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32 Facts About James Squire

1.

James Squire was convicted of stealing in 1785 and was transported to Australia as a convict on the First Fleet in 1788.

2.

James Squire ran a number of successful ventures during his life, including a farm, a popular tavern called The Malting Shovel, a bakery, a butcher shop and a credit union.

3.

James Squire became a town constable in the Eastern Farms district of Sydney.

4.

In 1774, when James Squire fled a ransacked house, he ran straight into several members of the local constabulary and was arrested for highway robbery.

5.

James Squire then managed a hotel in Heathen Street, Kingston.

6.

James Squire stole five hens and four cocks and diverse other goods and chattels from John Stacey's yard, just when the British Government needed people for the transported convict program.

7.

James Squire was sentenced to 7 years' transportation, beyond the seas.

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8.

When James Squire was convicted and transported to Australia as a convict, it was very rare for convicts or their family to attain permission, or even afford to join them in their exile, so Martha and his children were left in England alone.

9.

James Squire was sentenced to transportation for 5 years, and left England on the Prince of Wales aged about 19 at that time.

10.

Unable to care for Francis, James Squire enrolled him in the British Army at just 15 months of age.

11.

James Squire then maintained an affair over a number of years with his live-in housekeeper Lucy Harding.

12.

James Squire eventually moved into her private residence on Castlereagh Street, Sydney in 1816.

13.

James Squire resolved, therefore, to examine Port Jackson, a bay mentioned by Captain James Cook as immediately to the north of this.

14.

James Squire was then arraigned before the magistrate, charged with stealing 'medicines' from the hospital stores where he worked at Port Jackson.

15.

Somewhere between 1790 and 1792 James Squire's sentence had expired and he was now a free man and he was able to start his life over again.

16.

James Squire was an extremely enterprising man and by mid-1800 he had ten sheep, 18 pigs and 35 goats.

17.

James Squire's household was composed of him and Elizabeth Mason, six children, four free men and two government servants and was self-supporting.

18.

James Squire had erected a plaque to commemorate his dear friend.

19.

On 3 May 1817, James Squire advertised his estate for sale in the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser.

20.

Evidence shows that the estate did not sell as James Squire was the name of the licensee until at least 1822.

21.

James Squire stated at the Bigge inquiry into New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land in 1820 that he had been brewing for 30 years and that he made it from hops he got from the Daedalus.

22.

On 11 March 1806 James Squire attended Government House with two vines of hops taken from his own grounds.

23.

James Squire then worked in a credit union style of banking and was widely known for his fair play as a lender and a philanthropist to his poorer neighbours.

24.

The Sydney Gazette is riddled with articles submitted by James Squire, warning others of trespassers and thefts.

25.

For example, in the Sydney Gazette on 3 July 1803 James Squire submitted a notice of theft of a boat.

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26.

James Squire opened "The Malting Shovel" Tavern on the shores of Parramatta River, in the Eastern Farm district of Kissing Point which is almost halfway between Sydney town and Parramatta.

27.

At this meeting, James Squire obtained the judge's permission to be licensed for the sale of spirituous liquors at The Malting Shovel.

28.

James Squire was the first that brought Hops to any perfection and hence was enabled to brew beer of an excellent quality.

29.

James Squire's death was marked with the biggest funeral ever held in the colony.

30.

James Squire was buried at the Devonshire Street Cemetery, and his remains and headstone were later moved to Botany Cemetery when Central station was built.

31.

James Squire arrived in the colony in the First Fleet and by Integrity and Industry acquired and maintained an unsullied reputation.

32.

In 1877, James' grandson, James Squire Farnell, became the eighth premier of New South Wales.