Was tried at the Old Bailey London in 11/7/1787 on a charge of stealing a dead lamb from Richard Elland's Slaughterhouse at Enfield. Later selling it to a butcher in London. He arrived on the second fleet ship Surprise in 1790. From at least 1795 Simon lived with Mary Wells.
In 1794 Simon was granted land on the River Hawkesbury in the district of Mulgrave Place. The family lived in the Hawkesbury area for more than 60 years.
In 1804 he received 100 acres in the district of Mulgrave Place.
Simon died in 1856 at his daughter Sarah Hoskisson's home "Clifton" and Mary in 1855. 
There is a stone in St Matthews Windsor in memory of Simons age 103 being the greatest age recorded in the churchyard.
Between the granting of these two portions of land Simon stood trial for his part in the alleged murder of the two natives by killing them with a cutlass and burrying the bodies, in the Hawkesbury in 1799, in an attempt to avenge the murder of his friend Thomas Hoskisson. The men were found guilty of the killings of the natives but were released on orders from England.
Later Simon's Daughter Sarah married the youngest son of Thomas Hoskisson.

Christened on 3/6/1767 at St Andrews, Enfield Middlesex England (then beyond the Northern boundary of suburban London), Now part of greater London. In later life he was known as Simon Clarkson Freebody where as in his early years he was known as Sion Clarkson Freebody

Twin of Sarah