 However, it was later transferred as a settlement of The Crown on 4 March 1837.In April 1835, John Batman, a prominent grazier and a member of the Geelong and Dutigalla Association (later Port Phillip Association), sailed from Launceston on the island of Van Diemen's Land (now the State of Tasmania), aboard the schooner "Rebecca", in search of fresh grazing land in the south-east of the Colony of New South Wales (the mainland Australian continent).He sailed across Bass Strait, into the bay of Port Phillip, and arrived at the mouth of the Yarra River in May.