MS 195
National Library of Australia
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Created: June 1985
Collection Summary
- Creator
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Ellis Bent and Jeffery Hart Bent
- Title
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Papers of Ellis Bent and Jeffery Hart Bent
- Date Range
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1802-1841
- Collection Number
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MS 195
- Extent
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0.15 metres (1 box + 2 folio items + 3 elephant folios)
- Language of Materials
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English
- Repository
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National Library of Australia
Introduction
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn4200536) for the access conditions.
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Ellis Bent and Jeffery Hart Bent, National Library of Australia, MS 195, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Item Descriptions
"Journal of a Voyage performed on board the Ship 'Broxbornebury', Captain Thomas Pitcher, from England to New South Wales", by J.H. Bent, Commenced, 22 February, 1814 (Item 1)
"Journal of a Voyage from England to the Cape of Good Hope, being part of a Voyage to New South Wales," by Ellis Bent, Esq. Commenced, 19 May, 1809 (Item 2)
"Letters by Ellis Bent": Letterbook by Ellis Bent, to his mother and J.H. Bent, 9 May, 1809-1 December, 1811 (Item 3)
Letters patent appointing Jeffery Hart Bent, Esq., to be Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court in the Settlement of British Guiana, 7 July 1841 (Item 4)
Commission appointing Ellis Bent, Esquire, Deputy Judge Advocate in the Settlement in New South Wales, 1 January, 1809 (Item 5)
Sermon on the death of Ellis Bent, preached at St. John's by the Reverend Samuel Marsden. Original, 19 November, 1815 (Item 6)
As Above. Photostat positive and photostat negative. (Item 6a-6b)
Paper commencing "Sacred to the memory of Ellis Bent, Esq., A.M., of Peter House in the University of Cambridge, Judge Advocate and Judge of the Vice Admiralty in this Colony..." (Item 7)
A.L.S. to Jeffery Hart Bent, Esq., from the members of Freemasons' Lodge 227, Sydney, New South Wales, 12 May, 1817 (Item 8)
Document appointing Jeffery Hart Bent, Chief Justice of British Guiana, 16 November, 1838 (Item 9)
Letters patent appointing Ellis Bent, Esq., Commissary in the Vice Admiralty Court of New South Wales, 13 December, 1810 (Item 10)
Negative photocopy of letter to J.H. Bent, 9 March 1810, taken from letterbook by Ellis Bent. 1 Negative, and 1 positive photocopy of letter to J.H. Bent, 20 August, 1809, taken from letterbook by Ellis Bent. (Item 11)
Certificate that T.A. Bent visited the Masonic Lodge, January, 1817 (Item 12)
Grant of Annuity of $300, 5 October, 1802 (Item 13)
Royal Arch certificate, 5 February, 1817 (Item 14)