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This chapter provides the historical context and background to, as well as examining the history and archaeology of, two unsuccessful attempts to import cargoes of goods from Great Britain to the Swan River Colony. The first (James Matthews) occurred in 1841, just twelve years after British settlement and the second (Eglinton) was some eleven years later in 1852.
The expense of providing for seven servants in addition to the wants of ourselves and little ones is a very serious matter, wheat being at present £1 per bushel and 2/6 for grinding and every other article of food in the same dear ration... and we are as yet almost without the common necessaries of life.
(Eliza Brown [letter from Grassdale, WA dated 3 July 1841] quoted in Webby 1989: 115)
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Staniforth, M. (2003). The Swan River Colony and the Wrecks of James Matthews (1841) and Eglinton (1852). In: Material Culture and Consumer Society. The Plenum Series in Underwater Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0211-1_7
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