Topics: People: Political leaders
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1801 - North West - view
Governor King
1801 - North Coastal - view
Garigal
clan leader Grewin from Patonga leads his clan in Pittwater helping seamen and
plundering wreckage from shipwrecks. Report by Lieutenant James Grant who walks
from North Head to Pittwater accompanied by three Garigal men, four women and
two children. They meet 10 other Garigal people camped at “Narrobine
[Narrabeen] Lagoon”.
1801 - North Coastal - view
10
June, Bungaree sails on the Lady Nelson to the Coal River, Newcastle, in an
expedition looking for coal. At the Hunter
River, Bungaree joins the
Koories and makes his own way southwards to his country on foot.
1802 - 1803 - North Coastal - view
Nanbaree returns to Sydney
earlier as he is homesick.
1802 - 1803 - North Coastal - view
On
his return, Bungaree brings the Broken
Bay clan to settle in
Port Jackson. He makes camp at Kirribilli.
1802 - 1803 - North Coastal - view
Bungaree
sets out on 22 July on the Investigator to circumnavigate Australia
with Matthew Flinders and another Koorie man Nanbaree, who has been brought up
in the settlement by Surgeon White. Bungaree is the first Indigenous man to
circumnavigate Australia.
1803 - North West - view
Governor King
1804 - North Coastal - view
Governor King sends Bungaree on the ship Resource to
help with negotiations with Awabakal people at Hunter
River near Newcastle where the penal settlement has been
reopened. Bungaree also is asked by King to escort six Koories from Hunter River
back home. Bungaree stays on to assist Lieutenant Menzies, in charge of the Kings Town (Newcastle). Returning by
foot to Sydney, runaway convicts attack
Bungaree’s clansmen as they pass through the Central Coast
area and kill Bungaree’s father. Bungaree becomes an Elder of his clan.
1804 - North Coastal - view
Bungaree visits his family’s settlement in Sydney more frequently for
tribal gatherings and becomes a favourite of Governor Macquarie. The Governor
wants Aboriginal people to settle down to grow crops and other sedentary
activities. (Historical Monograph, Brisbane Water Historical Society, 1981)
1804 - North West - view
Governor King