This article was published in Australian Dictionary of
Biography, Volume 2, (MUP), 1967 James Milson (1783-1872),
farmer, was born on 25 November 1783 at Grantham, Lincolnshire,
England. He arrived in Sydney in the Albion in August 1806 and
obtained employment on a farm at the Field of Mars (near Ryde).
On 8 January 1810 at St Philip's Church, Sydney, he married
Elizabeth Kilpack (1793-1850), his employer's daughter; he then
described himself as 'servant and labourer'. By June 1820 he was
living on a grant of 100 acres (40 ha) at Pennant Hills, where
he ran 40 cattle. He had too little pasture for them and asked
for more land. His request was supported by Robert Campbell who
had been a fellow passenger in the Albion. In 1824 he was
authorized to select 300 acres (121 ha) near Pennant Hills but
when he was informed that this land had been granted to another
he sought 50 acres (20 ha) at North Shore and 300 (121 ha)
farther inland. By 1825 he was farming on the North Shore of
Sydney Harbour; his house there was