johnstons and the local QuilderFrank Bayliss added a new, two-storied north-west wing with dormer windows; recycledtimber from other properties was used for interior trim. Dygraft also built new outbuildings tothe south of the house, replacing those of the Johnstons (107).

In 1987 Dygraft sold the remodelled house and the land to John and Susan Ward, who in turnsold to Thomas and Alison Gleeson in August 1987. The Gleesons added further rooms to theDygrafts' north-west wing, bringing the house to its present configuration. In 1999 Angeloand Zita Scali purchased the property and it is currently occupied by their son Marcello Scali(108).

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1. 'Plan showing location ofland' in Torrens title vo\. 15174 fo.138, in Land and PropertyInformation (LPI), Government Repository, Kingswood (GRK), Primary Application 41507 (K266096): see Appendix 1

2. LPI, Grants of Land, Register 1, series 1, 1792-1794, pp.21O-301; series 2 (lA), 1794-1796,pp.302-503; Register 2, 1795-1800, pp.53-224, 334

3. J. Barkley in J. Barkley and M. Nichols, Hawkesbury, 1794-1994: the First 200 Years oftheSecond Colonisation, Hawkesbury City Council, Windsor 1994, 1,2,15

4. W. Tench, Sydney's First Four Years, Library of Australian History, North Sydney 1979,229-233

5. LPI, Grants of Land, Register 2, p.188

6. M. Flynn, Settlers and Seditionists: the People ofthe Convict Ship Surprize, 1794, AngelaLind, Sydney 1994, 75

7. LPI, Grants of Land, Register 2, p.180: see Appendix 2

8. E. Roberts, 'The Fleming Connection' in R. Warner, ed., Over-Hailing the Colony: GeorgeHall- Pioneer, Australian Documents Library, Sydney 1990, 161

9. B. Hardy, Early Hawkesbury Settlers, Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst 1985,119-120

10. Amended plan ofH.F. Busby, surveyor, 16 October 1959, in LPI, GRK, Primary Application41507, (K 266096): see Appendix 3

11. Hardy, Early Hawkesbury Settlers, 119,150; R. Ryan, Land Grants, 1788-1809, AustralianDocuments Library, Netley 1981, 29

12. C. Baxter, ed., Musters and Lists, New South Wales and Norfolk Island, 1800-1802, ABGRand Society of Australian Genealogists, Sydney 1988, AA 373 (1800), 13

13. Johnston to Castlereagh, correspondence and returns relating to Bligh's Farm, 11 April 1808,'7. Some Observations on his Excellency's Farm', Andrew Thompson to Bligh c.1807,Historical Records ofAustralia (HRA) series 1, Sydney 1914-25, VI 367; parish map of PiuTown, LP1, Grants of Land, Register 3, p.l 02 no. 102 (4)

14. Johnston to Castlereagh, correspondence and returns relating to Bligh's Farm, 11 April 1808,'2. Copy of Memorandum in Governor Bligh's Handwriting, 1807', HRA series 1, VI 362

15. Ibid., '1. Mr Andrew Thompson to Governor Bligh, 17 October 1807; 6. Declaration ofAndrew Thompson, 19 December 1807", HRA series 1, VI 361, 366; Sydney Gazette, 6 August1828

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16. D. Bowd, Macquarie Country, author, Windsor 1969, 80; R. Arndell, Pioneers ofPortlandHead, Smith and Paterson, Fortitude Valley 1976,97

17 Baxter, ed., Musters and Lists, 1800-1802, AA 24 (1800), 14

18. Ibid., BD 135 (1801),109; AG 458 (1802), 86

19. C. Baxter, ed., Musters ofNew South Wales and Norfolk Island, 1805-1806, Musters ofNewSouth ABGR and Society of Australian Genealogists, Sydney 1989, B 0623, 140,141

20. Extract from petition of Patrick Hynes, Hawkesbury farmer from 1796, State Records NSW,Colonial Secretary, 4/1821 no.154, fiche 3005, 8 January 1810. See Appendix 19

