John Blaxland | State Library of New South Wales
John Blaxland

John Blaxland, c. 1785–1798
Artist unknown
Watercolour on ivory
Presented by Reverend Canon Cuthbert Blaxland, 1926
MIN 88

John Blaxland was one of only five men to appear in both Macquarie’s lists of enemies. Despite having been supplied with men, cattle and land by the Government, he and his brother Gregory were, according to Macquarie, ‘the most discontented unreasonable and troublesome persons in the colony.’