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1829 - North West - view
Threlkeld is dismissed by the London Missionary Society
1829 - North Coastal - view
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European households are recorded in the Brisbane Waters district, for the first
time outnumbering Koories. Fish are netted in such large quantities that they
are fed to pigs. Lobsters, a favourite food for Koories are at first so
plentiful that 70 can be caught each night by whites. The habitat for
marsupials is cut down by timber getters while kangaroo grass is cut and
carried to Sydney for fodder. The Aboriginal land-based traditional foods begin
to be severely depleted in the Gosford area.
1829 - North West - view
General’s crescent-shaped king plate suspended from his neck. Later again it is worn by Larry
1829 - North West - view
Numerous properties start to grow grapes and produce wine
1829 - North West - view
Rev Threlkeld completes his first draft of St Luke’s Gospel translated into the local Aboriginal language
1829 - North West - view
Reward for his assistance in reducing his Native Tongue to a written Language
1830 - North West - view
Aboriginal trackers work with the Wollombi police through to the 1930s
1830 - North West - view
Chughi must have held some important position in the tribe as Bean designated him “Chief of the Broken Bay, Narara”
1830 - North West - view
Aboriginal people are working in fledgling agricultural and pastoral industries. Many are skilled in the “use of the sickle”
1830 - South West - view
widespread conflicts
1830 - North West - view
Between 1840 and 1870, settlement is extended into hill country
1830 - South West - view
economic depression
1830 - North West - 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 - North West - view
In [1826] a black man was shot in cold blood at the stake by the soldiers upon Hunter’s River
1831 - North West - view
allotments offered for sale
1831 - North West - view
Completion and opening to the public of the Great North Road
1832 - North West - view
76 land grants totalling 22,000 acres for 67 settlers
1832 - North West - view
Death of King Bungaree , Chief of the Broken Bay Tribe