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View Previous Version. John Piper , military officer, public servant and landowner, was born on 8 August at Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of Hugh Piper, a vintner. Through the influence of his uncle, Captain John Piper, young John received a commission as ensign in the newly formed New South Wales Corps in April , as his younger brother Hugh was to do in John sailed in the Pitt and arrived in Sydney in February when the infant settlement was still fighting for its life in the face of starvation.

Piper was an immediate social success and became a close family friend of John Macarthur. In at his own request he was sent on duty to the even more primitive settlement at Norfolk Island, possibly because of an entanglement from which his more discreet friends were anxious to rescue him. While he was away they looked after his interests and secured him a land grant of acres 45 ha at Parramatta.

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On the island he received a liberal education in those savage military quarrels which beset the early days of the colony. In Piper was promoted lieutenant and returned to the mainland. From to he was away on leave. In he was given the local rank of captain.

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In the struggle between the corps and Governor Philip Gidley King , of which Macarthur was the ringleader, Piper stood with his friend, and in September acted as his second in a duel with Colonel William Paterson , his commanding officer. King arrested both Macarthur and Piper, but decided that Piper could be dealt with locally. At his court martial in he apologized and was acquitted, much to King's disgust.

In he was again detailed for duty on Norfolk Island. It was fortunate for Piper that he spent the next six years on the island and so was thrown clear of the troubles on the mainland, notably the Rum Rebellion.