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1837 - North West - view
Jacques states that a party of 50 to 60 Aborigines approached his house and demanded meat in a hostile manner. He and Rust close the house and barricade themselves inside. During the attack, Rust is hit in the side by a spear
1838 - North Coastal - view
Local
Central Coast constables spend six nights defending a settler’s farm from
Aboriginal attacks.
1838 - North West - view
Aboriginal Police Corps…There are several amongst the tribes
1838 - North West - view
“Make me the head of them” replied M’Gill, “and not a bushranger shall escape my tribe”
1838 - North West - view
Myall Creek Massacre
1838 - North West - view
The Myall Creek Massacre and the trials of most of the perpetrators mark a devolution of burden of colonial security and punitive expeditions against Aboriginal people from the control of the British garrison to that of settlers and local police
1838 - North West - view
a response by Bishop Broughton is worth noting : he disapproves of mixed marriages on the grounds that the Aborigines are unbelievers
1838 - North West - view
They include the forced removal of Gooris onto mission stations or reserves such as at Karuah and St. Clair (Singleton)
1839 - North West - view
The Wolombi police establishment includes a clerk of court, chief constable, district constable, eight ordinary constables, two watch house [gaol] keepers and a scourger (whipping man)
1839 - North West - view
Myall Creek massacre of 1838, Eliza was outraged by these atrocities. She wrote the lament “The Aboriginal Mother”. This poem is remarkable for her use of Aboriginal words
1839 - North West - view
one living with him although 30 came to the mission
1839 - North West - view
a “young, conceited, self-complacent gentleman” who with “extreme loquacity” advocated summarily flogging “of the blacks without trial”
1839 - North West - view
Lt Charles Wilkes donates this cloak to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington
1839 - North West - view
Their sentence is commuted to two years labour in irons on Coal Island in Sydney Harbour, where they are to be kept in isolation and employed in stone cutting
1840 - North West - view
He favoured me several times with his company, and perhaps thought it an honor when he made proposals to me for the matrimonial alliance with one of the members of my family
1840 - North West - view
“Little Breeches” assists to track and capture a gang of bushrangers