| Label | Date | Details |
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| Article | 21 May 1810 | Simon is mentioned in the Hassall's Day Sales Book as having received Mrs Marsden's order for £5-6-0 on 21st May 1810.4 |
| Article | 14 July 1810 | Simon was included in a group of 38 persons who were invited by the Commissary's Office on 14th July 1810, that if they "make application at this office on Monday, 16th July, instant, they will receive an order for such quantities of cloth as they may be entitled to on account of wool delivered at the Factory at Parramatta."5 |
| Article | 1812 | Simon made a petition in 1812 to Governor Macquarie for a mitigation of his sentence. He noted his arrival in the colony "under the dreadful sentence of Life" and that he had "served the Government as a stockkeeper to this period, now thirteen years". Lachlan Macquaries response to this petition was to note on the 25th May of that year that "Moulds will receive an Emancipation in January 1813, in case he continues to conduct himself properly.
The conditional pardon was duly granted on 31st January 1813 and delivered on 22nd February 1813.6 |
| Article | 12 May 1820 | On 12 May 1820 Simon petitioned Governor Macquarie for a land grant. He stated that he was a free man with a wife and four children and residing on purchased land at Toongabbee, that he was following agricultural pursuits, had thirteen head of horned cattle and sixty sheep.
Simon received a land grant of fifty acres in what was then known as the District of Bathurst.7 |
| Article | 1821 | In 1821 Simon was included in a list, in the J T Bigge's Report, of those who resided on land at Parramatta. This land was 30 acres which he had purchased.1 |
| Article | 5 April 1821 | On 5 April 1821 Simon was granted the land for which he petitioned the previous year. The land was on the west side of what is now called Old Windsor Road and is within the current portion 60, Parish Gidley, County Cumberland. The land was later re-acquired by the Government under its Closer Settlement promotion scheme. The description of the grant was - Bounded on the South side by Gray and Bland farms bearing West 41 chains 40 links on the West by by Doyles farm bearing North 15 chains 20 links on the North by an East line to the Seven Hills road and on the North East by that road.1 |
| Article | 13 November 1821 | On 13 November 1821 Simon was amongst a group ordered to remove the whole of their flocks and herds from Government land at Toongabbee, as the land was required for Government use.8 |
| Article | February 1822 | Simon made a petition to Governor Brisbane in February 1822 for another land grant.
In his petition he referred to the previous 50 acre grant, seven acres of which had been felled, cleared and in cultivation with a dwelling house erected thereon. He indicated that he was following agricultural pursuits and had a wife and four children dependent on him. In the petition he asked that himself, wife, family and a government man be victualled on His Majesty's stores.9 |
| Article | 29 November 1822 | On 29 November 1822 Simon was issued a certificate by the Commissariat Office at Parramatta that he had not received an indulgence as a settler from that station from 5th April 1821 to date.10 |
| Article | 30 June 1823 | Land Grant on 30 June 1823 - portion 104, Parish South Colah, County Cumberland.
Some people contend that this grant was to Simon (the Younger), but the will of Simon (the Younger) clearly states that the land grant of 30th June 1823 had been made to his father.1 |
| Will | 5 September 1839 | Simon Moulds signed his willl on 5 September 1839 in the presence of Lewis H Campbell, Joseph Huff and Joseph Leahy.1 |
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