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SIR JOSEPH BANKS. 
Joseph Banks introduced him to the colony. He was born 11th June, 
1774, and was a lessee of land on the Cadogan Estate, Chelsea, then 
a suburb of London, and was given charge of a consignment of 
useful plants per the “ Porpoise.” (See p. 56.) 
On his arrival in Sydney, in the year 1800, he soon went to 
Parramatta, and Governor King having given him a grant of land 
at Baulkham Hills, he planted the first orange trees there, being three 
he had received from Colonel Paterson. 
The “ Historical Records” contain some letters* * * § referring to him. 
He was greatly attached to Sir Joseph, with whom he corresponded, e.g , — 
Sydney, 10th March, 1804f, he gives an account of the Toongabbie 
rebellion of the convicts, and his letter contains no references to 
horticultural or botanical matters. 
Suttor writes to Bligh, 1st January, 1809 1 recounting the troubles 
he underwent, even to imprisonment in Sydney Gaol, because he 
remained loyal to Bligh at the time of the latter’s supersession. He 
writes in a similar loyal strain, 10th February, 1809.§ 
Suttor went home with Caleyin the “Hindostan,” and gave e\ddence 
on behalf of Bligh. He left Sydney, 12th May, 1810, and returned to 
Sydney, 12th May, 1812. 
Caley took an Australian aborigine, “ Moonate ” or “ Dan,” to 
England, for which Banks censured him. Suttor brought back the 
man to the colony, when he returned after his absence in England as 
a witness in the trial of Lieut. -Colonel Johnston, in 1810, for the part 
he took in the deposition of Governor Bligh. 
On his return to Sydney he was appointed Superintendent of the 
Lunatic Asylum at Castle Hill, a post formerly occupied by the Revd. 
Samuel Mar.sden. He resigned after three years. 
After the discovery of the passage over the Blue Mountains, Suttor 
was anxious to try his fortune in the Bathurst district, but Governor 
Macquarie would not grant the necessary permit. Governor Brisbane, 
in 1822, gave permission, and Suttor, with his sheep and cattle, settled 
near Bathurst and prospered greatly. On 14th March, 1839, he 
left Sydney in the “ Laura,” and revisited Europe, and when in 
France he had the misfortune to lose his wife, who was buried at 
Rouen. He left Gravesend on 10th July, 1845, in the “ Thomas 
Lowry,” arriving in Sydney, 5th November. 
• Vol. iii, 333, 382, 411. 
t Hist. Rec., V, 351. 
t /(>., vii, 1. 
§ Ib.. 21. 
