Title: Correspondence etc, relating to the Geelong & Dutigalla Association
Date: 1835-1836
Accession Number: MS10258
Image Number: pp0011-002-0

Letter from J. T. Gellibrand to J. Ball, Feb. 19 1836.

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trace the finger of Providence & that we shall be the
humble instruments of communicating temporal
and eternal happiness to our benighted brethren
if we only sow the seed we may expect a blessing upon
it & that its effects will extend over the Continent
of new Holland – Mr Orton (the Wesleyan missionary
at Hobart Town) will proceed to Port Philip next week for
the express purpose of visiting the natives & deciding upon
sending at once a missionary to the Settlement – he will
have every support from us & the Friends of Humanity
at this place & by the time you return to V.D L you
will find Port Philip a prosperous & a happy colony.

I have now to inform you that the Lands -
have been divided into 17 sections – Mr Mercers I have
been over & you may inform him that it is in my
judgment the finest of the whole, it is well watered
& there is a Vale which I have named Mercers Vale
of about 15000 acres of the finest & richest Land I ever
passed over. Swanstons 2 lots Mercers & mine all
join they contain about 200,000 acres, & I assure
you that there is not one acre of bad Land upon
that quantity. I never saw such a beautiful Country
in my life & no exertions or price ought to
be spared in obtaining it. We notices on
to ₤50,000 but it will be dirt cheap at ₤100,000!!

Our Dear & mutual friend Naylor has half of Sams’s

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