Eden surveyed by Mr Thomas Townsend.
“His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct it to be notified, for general information, that a settlement at Twofold Bay will be opened to location in the commencement of the month of March, 1843, and that some town allotments, as well as grazing lands, will be sold as early in that month as circumstances will admit of. The sale will take place, in Sydney, in the usual manner; and further notice will be given as soon as the particulars are received from the Surveyor General”
Australasian Chronicle 10 Nov 1842
Benjamin Boyd commences operations at Boydtown assigning Oswald Brierly as manager.
Dec 7th: The Pathfinder Expedition – Oswald Brierly sets of on an expedition to the Monaro to investigate the prospect of a road between Twofold Bay and the Monaro.