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(June 2008)| |Died||21 April 1826| |Years active||1800 - 1822|
|Known for||Early Australian surveyor| Meehan was born in
Ireland in 1774, and was one of a number of political prisoners
who arrived in Australia in February 1800. Two months later he
became an assistant to Charles Grimes, the surveyor-general, and
went with him to explore the Hunter River in 1801. He was also
with Grimes on the expedition to explore King Island and Port
Phillip in 1802 and 1803. Grimes had leave of absence from
August 1803 to go to England, and during his absence for about
three years, Meehan did much of his work with the title of
assistant-surveyor. In October 1805 Governor King directed him
to trace the course of the Nepean to the southward a little
beyond Mount Taurus, and in October 1807 Meehan prepared his
plan of Sydney. In 1812 Governor Macquarie sent him to Tasmania
with instructions to remeasure the whole of the farms granted by
former governors and himself. He