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This article is about the Australian farmer. For the high school, see James Ruse Agricultural High School. Gesta non Verba (Actions not Words) James Ruse Agricultural High School is an agricultural and selective co-educational public high school in Carlingford, New South Wales in Australia. ...
James Ruse (1759-1837), pioneer of agriculture in Australia, was born on a farm in Cornwall. In 1782 he was tried at Bodmin Assizes and sentenced to death for "burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Thomas Olive and stealing thereout 2 silver watches, value 5 pounds." He was reprieved and sentenced to transportation for seven years. He was sent on the Scarborough, one of the First Fleet, and arrived in New South Wales in January 1788. 1759 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
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Motto: Onen hag oll (Cornish: One and all) Geography Status Ceremonial and (smaller) Non-metropolitan county Region South West England Population - Total (2004 est. ...
1782 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Map sources for Bodmin at grid reference SX074667 The town of Bodmin lies in the centre of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, along the western edge of Bodmin Moor. ...
Scarborough was a First Fleet transport ship of 418 tons, built at Scarborough in 1782. ...
The First Fleet is the name given to the group of people and ships who sailed from the United Kingdom in May 1787 to establish the first European colony in New South Wales. ...
Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ...
As a convict Like the other First Fleet convicts, Ruse would have worked at first under the direction of Governor Arthur Phillip and his subordinates in establishing the rudiments of a new colony at Sydney Cove. But as the supplies the First Fleet had brought with them dwindled, it became vital that the colony learn to grow its own food. In November 1788 Phillip selected Ruse to go to Parramatta, then called Rose Hill, west of Sydney Town, and try his hand at farming. Admiral Arthur Phillip (1786 portrait by Francis Wheatley, National Portrait Gallery, London) Admiral Arthur Phillip (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a British naval officer, governor of the first European settlement in Australia and founder of the city of Sydney. ...
Sydney Cove is a small bay on the southern shore of Port Jackson (commonly but incorrectly called Sydney Harbour), on the coast of the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...
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Parramatta is a city, suburb and Local Government Area in Sydney, Australia, 25 kilometres west of the central business district (CBD) in Western Sydney. ...
As a pioneering farmer Phillip allocated Ruse one and a half acres (6,000 m²) of already cleared ground and assisted in clearing a further five acres (20,000 m²). He was to be given two sows and six hens and was to be fed and clothed from the public store for 15 months. In return, if he was successful, he was to be granted 30 acres (120,000 m²).
After 15 months Ruse announced that he and his wife Elizabeth (he married her in 1790) were now self-sufficient in food, and their farm formed the nucleus of a small community of farmers who, while technically still convicts, enjoyed considerable freedom and later had other convicts assigned to work for them. After Ruse's sentence expired in 1792, the title of his land was deeded to him, the first land grant in the colony. 1790 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
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In 1794 Ruse moved further out, to the Hawkesbury River area, and became a fairly successful farmer. He and Elizabeth raised three children. Later, however, he was wiped out by flooding (always the risk of farming in the Hawkesbury) and had to find work as a seaman. He was heavily in debt and only the hard work of his wife saved him from bankruptcy. From 1828 he was employed as an overseer by a landowner at Minto, south of Sydney. He died at Campbelltown in September 1837. 1794 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
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Minto is a suburb to the south of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...
Campbelltown is a suburb in the City of Campbelltown, in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, located about 45 km south west of the Sydney central business district. ...
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In memory of James Ruse Ruse's gravestone, which he carved himself, reads: "Sacred to the memory of James Ruse who departed this life sep 5 in the year of Houre Lord 1837. Natef of Cornwell and arrived in this coleney by the Forst Fleet, aged 77.
My mother reread me tenderley
With me she took much paines
And when I arrived in this coelney I sowd the forst grains
And now with my heavenly father I hope for ever to remain." A replica of his tombstone stands in the front garden of Barrengarry House, the administration block at James Ruse Agricultural High School. The memory of James Ruse is perpetuated in the naming of key locations in Sydney, including James Ruse Agricultural High School, in Carlingford; James Ruse Drive, running from Silverwater to Northmead, near Parramatta; and Ruse, a suburb in southwest Sydney. Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and with a population of over four million people is the most populous city in Australia. ...
Gesta non Verba (Actions not Words) James Ruse Agricultural High School is an agricultural and selective co-educational public high school in Carlingford, New South Wales in Australia. ...
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Ruse is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...
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