From the Maitland Mercury report:
A book uncovering central Maitland’s first community of European descent is close to publication. The book provides an expose on the lives of a small but diverse society made up of convict settlers, placed by Governor Macquarie on farms along the banks of the Hunter River between Morpeth and close to Elgin Street. The book looks at how these people – known as the Wallis Plains Settlers – and their families once lived, how their histories were originally embedded in crime and the opportunities they took to reform their lives.
Full article by Emma Swain available at Maitland Mercury, 05 May, 2012