21. LPI, Grants of Land, Register 2, p. 237

22. LPI, Book 10 no. 508

23. Roberts in Over-Hailing the Colony, 162

24. Sydney Gazette, 9 October 1819; Hardy, Early Hawkesbury Settlers, 119; , E. Parkes and E.Roberts, 'Flemming family file', Local Studies Collection, Hawkesbury Library, Windsor

25. Roberts in Over-Hailing the Colony, 161

26. J. McGarvie, address in Sydney, 9 December 1832, McGarvie Papers, Ferguson Library,261/1, A 25; Arndell, Pioneers ofPortland Head, 19

27. Roberts in Over-Hailing the Colony, 162; Sydney Gazette, 28 October 1815

28. Sydney Gazette, 29 March 1817

29. Sydney Gazette, 18 September 1819, Government notice, 4 September 1819; Roberts inOver-Hailing the Colony, 164

30. Sydney Gazette, 27 November 1819

31. Sydney Gazette, 16 November 1806

32. LPI, Book L no. 994

33. Ibid.; Baxter, ed., Musters, 1805-1806, A 0220 p.1O

34. James Davisonjunior's Memorial requesting land for stock, State Records NSW, ColonialSecretary, Correspondence, 24 October 1825, in Jeannie Scott's Chronological Index, LocalStudies, Hawkesbury Library, Windsor

35. Baxter, Musters, 1805-1806, B 0623 pp.140, 141; LPI, Book L no. 994; Sydney Gazette, 27November 1819

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36. John Dunmore Lang, letter, 22 June 1877, in LPI/GRK, Primary Application 41507 (K266096), see Appendix 4; Bowd, Macquarie Country, 80; Arndell, Pioneers ofPortland Head,97

37. Arndell, Pioneers ofPortland Head, 96, 97

38. Ibid., 105

39. Bowd, Macquarie Country, 80; Memorial of James Davisonjunior, requesting permission torun a punt, 8 October 1821, Colonial Secretary, Correspondence, State Records NSW, 4/1750pp. I73-5, in Jeannie Scott's Chronological Index, Local Studies, Hawkesbury Library, Windsor,

40. National Trust of Australia, NSW Branch, Inventory Sheet, Listing Proposal NTN 05/3406,31 May 1976. See Appendix 5

41. Arndell, Pioneers of Portland Head, 94, 187

42. Sale receipt, 4 April 1828, in LPI/GRK, PA 41507 (K 266096). See Appendix 6

43. Lang, letter, 22 June 1877, in LPIIGRK, PA 41507 (K 266096)

44. Lang, Statutory Declaration, 5 August 1878 (see Appendix 7), and letter, 22 June 1877, in. LPIIGRK, PA 41507 (K 266096)

45. Information from Marcello Scali, 26 August 2002

46. Norbert Cleary v. R.A. Johnston and Registrar General, NSW Supreme Court in Equity,no.658. of 1964. See Appendix 8

47. Colonial Secretary, Correspondence, 25 April 1822, State Records NSW, 411760, pp.44-5, inJeannie Scott's Chronological Index, Local Studies, Hawkesbury Library, Windsor

48. Colonial Secretary, Correspondence, 8 October 1821, State Records NSW, 4/1750, pp.173-5

49. Colonial Secretary, Correspondence, 25 April 1822, State Records NSW, 4/1760, pp.44-5;Sydney Gazette, 2 January 1823 in R. Stubbs, The History ofEarly Pitt Town, Ladan, Windsorn.d., 18

50. J. McGarvie, diary, 1825-1828, Mitchell Library, A 1332 (CY 866), Tuesday 30 May 1826

51. Colonial Secretary, Correspondence, 8 October 1821, State Records NSW, 411750, pp.173-5;Map of Pitt Town c.] 833, State Records NSW, AO Map 48. See Appendix 9

52. J. Cleland, copy of letter on back of Adamson's estimate, May 1837, Ferguson Library, StAndrew's Scots Church, Miscellaneous Documents and Letters, J. McGarvie, 1833-1837, C 14;Bowd, Macquarie Country, 80

