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Crown Plans revisited

Learn how you can start searching for, accessing, and understanding Crown plans and related records in the State Archives Collection

Surveyor General guide

These cartographic records provide detailed descriptions of the nature, agricultural potential & occupancy of land in the colony

Surveyors' field books 1794-1860

The index records surveyor's name, date and locality covered and gives book and citation numbers

Surveyors’ letters 1822-1855

These are letters received from surveyors (1822-1855), and mostly relate to matters such as the survey description of farms, reserves, churches, schools, rivers and mountain ranges, or forwarding tracings and plans of these after survey