Depasturing Licenses Index 1837-1851

This index will be of interest to those researching the people who leased land beyond the Nineteen Counties for the periods 1837-46 and 1851. There was some unauthorised occupation of Crown land from the earliest days of the colony. Governor Darling created an area known as the ‘limits of location’ — creating two areas within the colony by Government order on 5 September 1826. Settlers were only allowed to take up land within the ‘limits’. A further Government order on 14 October 1829 increased this area of approved settlement to include an area called the Nineteen Counties.