The Voyage
of
Governor Phillip
to
Botany Bay
with an
Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jacksonand Norfolk Island;
compiled from Authentic Papers,
which have been obtained from the several Departments
to which are added
the Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball and Capt.Marshall
with an Account of their New Discoveries,
embellished with fifty five Copper Plates,
the Maps and Charts taken from Actual Surveys,
and the plans and views drawn on the spot,
by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley,Capt. Marshall, etc.
London
Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly
1789
Arthur Phillip Esq.
Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over
the Territory of New South Wales
TO THE MOST NOBLE
THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY,
LORD CHAMBERLAIN OF HIS MAJESTY'S HOUSEHOLD, ETC., ETC.
THIS VOLUME,
CONTAINING ALL THAT IS YET KNOWN OF THE
SETTLEMENT AT SYDNEY COVE,
IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY
HIS LORDSHIP'S
MUCH OBLIGED, AND
MOST FAITHFUL
HUMBLE SERVANT,
JOHN STOCKDALE.
NOVEMBER 25, 1789.
ANECDOTES OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP.
Arthur Phillip is one of those officers, who, like Drake,Dampier, and Cook, has raised himself by his merit and hisservices, to distinction and command. His father was JacobPhillip, a native of Frankfort, in Germany, who having settled inEngland, maintained his family and educated his son by teachingthe languages. His mother was Elizabeth Breach, who married forher first husband, Captain Herbert of the navy, a kinsman of LordPembroke. Of her marriage with Jacob Phillip, was her son,Arthur, born in the parish of Allhallows, Bread-street, withinthe city of London, on the 11th of October, 1738.
Being designed for a seafaring life, he was very properly sentto the school of Greenwich, where he received an educationsuitable to his early propensities. At the age of sixteen, hebegan his maritime career, under the deceased Captain MichaelEveret of the navy, at the commencement of hostilities, in 1755:and at the same time that he learned the rudiments of hisprofession under that able officer, he partook with him in theearly misfortunes, and subsequent glories of the seven years war.Whatever opulence Phillip acquired from the capture of theHavannah, certain it is, that, at the age of twenty-three, hethere was made a Lieutenant into the Stirling-castle, on the 7thof June, 1761, by Sir George Pococke, an excellent judge of navalaccomplishments.
But of nautical exploits, however they may raise marineofficers, there must be an end. Peace, with its blessings, wasrestored in 1763. And Phillip now found leisure to marry; and tosettle at Lyndhurst, in the New Forest, where he amused himselfwith farming, and like other country gentlemen, dischargedassiduously those provincial offices, which, however unimportant,occupy respectably the owners of