Lots of numbers
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xenithLots of number from Hobart Town Almanack, 1829 put together so I can find them, and behind cuts because I have used tables which might screw up Friends page.
Population
as of 1 January 1829
Blacks
For the previous year
Weekly Provisions for a Servant
Per annum
That being what an employer is expected to provide for an assigned servant. Not sure what I wrote for the entries with ?, but I typed the best fit.
I've scribbled a note on the same page that, if I can translate it, says:
Prisoners can have memorials & petitions prepared at the C.S. (Colonial Secretary's, I assume) Office at a cost of 14 d per page. Unless they are in the penitentiary or a chain gang, then they may have them prepared at the Superintendent's Office free of charge. (That includes requests of indulgences such as ticket of leave, permission to marry, applications for families to join them etc.)
Established Rates of Labourer's Wages
Population
as of 1 January 1829
| Hobart Town | 5700 |
| Launceston | 1000 |
| Settled districts & townships | 13,000 |
| Circular Head | 3000 |
| TOTAL | 20,000 |
| Children under 10 years | 3200 |
| Males | 12,000 |
| Females | 48000 |
Blacks
| Male | 500 |
| Female | 70 |
| Children | 30 |
For the previous year
| Marriages | 180 |
| Deaths | 300 |
| Births | 650 |
| Arrived | 1500 |
| At school | 1200 |
| Classically educated | 120 |
| Male | Female |
| 10.5 lbs of meat | 5.5 lbs meat |
| 10.5 lbs of flour | 8.5 lbs of flours |
| 7 oz of sugar | 0.5 lb sugar |
| 3.5 oz soap | 2 oz soap |
| 2 oz salt | 1.5 oz salt |
| tea & tobacco discretionary | 2 oz tea |
Per annum
| Male | Female |
| 2 suits of slop clothing | 1 cotton gown |
| 3 pairs of stock-keepers boots | 2 beg? gowns |
| 4 shirts | 3 shifs (sic) |
| cap or hat | 2 flannel petticoats |
| bed | 2 stuff? petticoats |
| 2 blankets | 3 pair shoes |
| rug | 3 calico caps |
| 3 pair stockings | |
| 2 neckerchiefs | |
| 3 check aprons | |
| bonnet | |
| (total of all not exceeding £27) | |
| bed, as for men |
That being what an employer is expected to provide for an assigned servant. Not sure what I wrote for the entries with ?, but I typed the best fit.
I've scribbled a note on the same page that, if I can translate it, says:
Prisoners can have memorials & petitions prepared at the C.S. (Colonial Secretary's, I assume) Office at a cost of 14 d per page. Unless they are in the penitentiary or a chain gang, then they may have them prepared at the Superintendent's Office free of charge. (That includes requests of indulgences such as ticket of leave, permission to marry, applications for families to join them etc.)
| £ s d | ||
| Falling forest timber | 0 8 0 | per acre |
| Burning off forest timber | 1 0 0 | per acre |
| Rooting out & burning stumps | 1 10 0 | per acre |
| Falling timber on brush ground | 0 12 0 | per acre |
| Burning off on brush ground | 1 17 6 | per acre |
| Rooting out & burning stumps on bush ground | 1 17 6 | per acre |
| Breaking up new ground | 1 0 0 | per acre |
| Burning off stubble or corn ground | 0 10 0 | per acre |
| Chipping in wheat | 0 6 0 | per acre |
| Reaping | 0 10 0 | per acre |
| Threshing & cleaning wheat | 0 0 8 | per bushel |
| Holing & planting corn | 0 5 0 | per acre |
| Pulling & husking corn | 0 0 4 | per bushel |
| Splitting pales, 6' long | 0 3 0 | per 100 |
| Splitting pales, 5' long | 0 2 6 | per 100 |
| Shingle splitting | 0 7 6 | per 1000 |
| Preparing & putting up morticed railing 5 bars with 2 panels to a rod posts sunk 2 feet into the ground | 0 3 0 | |
| 4 bars | 0 2 6 | |
| 3 bars | 0 2 0 | |
| 2 bars | 0 1 9 |
