Information about the history of the Paterson area in the Hunter Valley of NSW, including its people, institutions and places, particularly in the early colonial period. http://www.patersonriver.com.au history of George Townshend and Elizabeth Manning. They were landholders on the Paterson River near Gresford. He named the grant Trevallyn. http://www.patersonriver.com.au/people/townshendg.htm http://www.patersonriver.com.au/people/townshendg.htm history of Walter Scott, an early surgeon and landholder on the Paterson River who named his grant Wallalong, and a later purchase Eskdale. http://www.patersonriver.com.au/people/scottw.htm http://www.patersonriver.com.au/people/scottw.htm history of John Galt Smith and his wife Eliza nee Walsh, first landholders at Woodville on the Paterson River, plus map of land grants in the Woodville area. http://www.patersonriver.com.au/people/smithjg.htm http://www.patersonriver.com.au/people/smithjg.htm history of Isaac Nind, an early doctor at Paterson who ran a hospital at Tillimby. http://www.patersonriver.com.au/people/nindi.htm http://www.patersonriver.com.au/people/nindi.htm