A letter and a 24 page diary (within a volume with many pages removed). The diary provides a timeline from 3/1/1820 of the activities undertaken by Alexander Laing while Chief Constable of Pittwater. It also includes an account by Laing of his free arrival with Mr Drummond in Sydney in 1814. This is in conflict with other accounts where he is a convict sentenced in 1813 and sent in 1815 to NSW per the Marquis of Wellington and on to Hobart per the Emu. According to convict record CON13/1/1 Laing was assigned to a Mr Drummond in Hobart as part of his sentence. The accompanying letter is an application from Alexander Laing, Forcett, 18/5/1868, to H Bartlett regarding a gratuity application. These items came to the Tasmanian Archives from the collection of George Billings and a donation by D G Read.

These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives