Captain George Edward Nicholas Weston was a former officer of the

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who arrived in

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in 1825 and was granted land in the Weston Creek area in 1831, previously held by James Martin, who had built a house, grazed sheep and cattle and cleared and planted . Technicalities hindered Martin's claim, and officials eventually preferred the wealthy, well-connected claim of Weston. Weston lived at Horsley, near

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and was virtually an absent landlord, as the only interest he took in his property on the Molonglo River, was to take out a mortgage in February 1833, and sell it in August 1834 to

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. The district of

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in the

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is named after him. In 1831 he was granted 10 square kilometres of land in the

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district at a place described as ''Yarrow-lumla Plains.'''Exploring the ACT and Southeast New South Wales'', J. Kay McDonald, Kangaroo Press, Sydney, p49 1985

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Weston, Edward People from the Australian Capital Territory History of Australia (1788–1850) Settlers of Australia British East India Company Army officers Year of death missing 19th-century Australian people Year of birth missing