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Charles Jeffreys (1782-1826) British Australia - Hobart Town in 1817

Charles Jeffreys (1782-1826) British Australia - Hobart Town in 1817. A Sketcher, author and naval officer, Charles Jeffreys entered the Royal Navy aged 111 and was commissioned Lieutenant in March 1805. He came to New South Wales in January 1814 as a Commander on the Brig ‘Kangaroo’ which was immediately commissioned to transport convicts from Port Jackson to Van Dieman’s Land. Governor Macquarie labelled him ‘a vain, conceited and ignorant young man’,. While in His Majesty’s Service, Jeffreys indulged in illicit rum smuggling, turning a blind eye to convict stowaways on board and accepting an escaped government debtor as a paying passenger. He drew a sketch of Hobart Town in 1817, the present work, and wrote a book ‘Geographical and Descriptive Delineations of the Island of Van Dieman’s Land’ published in London 1820 which was later claimed to have been stolen from George Williams Evans. He arrived back with his wife in May 1820 as a settler and was granted 800 acres at Pittwater near Hobart. He died there on 12 May 1826 and was buried at Sorrell.Charles Jeffreys (1782-1826) British Australia - Hobart Town in 1817. A Sketcher, author and naval officer, Charles Jeffreys entered the Royal Navy aged 111 and was commissioned Lieutenant in March 1805. He came to New South Wales in January 1814 as a Commander on the Brig ‘Kangaroo’ which was immediately commissioned to transport convicts from Port Jackson to Van Dieman’s Land. Governor Macquarie labelled him ‘a vain, conceited and ignorant young man’,. While in His Majesty’s Service, Jeffreys indulged in illicit rum smuggling, turning a blind eye to convict stowaways on board and accepting an escaped government debtor as a paying passenger. He drew a sketch of Hobart Town in 1817, the present work, and wrote a book ‘Geographical and Descriptive Delineations of the Island of Van Dieman’s Land’ published in London 1820 which was later claimed to have been stolen from George Williams Evans. He arrived back with his wife in May 1820 as a settler and was granted 800 acres at Pittwater near Hobart. He died there on 12 May 1826 and was buried at Sorrell.Charles Jeffreys (1782-1826) British Australia - Hobart Town in 1817. A Sketcher, author and naval officer, Charles Jeffreys entered the Royal Navy aged 111 and was commissioned Lieutenant in March 1805. He came to New South Wales in January 1814 as a Commander on the Brig ‘Kangaroo’ which was immediately commissioned to transport convicts from Port Jackson to Van Dieman’s Land. Governor Macquarie labelled him ‘a vain, conceited and ignorant young man’,. While in His Majesty’s Service, Jeffreys indulged in illicit rum smuggling, turning a blind eye to convict stowaways on board and accepting an escaped government debtor as a paying passenger. He drew a sketch of Hobart Town in 1817, the present work, and wrote a book ‘Geographical and Descriptive Delineations of the Island of Van Dieman’s Land’ published in London 1820 which was later claimed to have been stolen from George Williams Evans. He arrived back with his wife in May 1820 as a settler and was granted 800 acres at Pittwater near Hobart. He died there on 12 May 1826 and was buried at Sorrell.Charles Jeffreys (1782-1826) British Australia - Hobart Town in 1817. A Sketcher, author and naval officer, Charles Jeffreys entered the Royal Navy aged 111 and was commissioned Lieutenant in March 1805. He came to New South Wales in January 1814 as a Commander on the Brig ‘Kangaroo’ which was immediately commissioned to transport convicts from Port Jackson to Van Dieman’s Land. Governor Macquarie labelled him ‘a vain, conceited and ignorant young man’,. While in His Majesty’s Service, Jeffreys indulged in illicit rum smuggling, turning a blind eye to convict stowaways on board and accepting an escaped government debtor as a paying passenger. He drew a sketch of Hobart Town in 1817, the present work, and wrote a book ‘Geographical and Descriptive Delineations of the Island of Van Dieman’s Land’ published in London 1820 which was later claimed to have been stolen from George Williams Evans. He arrived back with his wife in May 1820 as a settler and was granted 800 acres at Pittwater near Hobart. He died there on 12 May 1826 and was buried at Sorrell.Charles Jeffreys (1782-1826) British Australia - Hobart Town in 1817. A Sketcher, author and naval officer, Charles Jeffreys entered the Royal Navy aged 111 and was commissioned Lieutenant in March 1805. He came to New South Wales in January 1814 as a Commander on the Brig ‘Kangaroo’ which was immediately commissioned to transport convicts from Port Jackson to Van Dieman’s Land. Governor Macquarie labelled him ‘a vain, conceited and ignorant young man’,. While in His Majesty’s Service, Jeffreys indulged in illicit rum smuggling, turning a blind eye to convict stowaways on board and accepting an escaped government debtor as a paying passenger. He drew a sketch of Hobart Town in 1817, the present work, and wrote a book ‘Geographical and Descriptive Delineations of the Island of Van Dieman’s Land’ published in London 1820 which was later claimed to have been stolen from George Williams Evans. He arrived back with his wife in May 1820 as a settler and was granted 800 acres at Pittwater near Hobart. He died there on 12 May 1826 and was buried at Sorrell.