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First Fleeter /fəːst ˈfliːtə /noun AustralianOne of the first settlers who sailed to Australia from England in 1787: many of the First Fleeters acquired dingoes as pets...- As an entrepreneur, a businessman, and a family man, the ex-convict first fleeter, helped to lay the foundations for the new and respectable society which was to become Australia.
- Fifty of the 1,500 First Fleeters were children, some among them convicts.
- Fear of starvation led to a division of the First Fleeters into two convict settlements.
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