#OnThisDay 14 February 1788 Lieutenant Philip Gidley King left Sydney to establish a settlement on Norfolk Island. With him were 15 convicts and seven free men. They arrived on 6 March 1788 and began to prepare the Island for more settlement and commercial development.
Source: Shaw, A.G.L. (1967). King, Phillip Gidley (1758-1808). Australian Dictionary of Biography, volume 2
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