53. Arndell, Pioneers ofPortland Head, 99

54. Ibid., 99, 100

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55. Map by Felton Mathew, copied Perry, 1839, State Records NSW, AO Map 5047; seeAppendix 10

56. Stubbs, Early Pill Town, 19; photograph, Appendix 11

57. Australian Dictionary 0/Biography, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, II 1989, 166;McGarvie, diary, 1825-1828, Mitchell Library, A 1332 (CY 866), 30, 31 May, 25 September1826

58. McGarvie, diary, 1825-1828, Mitchell Library, A 1332 (CY 866), 25 September 1826

59. Ibid., 31 May, 25 June, 26 October 1826; Memorial re salaries of Presbyterian ministers, 5April 1836, Ferguson Library, C 14

60. Arndell, Pioneers o/Portland Head, 100-3; Receipt, 4 April 1828 in LPVGRK, PA 41507 (K266096). See Appendix 6

61. Receipt, 4 Apri I 1828 in LPIIGRK, PA 41507 (K 266096). See Appendix 6

62. Ibid.; John Anderson, letter to Cleland, 5 April 1836, Ferguson Library, C 14

63. Lang, letter, 22 June 1877 and Statutory Declaration, 5 August 1878, in LPIIGRK, PA 41507(K 266096)

64. M Hutchinson, Iron in our Blood: a History o/the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales,1788-2001, Ferguson Publications and Centre for the Study of Australian Christianity, Sydney2001,32-4

65. McGarvie, address in Sydney, 9 December 1832, Ferguson Library, 261/1, A 25. 'Thisdiscourse was preached ... 3 April 1831 ... altogether written over ... 9 December 1832.'

66. Hutchinson, Iron in our Blood, 16, 17, 19,32, 33

67. Ibid., 40; R.S. Ward and M.D. Prentis, Presbyterian Ministers in Australia, 1822-1901:Biographical Register. New Melbourne Press, Wantirna 2001,35

68. J. Cameron, Centenary History o/the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales, Angus andRobertson, Sydney 1905, 248

69. Hutchinson, Iron in our Blood, 40, 41, 46

70. Cleland, letter to Colonial Secretary from Pitt Town, 26 November 1835, Ferguson Library,C 14

71. Ihid.

72. Cleland, letter to Lang from Mulgrave Place, 22 February 1836, National Library of Australia(NLA), Lang Papers, MS 3267,Box 1 folder 1, JAF 158/28

73. Lang, letter to Cleland, 18 April 1836, NLA, MS 3267, Box I folder 2, JAF 158/29

74. Ward and Prentis, Presbyterian Ministers, 35

75. Hutchinson, Iron in our Blood, 59

76. P. Adamson, 'Probable Expense for repairs and addition to the Presbyterian Ministers' houseat Pittowen', Ferguson Library, C 14,29 May 1837. See Appendix 12

77. Jeannie Scott, Chronological Index, Local Studies, Hawkesbury Library, Windsor; Ward andPrentis, Presbyterian Ministers, 119

78. Amdell, Pioneers o/Portland Head, 103; Bowd, Macquarie Country, 81

79. William Grono, diary, 1865-1867, in private hands, 3 October 1865,14-20 June 1866

80. J. Barkley in Barkley and Nichols, Hawkesbury, 1794-1994, 70-2, 178

81. Ibid., 72, 73

82. Cameron, Centenary History 0/Presbyterian Church, 249

83. Lang, letter, 22 June 1877, LPI/GRK, PA 41507 (K 266096)

84. Ward and Prentis, Presbyterian Ministers, 61,119,157

85. Minutes of congregational meetings at Pitt Town, 1877-1883, Ferguson Library, W 36,11July, 28 August 1877; 6 June 1878; 1 July, 15 October 1879; Cameron, Centenary History 0/Presbyterian Church, 249

86. See photographs, Appendix 13

87. G. Eardley, views ofPitt Town, Mitchell Library, PXA 164 no.47, August 1954; Amdell,Pioneers o/Portland Head, plate 25. See Appendix 14 (copy of Eardley by J. Barkley Jack)

88. Information from Roy Johnston, Pitt Town, 26 August 2002; MJ. MacNally, watercolour ofOld Manse, Mitchell Library, VIB/Pittll11931. See Appendix 14

