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Source : The Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time, J. Henniker Heaton, Sydney, 1879, p. 83.
“HACK, JOHN BARTON, South Australia, one of the pioneers of the colony, born at Chichester, Sussex, July 2, 1805, was educated at Southgate, Middlesex. he arrived in the colony, February 10, 1837, with his wife and six children; and having called at Van Dieman’s Land, he purchased sheep, cattle, and horses there, and brought them over in the ‘Isabella,’ commanded by Captain John Hart, who afterwards became one of the leading men of the colony. Mr. Hack’s sheep unfortunately were nearly all ost the first night on shore, for want of a proper yard for their protection. He undertook the first Government contract in the colony, which was to cut a dry canal through the Sandhills, at the old Port, to deep water in the creek, to afford a convenient landing place for goods from vessels. Mr. Hack suffered with many others in consequence of the heavy depreciation of property in 1842, resulting from the crash that took place after the dishonour of Governor Gawler’s drafts on the Home Government. He embarked in a whale fishery with the S. A. Company, and employed Captain Hart, whose vessel was wrecked in Portland Bay. He was the first person to take out special surveys of land, which he did at the Little Para and the Three Brothers survey, near Echunga. he was appointed one of the committee to name the streets of the city, and bought no less than 64 acres at the Government sale of town lands. Had he been able to retain them, he would now be onr of the wealthiest men in the colony. In 1869 Mr. Hack was appointed accountant to the Goods department of the South Australian Railways, an office he still holds.”
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