Johnston refused to give him the land he wanted at Emu Island, near Penrith; though he was given 2000 acres at Botany Bay near the present Blakehurst and twenty-eight government cattle, he claimed that only half the grant was of any use, and his long complaints against Bligh written in 1807 and 1808 were followed by another, equally querulous, in 1809 against his supplanters."