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George Thomas Lloyd, brother of Horatio Lloyd and Uncle of Arthur Lloyd, was born in 1809. When he was just ten years old he sailed with his uncle Charles Jeffreys to Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania, on the ship the Saracen on the 25th of December 1819. They arrived in Hobart Town on the 24th of April 1820.
With his uncle he first commenced life in Tasmania on an estate 1300 acres in extent on the banks of Lake Pittwater, but the success they obtained in farming was far from being what they had been led to anticipate - and as for wool, up to the year 1823, such little value was placed upon it that sheep-farming was a profitless occupation.
George Thomas Lloyd's Obituary - Geelong Advertiser, March 23rd 1871. ...In 1830 Mr Lloyd formed one of the band of colonists who formed a cordon across Tasmania with the object of driving the natives, who had been very troublesome, on to Tasman's Peninsular. This scheme, which originated with Col. Arthur, who was then Governor of the island, signally failed. After an expenditure of £36,000, the "Black Line," as it was called by some, and by others the "Black Campaign," which is so humorously described by Mr Lloyd in his book, resulted in the capture of two blackfellows. In this campaign he had the command of fourteen men, who captured one native, when they afterwards, to Mr Lloyd's chagrin, allowed to escape.
http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Ancestry/GeorgeThomasLloydObit.htm
After many years living in Tasmania and Australia George wrote a book about the voyage and his experiences there called Thirty-Three Years in Tasmania and Victoria.
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