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About Richard Parsons
Richard Parsons, a sawyer and convict of the colony of New South Wales, was one of four free or ticket-of-leave men and the half proprietor of a boat who set off on a timber getting mission from Sydney bound for Illawarra in 1823. The men were caught in a severe storm and driven north 728 km seeing their boat smashed at the northern end of Moreton Island off the coast of Brisbane. He was probably the first Euoropean to both live in the area and discover the Brisbane River.
Everything about Richard Parsons →- Occupation
- explorer, lumberjack
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Born
- 1786
- Died
- 1863