Topics: Events: North West
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1828 - view
A warrant is issued for the capture of Melville and Harry for alleged murders of Europeans at Glendon
1828 - view
He later resigned his office as a Wesleyan Missionary on the grounds that he could see no possible means of prosecuting the Mission
1828 - view
Melville, Harry and Bulwarra are ordered to surrender. They raise a “war whoop” and shower the policing party with spears
1828 - view
Aboriginal people are adapting to changing social, economic and cultural conditions. They begin to “come in” to live and work on or near homesteads on or near their traditional lands
1829 - view
Threlkeld is dismissed by the London Missionary Society
1829 - view
General’s crescent-shaped king plate suspended from his neck. Later again it is worn by Larry
1829 - view
Numerous properties start to grow grapes and produce wine
1829 - view
Rev Threlkeld completes his first draft of St Luke’s Gospel translated into the local Aboriginal language
1829 - view
Reward for his assistance in reducing his Native Tongue to a written Language
1830 - view
Aboriginal people are working in fledgling agricultural and pastoral industries. Many are skilled in the “use of the sickle”
1830 - view
Between 1840 and 1870, settlement is extended into hill country
1830 - view
“Justice towards [Aborigines] on our part has never been thought of…English rules…render it exceedingly difficult to cause the law to be put in force against murderers and other heinous wrong-doers towards the natives; and when…conviction has been obtained, the government has sympathized too much with the oppressing class, and too little with the oppressed, to permit justice to have its course. About 1799 several white people committed a murder…near Windsor , on the Hawkesbury , and were convicted
1830 - view
In [1826] a black man was shot in cold blood at the stake by the soldiers upon Hunter’s River
1830 - view
Aboriginal trackers work with the Wollombi police through to the 1930s
1830 - view
Chughi must have held some important position in the tribe as Bean designated him “Chief of the Broken Bay, Narara”
1831 - view
allotments offered for sale
1831 - view
Completion and opening to the public of the Great North Road
1832 - view
76 land grants totalling 22,000 acres for 67 settlers
1832 - view
Death of King Bungaree , Chief of the Broken Bay Tribe
1833 - view
Deeds are later issued for the occupied land at Grace’s settlement on Marra Marra Creek. Sarah Wallace (Ferdinand) purchases three acres