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During the Governorship of Arthur Phillip from the First Fleet several Aborigine people became prominent in the colony, people such as Bennelong and Colbee and their wives and the guerrilla fighter Pemulwuy who resisted the colony's encroachment with organised raids. Other colonists adopted children who had lost family in the smallpox epidemic of 1790 and others such as Dawes (Dawes Point is where the Sydney Harbour Bridge is situated on the south bank) had a local girlfriend.
Bennelong had a brick house built for him on what is now Bennelong point where the Sydney Opera House now stands and on several occasions pointed out to Governor Phillip that he personally owned Goat Island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.
WI these and other prominent people had particular plots of land recognised by the British authorities? For example Bennelongs house and Goat Island were passed to his descendants or next of kin after his death? Or Pemulwuy was given a large land grant while these grants were being handed out to colonists? I'm not suggesting that terra nullius be not implemented, just that prominent person X be given Y amount of land in a certain area just like colonists were getting.