Distracted Settlement: New South Wales after Bligh from the Journal of Lieutenant James Finucane 1808-1810 (Miegunyah Press)

Finucane, a lieutenant in the New South Wales Corp, was secretary to Lieutenant Governor Joseph Foveaux who acted as the colony's administrator after Governor Bligh’s overthrow. Finucane's account traces Foveaux's arrival from England, his discovery that Bligh had been placed under arrest and his decision to assume the administration of the colony himself.