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Peter MacIntyre (colonist)

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112:, and MacIntyre was placed in charge. Segenhoe initially consisted of 27 employees, flocks of Saxon and Merino sheep and valuable Shorthorn cattle. While MacIntyre was establishing Segenhoe, he also lost no time in furthering his own interests by requesting and receiving other grants of land in Hunter region for himself and his brothers. MacIntyre was granted 2000 acres of prime land along 198:
found refuge at MacIntyre's station at Keera. The settlers who perpetrated the massacre followed them there and killed approximately ten more. By 1839, Campbell had established the Byron Plains station on the MacIntyre River, which had been named after his employer. Campbell named the southern part
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Segenhoe became the largest estate in New South Wales, where up to 100 convicts were put to work under MacIntyre to turn it into a productive venture. At his own estate at Blairmore, MacIntyre also built up a large enterprise where by 1829 he had 44 convicts and 8 free servants labouring for him.
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By 1830, MacIntyre's own agricultural interests had become so profitable that he resigned from the managerial position at MacQueen's Segenhoe estate, where he was replaced by Hamilton Sempill. MacIntyre had a lavish 22 room mansion built for himself at Pitnacree in the town of
92:, filled them with servants, livestock, and supplies, and placed them under the control of MacInytre. The ships reached Sydney in April 1825, and MacIntyre, after inspecting the best lands available, chose a locale for the uptake of the massive grant on the banks of the 56:, in 1783 to Donald (Daniel) and Mary MacIntyre. He became a highly regarded agriculturalist and farm manager, winning many prizes for farming, and was employed to manager the estates of the aristocrat, 211:
The severe economic downturn in colonial Australia in the early 1840s took its toll on MacIntyre and he suffered badly from depression. He died in January 1842 at his Pitnacree estate.
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Aboriginal people were pushed out of their lands by the arrival of the Scottish and made raids on the crops grown by these colonisers. MacIntyre's brother, John, led a resultant
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evolved. Large numbers of Aboriginal people resisted the occupancy of their lands at Byron Plains by spearing the shepherds and taking the livestock belonging to MacIntyre.
120:, who wanted the land for himself. MacIntyre called his property Blairmore. He also secured land grants of similar size in the region for his brothers, John and 167:
from where he ran his affairs. He recruited Alexander Campbell, who had also left the employment of Segenhoe, to be the direct supervisor of his properties.
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MacIntyre soon found the need to have more land and decided to send Campbell out into the uncolonised lands to the north to acquire and stock large
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In 1824, MacIntyre was appointed as the chief agent for Thomas Potter Macqueen, an influential Anglo-Scottish
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but was forced to retreat when the Aborigines took up a high position and rolled rocks down upon them.
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organised an expedition of discovery into the uncolonised lands north of the
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MacQueen's land acquisition was named Segenhoe after his family's estate in
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on the initial stage of his expedition. In return, Cunningham named the
223:, Macintyre Brook and several Macintyre creeks are named after him. 80:, a free grant of 20,000 acres (8100 ha) in the colony of 374:. New South Wales, Australia. 21 December 1923. p. 2 24:(1783 – 13 January 1842), sometimes referred to as 346:. New South Wales, Australia. 14 October 1938. p. 6 402:. New South Wales, Australia. 7 October 1922. p. 2 371:
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser
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Index

New South Wales
Upper Hunter
New England
Perthshire
Scotland
Baron Gwydyr
Member of Parliament
Colonial Secretary
Earl Bathurst
New South Wales
Pages River
Scone
Bedfordshire
Dart Brook
Henry Dangar
Donald MacIntyre
Geawegal
Wonnarua
punitive expedition
Allan Cunningham
Liverpool Plains
Liverpool Range
Macintyre River
East Maitland
squatting leaseholds
Breeza
Keera
Guyra
Myall Creek massacre
Inverell

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