Ocean View, Delaware bypassed the area where Ocean View now lies because of the poor quality of its sandy, salty soil and the salt air that blew in from the Atlantic Ocean; they preferred to settle a few miles farther inland, where the land was higher and drier and the soil richer. Would-be settlers also faced a legal complication in obtaining land in what is now Ocean View, because Lord Baltimore claimed the area as part of his Maryland colony, while William Penn asserted that the area belonged to the Delaware Colony; settlers opted to look elsewhere for land to which they could
Macquarie Harbour Penal Station - Being an account of twelve voyages to Macquarie Harbour and Sarah Island" furthers understanding of the history and the recent archaeological work on the island. The films "The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce" and "Van Diemen's Land" deal with one of the more notorious escapees. 3 September 1830 five men ran away from the settlement, Richard Hutchinson, William Coventry, Patrick Fagan, Mathew Macavoy, and Broughton, and that they were upwards of thirty days before the two 'survivors' surrendered themselves at Macguire's Marsh near Osterley. Macquarie Harbour Penal Station The Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, a former British colonial penal settlement,