Biographical entry: Watson, R. McGregor
Summary
Diary, ca.1873. Typescript, quarto, photocopy, pp.28. Memoirs in journal form, from September 1873, exploration and settlement of the Gulf of Carpentaria region, particularly Gregory Downs Station, south of Burketown, which was originally taken up by J.G. Macdonald but abandoned in the late 1860s; the run was taken up a second time by the Watson brothers in 1873. The original journal held by Mr L.K. Blackmore, Chester, Clandulla, New South Wales. NQ.919.43731 WAT