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(Berry is now denominated " captain ") navigated her 

 to Sydney under jury masts. He next took her to New 

 Zealand, where she had to be completely re-sheathed. 

 While he was waiting, he nobly rescued (in 1810) the 

 survivors of the murdered crew of the Boyd, who had 

 been killed in revenge by the Maoris. These he brought 

 back to Austraha and ultimately settled in Shoalhaven. 

 For there, his unfortunate ship having foundered, he 

 himself settled. Coasting up and down in another 

 Royal George than the man-of-war that went dowTi in 

 harbour, he discovered the Shoalhaven River and the 

 large extent of pastoral or arable land that lay on 

 each side of the well-named stream. Two years later 

 (in 1822) he entered Crookhaven River adjacent, and 

 there found a haven whence he could communicate 

 with Sydney at a time when there were no other possible 

 means of communication. There, or not too far from 

 it, he soHdly founded the settlement that has never 

 since ceased to grow. He took into partnership Edward 

 Wollstonecraft, a cousm of Mary Wollstonecraft, the 

 celebrated wife of Wilham Godwin and the mother of 

 Mary Shelley. The two — Berry and Wollstonecraft — 

 were the meritorious recipients of the free grants of 

 land that were customary in those happy days. The 

 much-mahgned Governor Macquarie never did a better 

 thing for the Colony than when he presented the two 

 pioneers with 4,000 acres, of which 3,500 acres were in 

 the district Berry had found, while Wollstonecraft 

 reserved the remaining 500 acres in the noAv populous 

 " North Shore " of Sydney, where one of the suburbs per- 

 petuates the name of the authoress of the Rights of Women. 

 The 3,500 acres at Shoalhaven were only the nucleus 

 of the great Berry Estate, which in 1889 had expanded 

 to over 60,000 acres. An additional tract of 10,000 

 acres was purchased from the Government for a sum 

 of £16,000 or its equivalent. Berry's brothers, John, 

 William, and David, with their two sisters, Janet and 

 Nancy, soon arrived to join their enterprising brother. 

 Doubtless, they too received the usual free grants of 