89. Minutes of committee of management for Ebenezer/Pitt Town church, 1877-1883, FergusonLibrary, W 36

90. Cameron, Centenary History 0/Presbyterian Church, 249. See Appendix 15

91. Minutes of committee of management for Ebenezer IPitt Town church, Ferguson Library, W36, 28 August, 9 October 1877

92. Ibid., I July 1879

93. Ibid., 17,28 June 1880

94. J.W. Smallwood, Statutory Declaration, in LPIIGRK, PA 41507 (K 266096)

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95. FJ. Johnston and E.C. Greenfield, Statutory Declarations, in LPI/GRK, PA 41507 (K266096)

96. Ibid. See Appendix 16

97. Ibid.

98. FJ. Wallen for Presbyterian Church Trust, in LPI/GRK, PA 41507 (K 266096); Minutes ofcommittee of management for Ebenezer/Pitt Town church, Ferguson Library, W 36, 28 June1880

99. Bowd, Macquarie Country, 81; Wallen for Presbyterian Church Trust, in LPVGRK, PA41507 (K 266096); information from Roy Johnston, 26 August 2002

100. Information from Roy Johnston, 13 September 2002; LPI, Book 2517 no.139. (sale 31December 1959); plan, 16 October 1959, in LPIIGRK, PA 41507 (K 266096). See Appendix 1

101. Information from Roy Johnston, 13 September 2002

102. Information from Roy Johnston, 26 August 2002

103. Ibid. See Appendix 17

104. N. Cleary, Statutory Declaration in Norbert Cleary v. Roy Alexander Johnston and RegistrarGeneral, NSW Supreme Court in Equity, no.658 of 1964, in LPIIGRK, PA 41507 (K 266096)

105. Information from Roy Johnston, 26 August 2002; map ofPitt Town, c.1846-50, StateRecords NSW, AO Map 342. See Appendices 11, 18

106. 'Plan showing location ofland' in LPI, vol. 15174 fo.138 (see Appendix 1); 'Plan of detailover part of lot 101, DP 635129, Punt Road, Pitt Town', McKinlay Morgan and Associates,Windsor, 30 November 2000

107. Information from Roy Johnston, 13 September 2002

108. J.H. Potts, 'The Old Manse: Conservation Plan, report to Angelo Scali', April 2001, 6;information from Roy Johnston, 13 September 2002

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I certify that the person named in the First Schedule i~ the registered proprietor of an estate in fee simple (or such otherestate or interest as is set out belowl in the land described subject lo the recordings appearing in the Second Schedule andto the provisions of the Real Property Act, 1900.

Registrar General.

Appendix 1

CERTIFICATE OF TITLE

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1. Hcserv~tlons and conditions In the Crown Grant.2. CAUTIUN. The land within described is held subject to any subsisting interest (as defined

in Section 28A Real Property Act. 1900) affecting the part comprised in DeedBook 3448 No. 674.

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Appendix 4. Letter from Dr John Dunmore Lang 22 J, une 1877: footnote 36

Appendix 5

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PI'l'T TOWNFORMER MANSE OF EBENEZER CHURCH

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CLASSIFIED

D. SHEEDYAuthor ofProposal

Date ofProposal

,SuggestedListingCategory

A single storey early Colonial sandstock brick manse built c.1828 byAndrew Johriston as the manse for Ebenezer Church. Steeply pitchedhipped roof extends over verandah all round .supported on chamferedtimber posts. Fenestration to front has central six panelled timberdoor with pairs of shuttered French doors having margined glazedsashes. A small attic is reached by a simple stair while one originalGeorgian pattern fireplace surround remains.Original two storey wing at rear has been demolished which probablycontained part of first kitchen. Condition is only fair but capable

of restoration.

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ofConstructionPrewntConditionHistoryOwnersBoundariesof proposedlisting

Council APPROVED CL Advised 17/6/76(Trust Usal d/Is /7fG COpy to Windsor CouncilDeteription Briefly cover the points on the following check list where theY are relevant and within your knowledge.

