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	Captain '''George Edward Nicholas Weston''' was a former officer of the [[East India Company]] who arrived in [[Australia]] in 1825 and was granted land in the Weston Creek area in 1831, previously held by James Martin, who had built a house, grazed sheep and cattle and cleared and planted {{convert\|20\|acre\|m2}}. Technicalities hindered Martin's claim, and officials eventually preferred the wealthy, well-connected claim of Weston. Weston lived at Horsley, near [[Liverpool]] and was virtually an absent landlord, as the only interest he took in his property on the [[Molonglo River\|Molonglo]] River, was to take out a mortgage in February 1833, and sell it in August 1834 to [[Francis Mowatt (politician)\|Francis Mowatt]].<ref>Canberra Times, 27 May 1999; NCDC, 'Weston Creek-Canberra's New Home for 34,000 people'', Canberra 1970</ref>		Captain '''George Edward Nicholas Weston''' was a former officer of the [[East India Company]] who arrived in [[Australia]] in 1825 and was granted land in the Weston Creek area in 1831, previously held by James Martin, who had built a house, grazed sheep and cattle and cleared and planted {{convert\|20\|acre\|m2}}. Technicalities hindered Martin's claim, and officials eventually preferred the wealthy, well-connected claim of Weston. Weston lived at Horsley, near [[Liverpool]] and was virtually an absent landlord, as the only interest he took in his property on the [[Molonglo River\|Molonglo]] River, was to take out a mortgage in February 1833, and sell it in August 1834 to [[Francis Mowatt (politician)\|Francis Mowatt]].<ref>Canberra Times, 27 May 1999; NCDC, ''Weston Creek-Canberra's New Home for 34,000 people'', Canberra 1970</ref>
	The district of [[Weston Creek]] in the [[Australian Capital Territory]] is named after him.		The district of [[Weston Creek]] in the [[Australian Capital Territory]] is named after him.

	In 1831 he was granted 10 square kilometres of land in the [[Canberra]] district at a place described as ''Yarrow-lumla Plains.''<ref>'Exploring the ACT and Southeast New South Wales'', J. Kay McDonald, Kangaroo Press, Sydney, p49 1985 {{ISBN\|0-86417-049-1}}</ref>		In 1831 he was granted 10 square kilometres of land in the [[Canberra]] district at a place described as ''Yarrow-lumla Plains.''<ref>''Exploring the ACT and Southeast New South Wales'', J. Kay McDonald, Kangaroo Press, Sydney, p49 1985 {{ISBN\|0-86417-049-1}}</ref>

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Captain '''George Edward Nicholas Weston''' was a former officer of the [[East India Company]] who arrived in [[Australia]] in 1825 and was granted land in the Weston Creek area in 1831, previously held by James Martin, who had built a house, grazed sheep and cattle and cleared and planted {{convert|20|acre|m2}}. Technicalities hindered Martin's claim, and officials eventually preferred the wealthy, well-connected claim of Weston. Weston lived at Horsley, near [[Liverpool]] and was virtually an absent landlord, as the only interest he took in his property on the [[Molonglo River|Molonglo]] River, was to take out a mortgage in February 1833, and sell it in August 1834 to [[Francis Mowatt (politician)|Francis Mowatt]].<ref>Canberra Times, 27 May 1999; NCDC, 'Weston Creek-Canberra's New Home for 34,000 people'', Canberra 1970</ref>
The district of [[Weston Creek]] in the [[Australian Capital Territory]] is named after him.

In 1831 he was granted 10 square kilometres of land in the [[Canberra]] district at a place described as ''Yarrow-lumla Plains.''<ref>'Exploring the ACT and Southeast New South Wales'', J. Kay McDonald, Kangaroo Press, Sydney, p49 1985 {{ISBN|0-86417-049-1}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:People from the Australian Capital Territory]]
[[Category:History of Australia (1788–1850)]]
[[Category:Settlers of Australia]]
[[Category:British East India Company Army officers]]
[[Category:Year of death missing]]
[[Category:19th-century Australian people]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing]]

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