 In July 1815 Evans was required to return to Hobart and he remained there until 1817.In the interim, in November 1816, emancipist landholder Simeon Lord (who held a mortgage over Evans' property since 2/1804 and who had placed the 1812 sale notice, conveyed Webb's 60 acres, and the neighbouring grant of 30 acres originally made to John Irving, to George Thomas Palmer.Palmer (1784-1854) was son of the colony's Commissariat, John Palmer.