Percy Place

Percy Place is the name of a 100 acre property located at 190 Hall Street, Pitt Town, New South Wales owned by George Hall and his descendants from 1815-1899. Hall was born in Northumberland, England in 1763. In June 1802, Hall, his wife Mary Smith accompanied by three sons and one daughter arrived in the colony of NSW as a free settlers aboard the Coromandel. Together with other Coromandel settlers, the Hall family spent a period of some months on the government farm at Toongabbie before taking up a grant of land at Portland Head (now Ebenezer) in early 1803.

Percy Place is made up of three portions of land granted to Thomas Webb (30 acres), William Waring (20 acres) and James Simpson (50 acres). George Hall purchased the allotments in 1815. Located on a sharp bend of the Hawkesbury River between York Reach and Canning Reach, Hall built a two story brick residence on high ground in the early 1820s which was destroyed by fire in August 1906.

George Hall was drowned in the Hawkesbury River in 1840 aged 77 years. His obituary appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 10 November 1840.

The land passed to John John Johnston and his wife Elizabeth (nee Hall) in 1889 for the sum of £1,600. In December 1911, local builders Fred and Herb Cupitt completed an eleven room house for Mr Ernie Johnston at Percy Place.

The property is currently operated as a caravan park known as Percy’s Place.

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