Patrick Leslie was born on 25.9.1815 at Warthill, Aberdeenshire, - TopicsExpress



          

Patrick Leslie was born on 25.9.1815 at Warthill, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He arrivined in Sydney in May 1835. By 1836 he was managing his uncle’s property at Collaroi in the Cassilis district of New South Wales, then rented Dunheved farm at Penrith for his own use. When his brothers Walter and George arrived in the colony, Patrick decided to look for new land to the north. In 1840 he and a large party set out to look at the Clarence River District, but he decided to go on to look at the Darling Downs. Leslie took one convict, Peter Murphy, with him and traversed the southern Downs before deciding on the area that was to become Toolburra and Canning Downs as his first run. Thus is 1840 the Leslies became the first settlers on the Darling Downs. Later in 1840 Patrick Leslie returned to Sydney and married Catherine Macarthur.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 03:20:25 +0000

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