George Best was born in 1757. He was a farmer in Sussex, England. On 24 November 1789 he burglarised the home of William Cheeseman the Elder in East Peckham, Kent, and stole a watch, its case, chain and key as well as a steel seal.

The indictment against George Best records that he was a labourer of the Parish of East Peckham, however, a contemporary newspaper reported that George Best had to be brought by a writ of habeus corpus from Surrey to face the charges laid against him in Kent.

He was convicted in 1790 at Sent Assizes, Kent, England, of stealing goods to the value of £5-0-3 of William Cheeseman the Elder, and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to transportation for life.

He was a convict aboard The Ship William And Ann which sailed from Plymouth, England, in 1791 and arrived in Sydney, NSW on 28 August 1791. The master was E Bunker and they were part of the Third Fleet to NSW.

By 1793 he had become the taskmaster/overseer at the Government Farm at Toongabbie. In 1796 he received his first grant of land, 30 acres at Toongabbie. In 1797 George Best became the father of a son by Martha Chamberlain, a convict who had arrived in Sydney 30 April 1796. George and Martha were married on 17 September 1797.

George Best received a conditional pardon in 1800 and an absolute pardon in 1804. The 1828 census shows George Best as holding 805 acres, of which 70 acres were cultivated. He also owned 19 horses, 340 cattle and 1,140 sheep. In 1832 he appears to have been running an Inn in his home at Toongabbie.

He was buried at St John's Church, Parramatta, NSW.

Taken from http://www.firstfamilies2001.net.au/firstfamily.cfm?id=Best18521722110 and other sources.