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BUSHRANGERS - CAPTAIN MOONLITE (Andrew George Scott 1842-1880): c1858-79 archive (33 letters & documents) related to celebrity bushranger Captain Moonlite. Includes extracts from his birth & baptism records in Ireland; few documents from Scott’s time in NZ during the Maori Wars; after 1869 “Captain Moonlite” robbery at Mt.Egerton - documents & letters related to Scott’s activities in Sydney, Fiji & New Caledonia, including the purchase of a group of Islands in Fiji; 1870 Bill of Sale for purchase of the ketch “Comet”; 3 signed letters from Andrew George Scott in Pentridge; 3 manuscript notes related to the siege at Wantabadgery, in which a policeman & one of the “Moonliters” Gang were shot.