William Blue (c. 1767 – 7 May 1834) was an Australian convict who, after completing his sentence, became a boatman providing one of the first services to take people across Sydney Harbour. He was also made a water bailiff and watched boat traffic on …

William (Billy) Blue (c.1767?-1834), convict, settler and ferryman, was born possibly in Jamaica, New York City. As he later claimed to have served with the British army in the American war of independence, he may have been a freed African-American slave from colonial New York.

2024年6月20日 · The late Mr. William Blue, better known as 'Billy Blue,' was a well-known character about Sydney in the early days, and terminated a lengthy career as verger to St. Phillp's Church. For some reason he received a free grant of 80 acres of land on the North Shore, ever since known as 'Blue's Point,' a name likely to be perpetuated in colonial ...

Two of his neighbours, Edward Wollstonecraft and William Gore, who were interested in both his land and his harbour trade, went to court to try and get Blue, an ‘untrustworthy person’ who exposed them to ‘armed, dangerous and suspicious individuals who constantly infest and perambulate in the surrounding forest’, removed.

2017年8月29日 · William Blue was a very old man when, in 1834, he became the subject of two portraits. By then he had been an inhabitant of the remote penal colony of New South Wales (on the east coast of present-day Australia) for three decades.

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110469278/william-blue: accessed ), memorial page for William Blue (18 Jul 1880–16 Aug 1971), Find a Grave …

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William Blue: Born: c. 1767 United States of America. Died: 7 May, 1834 (aged ~ 67) North Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Cultural Heritage: African; West Indian; Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity. Crime: theft Sentence: 7 years.

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