An early settler who was not a convict.
the settlements were populated in part by convicts and in part by free settlers
Example sentencesExamples
- The arrival of free settlers in ever-increasing numbers from the 1820s led to the development of a contested vocabulary.
- Most of the early free settlers were Anglo-Jewish, middle-class immigrants who transposed the English pattern of Jewish practice to Australia.
- The issue arose whether the Courts of Quarter Sessions were obliged to sit with juries for the trial of free settlers.
- We do hear of convicts trying to get rations from the free settlers.
- The convicts had painted such an exciting portrait of life in The Fair Isle of Oz that the first free settlers began rocking up.
- The settlements were populated in part by convicts and the attendant military forces, in part by free settlers.
- God's Police were the good and virtuous women who came later when Australian society had developed to the point where it could attract free settlers.
- The officers and wealthy free settlers were anxious to organise their own entertainments.
- South Australia was the only Australian colony to be founded by free settlers.
- An alternative was to attract free settlers who would make the island a base for British trade to South America.