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to Lake Bathurst in October, 1820, where they joined 

 Governor Macquarie and journeyed to Lake George. He 

 married a niece of Dr. Oharles Throsby and sister of Charles 

 Throsby the ancester of the present Throsby families. 

 Later he secured several large areas of land to the south 

 of Wingello in the Parish of Bumballa, County of Camden. 

 He died on 13th March, 1852, aged 58, and was buried in 

 the Bong Bong Cemetery near Moss Vale. 



William Howe, j.p. (1777 — 1855). He was married on 

 21st September, 1802 at Oalversholm, Annandale, County 

 Dumfries, in the south of Scotland, and from 1810 to 1815 

 was an officer in the army operating in Europe during the 

 Napoleonic wars. He and his family arrived in Sydney, by 

 the ship "Atlas" on July 22, 1816, and later settled at 

 Glenlee between the modern towns of Campbelltown and 

 Camden, where he received a grant of 3,000 acres of land 

 on 13th January, 1818. On the recommendation of Com- 

 missioner J. T. Bigge, dated 10th November, 1819, he was 

 appointed a magistrate by Governor Macquarie. 



John Dunmore Lang wrote 1 : — "There is a large extent 

 ot cleared land on the Glenlee estate, the greater part of 

 which has been laid down with English grasses, the pad- 

 docks being separated from each other by hedges of quince 

 or lemon-tree. . . . Glenlee House — a handsome two- 

 story house, built partly of brick and partly of a drab- 

 coloured sandstone." This house is still standing (1921) 

 and is in excellent order. 



William Howe was a member of the Agricultural Society 

 of New South Wales, formed on July 5, 1822, and the butter 

 he made, in a dairy which is still in good order, was famous 



1 An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales, Second 

 Edition, 1837, Vol. n, 131. 