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Reasons for listing

A good representative of the early Colonial house that has historicassociations with Ebenezer Church and which also serves to enhancethe 'old world' ,illage atmosphere of Pitt Town.

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And I make this solemn declarution conscientiously believing the sameto be. true,. and by virtu? of the provisions of an Act made and passed inthe nmth year of the ReIgn of Her present Majesty intituled " An A t:: for th.e mor.e effectual abolition of Oaths and Afnrmations taken a;d

made III vanous Departments of the Govel'llment of New South Wale:: anfd tlo substitute Declo:rut~ons in lieu thereof, and for the suppressio~~

o vo untary and extra-JudICial Oaths and Affidavits."

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Appendix 7. Statutory Declaration from Or John Dunmore Lang, 5 August 1878: footnote 44

Appendix 8

IN THE SUPBF.ME COURT ))

OF NJ21 SOUTH WAL1!$ ) No.)

IN EQUITY )

of 1964

NOBBERT CLFJtRX

Plaintiff

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.Qli the day of ~ One thousand

nine hundred and sixty four NORBgnT CL~\~X ofP~l Street,

Vermont, Pitt Town, in the State of New South Wales,

Ol"chardist, being duly sworn makes oath and says as

follo'W's:-

J • I am ~he plaintiff herein.

2, By Deed of Conveyance dated the twenty second day

of September One thousand nine hundred and thirty nine

made between ~ana Mary Edith Pandergast of the one part

and myself' of' the other part I became and still am seised

as beneficial owner of an estate in fee simple of all·

that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement

twenty three acres tvo roods nitleteen parches being part

of Portions fifteen and sixteen at ?itt Town in the Parish

of Pitt Town County of Cumberland and State of N~w South

Wales Commencing at a point on the northern boundary of.the Pitt Town's Bottom Road at its intersection with the

left bank of Bandenerang Creek and bounded thence on the

South East by the left bank of that Creek trend1ng in a

north easterly direction to the Hawkesbury ~iver thonce

on the north west by part of the ri~ht bank of the

Hawkesbury River trending in a south westerly direction

to the intersection of the eastern boundary of Portion

seventeen and thence on the west by fenced lines bearing

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Appendix 8. Statutory Declaration from Norhert rlp~rv ')~ Tlln" 1OhA. +""t~"to At;

- ~ -southerly two thousand one hundred and thirty five links

and nine hundred and thirty eight links to· Pitt Town's

Bottom Road and thenc~ on the south by part of the

northern side of that Road being a line bearing easterly

for\one hundred and forty links to the point of coo.mence-

ment.

3. The said Deed of Conveyance was on the Eleventh

day of October 1939, duly registered pursuant td the

provisions of the Registration of Deeds Act 1~7 and

bears reference No. lt5'9 Book 135'6. Annexed hereto and

marked with the letter "A" is a true copy of the said

Deed of Conveyance.

It. I have received notice dated 18th April 1964 fran

the Registrar General that Roy Alexander Johnston has

applied to bring certain land described as 30 acres 0

roods 29 perches part of Portions 15, 16 and 46 of the

Parish of Pitt To-lin Corner Road to viindsor and Pitt Town

and a Road of' Varying 'I'!idth and bounded by the llawkesbury

River under the provisions of the Real Property Act 1900.

The said Roy Alexander JOhnston is claiming by possession

adversely to the documentary owner. The application

bears the nUlnber 415()'l. Annexed hereto and marked with

the letter nB ll is the said not:tcG together with Real

Property Act Notice and Copy Plan of the said land.

7. Portion of the land the subject of the said

application is identical with portion of the land des­

cribed in paragraph 2 hereof to which I claim to be

entitled as beneficial owner in fee simple. Such portion

of land is situated at the intersection of the Hawkesbury

River and Bandencrang Creek and is bOUnded by the said

River to the north vest and by the said Creek to the.south east and forms the north eastern extremity of the

land described in paragraph 2 hereof. This portion of

land shown in the said plan 'Which is bounded by the said

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Bandcnerang Creek to the south .east, the said Hawkesbury

River to the north west and the line edged in red linking

the said River to the said Creek and referred to as being

11280' Ck. to ·River" to the west.

