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free settlernoun Australian historicalAn early settler who was not a convict: the settlements were populated in part by convicts and in part by free settlers...- We do hear of convicts trying to get rations from the free settlers.
- The issue arose whether the Courts of Quarter Sessions were obliged to sit with juries for the trial of free settlers.
- South Australia was the only Australian colony to be founded by free settlers.
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