John Stuart Hepburn

[2] Hepburn joined Gardiner and Joseph Hawdon in a venture to overland cattle to Port Phillip.

In 1837, Hepburn and William Coghill became partners in a plan to overland 1400 ewes, 50 rams and 200 wethers to central Victoria.

Shortly after leaving Gundagai, New South Wales, they met William Bowman and the three parties travelled southward, crossing the Murray River near Albury.

Bowman stayed, establishing the Sutton Grange run, but leaving it for Jas Orr when he moved on to Stratford near Heathcote.

John Hepburn died in 1860 aged 57 and he was buried with other members of his family in a small cemetery on the property.