However, by the time that Mackellar actually joined the navy, the colony was already under a rebel de facto government, following the Rum Rebellion, which had occurred on 26 January 1808.
Porpoise played a significant role in the aftermath of the rebellion, taking Bligh, who had been held under house arrest, to Hobart, in early 1809.
In 1815, he served on Salisbury, commanded by Captain John Mackellar,[9] his first cousin once-removed, who would eventually rise to the rank of Admiral and be knighted.
[15][16] Mackellar's wife (Janet Jane née Leitch)[17] was murdered, by an assigned convict, in the district of 'Upper Minto' (which extended as far south as modern-day Appin[18]), near the Cowpastures, in 1828, while her husband was away at "the New Country".
[19][20][21][22][23] The New Country probably refers to the newer areas of settlement, at the time, which would include Braidwood where Mackellar was preparing to move onto the land granted to him.
As a consequence of his loss and the earlier destruction of his house in a fire, Mackellar was given a second land grant by Governor Darling.
[26] Mackellar, Junior's, own two land grants, Jinglemoney and Gingamona, of 640 acres each, were west of the Shoalhaven River, in the vicinity of Bombay, in the County of Murray.