History_EarlyExplorers

=__John Batman__= John Batman was born on the 21st of January 1801. William and Mary Batman (John Batman's parents) had moved to Sydney on the 2nd of June 1797 on the ship Ganges. John and his four brothers and Maria his sister were brought up in Parramatta and were baptised as Anglican-Methodists. John was the third child born and was the second oldest son. He was apprenticed to a Blacksmith who later was executed for burglary. John Batman was qualified as a jack-of-all-trades for the next five years. He moved out of his parents home seeming physically and mentally fit.He was probably educated at John Tull's Elementary School. On December 1821 John and his younger brother, Henry, moved to Van Diemen's Land. Henry Batman became a wheelwright near Launceston while John became a grazier. On March 1828 John Batman married an Eliza Thompson who had been convicted for passing a counterfeit bank note and had also encountered John Batman while being an absconder on his land. John Batman was recognised by many people above his social standing and had helped pursue many bushrangers including Matthew Brady. He also was able to concolidate the Tasmanian Aboriginal and was said to be one of a few people who treated the Tasmanian Aboriginal with kindness. By 1835 Kingston had a overall land mass of 7000 acres and had enough buildings, people and animals but happened to be too rugged. John Batman also created the Port Phillip association which left for the future Melbourne to sign a treaty with the local natives. Colonists would seize land if it was seen to On June the 13th 1835 Batman and his party of 14 came back to Van Diemens Land holding 600,000 acres. ==__John Pascoe Fawkner__== John Pascoe Fawkner was born on October the 20th 1792 at Cripplegate in London. John Fawkner moved to the newly built settlement in Bass Strait with his younger sister, Elizabeth, and his mother, Hannah nee Pascoe, to follow their father, John Fawkner Snr who had been sent their for fourteen years hard labour for recieving stolen goods. The Fawkner family suffered many hardships in Sullivans Cove, like lack of food and scurvy which caused John Fawkner Jnr to lose the ability of his right leg for few months. By 1806 the family held a 50 acre grant of land 11 km from Hobart Town. John lived as the shepherd boy in a bad hut while his sister took care of their fathers house in Hobart Town. In August 1806 Hannah Fawkner went to claim a legacy in England and only returned to Hobart by June 1809. The family went on to prosper for some time. Before the year 1814 John had taken over the home and shop of his father and he became a baker. Fawkner was said to have been helping some associates of his (which happened to be convicts) in escaping to South America by giving them a ship and the tools to fix it and also asked a Blacksmith to craft the nails and various metalwork with which to do so. Fawkner was tried by three different magistrates and was sentenced to 500 lashes and three years worth of labour. Fawkner then was sent to Newcastle for robbery. Once freed Fawkner moved back to Hobart and became a baker again. He also started selling alcohol without a license to do so and carried firewood and timber. He was said to make a 1000 pounds in within 17 months of moving back to Tasmania. In 1817 John Fawkner entered another period of financial difficulty which caused him to move to Launceston up north. In 1819 John Fawkner Snr was sentenced to 200 lashes and three years back at Newcastle for misusing the Crowns funds with four others which also included his son. In the company of Eliza Cobb John moved to Launceston to begin working as a builder and a sawyer. John Pascoe Fawkner married Eliza Cobb on the 5th of December 1822. Eliza Cobb had been moved to Launceston with a convict ship at the age of 17 for stealing a baby in the year 1818. In 1824 John Fawkner built a large 13 room house that was meant to be a hotel and had became a minor bush lawyer and a editor for the Launceston advertiser. John Fawkner acquired a 55 ton ship and reenamed it the Enterprise which had to finish a few voyages before it was home at port. John Fawkner was forbidden from leaving the colony for 2 months for assaulting a William Bransgrove. On the 17th of July the Enterprise left for George Town after docking at Launceston wharf for 4 days and was bordered by the Sherriff's representatives who held a restraining order for John Fawkner because of debt which had to be payed in full or he would not be admitted leave from George Town. While still within sight of George town John Fawkner told John Lancey about the reason he was sought after by the police and was then told to go back to George town by John Lancey. A camp was made were the Yarra River flowed over a low rock on the 20th of August 1835 and there the decision was made to share all the land in the most satisfactory manner (said by John Lancey) with the entire party. Fawkner landed at Hobsons Bay on October 1835 and within 4 years he had made a fortune worth 20,000 pounds.