This document contains an Order issued by Governor Macquarie reporting a 'tour' of the region west of the Blue Mountains and the determination of a site for the 'erection of a town' named Bathurst. 

'Government and General Orders', The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (10 June 1815) 1

The establishment of the colonial settlement of Bathurst on Wiradjuri country in 1815 and the expansion of the colony over the Bathurst Plains led to war between the Wiradjuri people and the colonisers in the 1820s. Bathurst and the neighbouring settlements were administered by Commandants, who tried various and unsuccessful...

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'Government and General Orders', The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (10 June 1815) 1

Central Western NSW Conflict