page_title: Nineteen Counties
section_title: List
hierarchical_section_title: Nineteen Counties / List
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Southeastern Australia showing explorers routes for the period 1817-1830 and the nineteen counties in New South Wales. Relief shown by hachures.Українська: Карта Південно-Східної Австралії. Зображені маршрути дослідників у період 1817-1830 років та дев'ятнадцять округів в штаті Новий Південний Уельс. Рельєф показано штрихуванням.
context_page_description: The Nineteen Counties were the limits of location in the colony of New South Wales, Australia. Settlers were permitted to take up land only within the counties due to the dangers in the wilderness.
  They were defined by the Governor of New South Wales Ralph Darling in 1826 in accordance with a government order from Lord Bathurst, the Secretary of State. Counties had been used since the first year of settlement, with Cumberland County being proclaimed on 6 June 1788. Several others were later proclaimed around the Sydney area. A further order of 1829 extended these boundaries of the settlement to an area defined as the Nineteen Counties. From 1831 the granting of free land ceased and the only land that was to be made available for sale was within the Nineteen Counties.
  The area covered by the limit extended to Taree in the north, Batemans Bay in the south and Wellington to the West.
  The Nineteen Counties were mapped by the Surveyor General Major Thomas Mitchell in 1834. The scale of the map that Mitchell produced was determined by the amount of ship's copper available in Sydney to engrave the map.
context_section_description: Gloucester: northern-most boundary was the Manning River; the county incorporated Port Stephens
  Durham: west of Gloucester, southern Boundary was the Hunter River
  Northumberland:  northern boundary was the Hunter River and the southern boundary was formed by the Hawkesbury River
  Cumberland: incorporated Sydney, Windsor, Parramatta, Liverpool and Appin to the south
  Camden: included Camden, Picton and Berrima with the southern-most border defined by the Shoalhaven River
  St Vincent: from the Shoalhaven River south to the Moruya River, included Jervis Bay, Batemans Bay and Braidwood
  Hunter: west of the county of Northumberland, bounded by the Hunter River to the north
  Cook: west of Cumberland county and south of the county of Hunter
  Westmoreland: west of the counties of Cook and Camden
  Georgiana: west of the county of Westmoreland
  King: north of the county of Murray and west of the counties of Argyle and Georgiana
  Murray: incorporating the Limestone Plains and Lake George, bounded by the Murrumbidgee River to the west, the south western extent of limits of settlement
  Argyle: west of Camden county, included Goulburn, bounded by the Shoalhaven River to the south east
  Roxburgh: north east of the county of Bathurst, west of the counties of Cook and Hunter
  Bathurst: bounded by the Lachlan River to the south west, incorporating the town of Bathurst, west of the counties of Roxburgh and Westmoreland
  Brisbane: north of the Hunter River, west of the county of Durham, one of the northern-most  counties
  Phillip: west of the county of Hunter and north of Roxburgh
  Wellington: north of Bathurst, the town of Wellington was in the northwest of the county and the Macquarie River flowed through the middle
  Bligh: the north-westernmost county, north of the county of Phillip and west of the county of Brisbane
caption: Nineteen counties, New South Wales, Australia, 1832
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