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While by no means complete, the following listing gives details of surviving examples of the wide variety of private prommissory notes which were issued in the first few decades after the establishment of the colony of New South Wales. Many notes of this type were used as circulating mediums of exchange. For currency notes (private prommissory notes printed with a fixed value), see the separate entries listed by issuer.
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Issuer: James M Carr.
Recipient: Martin Mason.
Date: November 2nd, 1807.
Amount: £2/2/-
This note is interesting for the fact that it was pre-printed and supplied by the recipient. Martin Mason was one of Australia's first private doctors. He arrived in Sydney as surgeon aboard the Britannia in 1798. A close associate of Bligh, he was briefly imprisoned during the Rum Rebellion. |
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Issuer: George Hunt.
Recipient: George Stokell.
Date: 23rd May, 1830.
Amount: £80/1/-
This bill of hand is a fore-runner of today's cheques. George Hunt has ordered that George Stokell be paid, at a future date, via a third party - the Derwent Bank - where he must have held an account. George Stokell, who has confirmed his acceptance on the note, separately issued his own currency notes. |
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Issuer: Police Fund, Van Diemen's Land.
Recipient: Ben Jones.
Date: April 21, 1821.
Amount: £5/5/-
A promissory note issued on a pre-printed form by the Treasurer of the Police Fund at Government House, Hobart Town.
Value: Fair Condition - $4,000 (2000) |
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Issuer: Michael Robinson.
Recipient: James Larra.
Date: September 28, 1803.
Amount: £1/4/6
A promissory note issued on a pre-printed form. Robinson was transported for life on a charge of extortion. He later became well known as a poet and an early shareholder in the Bank of New South Wales. Larra, transported for life in 1787 for stealing a tankard, later became a land owner on the Parramatta River. |
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Issuer: Tasmanian Bank.
Recipient: Specimen.
Date: 182-.
Amount: -
This promissory note, issued by the Tasmanian Bank, was called a Post Bill. Apart from the nominated delay for negotiation, the bill circulated in a manner similar to prommissory notes and private banknotes of the period (the bank operated for only 3 years between 1826 and 1829). |
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