He arrived in Geelong in Victoria from Tasmania in July 1836 after his brother Thomas was the first to land sheep at Point Henry in February 1836.
[1] Peter Manifold and his brothers took up a sheep run around Batesford, occupying land both side of the Moorabool River.
[5] In 1840, Peter Manifold along with another pastoral squatter Arthur Lloyd presented to the Geelong police magistrate the following signed deposition of aboriginal sheep stealing and subsequent shootings.
On 12 September 1840, Mr Arthur Lloyd reported that upon his absence on 21 August 1840, 100 of his sheep were driven away from his station by the natives.
Upon confrontation, there were approximately 40 to 50 natives who presented their spears and showed signs of hostility, at which Peter Manifold, his brother, and Arthur Lloyd open-fired.