Q. I took possession of the land described in para­

graph 2 hereof on the 22nd day of September 1939. At

this time there was no fence along either the River

boundary or the Creek boundary. Shortly after I took

possession a make-shift post and barbed wire fence vas

erected along a line connecting the Creek to the River"

cutting off the portion of land referred to in pa.ragraph

5 hereof from the remainder of the land referred to in

paragraph 2. I do not know who erected this fence but

I removl9d same as soon as I saw it.

7. Prior to the purchase by me of the land referred

.to in pa.ragraph 2 hereof the said land was leased by.

Sydney Johnston, grandfather of the said Roy Alexander

Johnston from the said Jane Mary Edith ?endergast. At

the time of the said purchase Syd~ey Johnston had a crop

planted on the said land which he harvested after I took

possession. Therea.fter neither the said Sydney J<?hnston

nor his successors in title have attempted to exercise

any right over nor made any cla1.m to the said land.

$. At the time of the said purchase by me Sydney

Johnston also held the land immed1~tely to the south

east of Bandenerang Creek on lease. Thereafter Roy

Alexander Johnston purchased this land. Of this land

the land the subject of the said application forms part.

9. Since the harvest by Sydney Johnston of th~ crop

referred to in paragraph 7 hereof I have been in exclusive

possession of the land referred to in paragraph 2 hereof.

During such time I have worked the said land as an

orchard and vegetable farm and have grazed cattle upon

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it. I am at present in possession of the said land

and have cattle grazing thereon.

]0, I allege that noy Alexander Johnston has no just

lawful cause to make the said application and 1 have on

the Twenty second day of April 1964 lodged a Caveat

against the same with the Registrar General, New South

't/ales.

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the day and year first ))

abovementioned at OCYffI:lm'-j:.:(,J)

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Appendix 10. Map compiled by Perry, 1839, StateRecords NSW, AO Map 5047 :footnote 5::;

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Appendix 17

Changes to the fabric of the Old Manse Farmhouse, 1898-1980

Source: Roy and Dot Johnston, 26 August, 13 September 2002

1898-1938: Sydney Johnston, lessee/occupant

I. buggy yard paved with hand-made bricks (but perhaps there before 1898)

2. corrugated-iron room from back door to northern side of the farmhouse, containing a large fireplace withan external corrugated-iron chimney, and a stove and copper put in by WaIter Brown ofMaraylya (Roy'sgreat-uncle)

3. outbuildings constructed to the south-west of the house (totally rebuilt by Theo Dygraft in 1980s)

4. tank in front of south-eastern room

1939-1944: Kenneth Johnston, lessee

I. lack ofoccupation resulted in deterioration of fabric

2. vandals removed most of the cedar doors and 9-inch cedar skirting board

3. ripple-iron ceilings in skillion remained

1945-1980: Roy and Dot Johnston, occupants 1945-1959, owners 1959-1980

I. 1945: the back walls of the house were coming away so were pulled back by a bar attached through thewall ofthe southern front room

2. 1945: wooden verandah flooring was replaced with cement, bases of the early verandah posts were sawnoff and the upper parts supported by metal spikes to cement bases on new flooring

3. c.1960: Sydney Johnston's corrugated-iron room was removed and a timber-framed room added to thewestern end ofthe house. The corrugated iron was reused to clad this room. Later the room wasdemolished and Roy's son Jeffbuilt a large iron room right across the back. This in turn was removed in the1980s by Theo Dygraft

4. c.1977: window of the kitchen, near southern room, was pulled out and replaced with a doorway anddoor, which were reconverted to the present window by Dygraft in the 1980s

5. the western end of the northern verandah was enclosed in brick to create an extra bedroom

6. Ted Greenfield blocked the rear section of the northern chimney (serving the rear room): the front roomchimney had already been cut down and blocked around 1840

7. a tennis court was created beside the north end ofthe house

8. the south-western corner of the southern verandah was filled in for a bathroom using corrugated iron

9. water-tanks were erected at the south and north sides of the house

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