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Cottrell's acquisition of this place of business came by virtue of an interesting legal agreement with Batman in
January 1839, for which the deed still exists, in which he undertook to pay Eliza Batman, John Batman's wife who was about to leave for England, 60 pounds a year for the rest of her life in exchange for a peppercorn rental on a building in William Street.
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did not allow them to keep this land acquired by "treaty" with the aborigines, and it is not known what happened to
Cottrell's claim or to his sheep. His share in the Association was sold to banker and fellow member
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in July 1838 for 411 pounds, which corresponded to one seventeenth of the value after expenses of the assessed value of the 10,416 acres (42 km²) which the
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