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1818 - North West - view

Aboriginal boy named Wallace is taken from Newcastle by Captain James Wallis and is placed in the Parramatta Native Institution

1818 - North West - view

Captain Wallis of the 46th Regiment who had commanded the grenadiers against Aboriginal people (Gundungurra) in 1816. Following his “zealous exertions” in the punitive expedition, he is appointed by Governor Macquarie to relieve Lieutenant Thompson as Commandant at Newcastle

1819 - North West - view

"Cutting a black native with a knife."

1819 - North West - view

He becomes a notable Aborigine at Rev Threlkeld’s mission on Lake Macquarie and accompanies Leichhardt on his first and second expeditions

1820 - North West - view

Burrigan is stabbed by Kirby the following morning when the men panic at the sight of arriving soldiers

1820 - North West - view

In the late 1820s, numerous central coast Aboriginal men become famous for their assistance to the colony, particularly as trackers of runaway convicts

1820 - North West - view

A brass or tin plate with an inscription, is also a great desideratum in their eyes, to hang round their necks

1820 - North West - view

Death of King Burrigan of the Newcastle tribe , from injuries sustained in the recapture of convicts

1820 - North West - view

Three convicts are flogged for “Inhumanely ill treating and cutting a black native and intimidating him against bringing in bushrangers"

1820 - North West - view

Trial and execution

1820 - North West - view

Governor Macquarie rewards Mioram (“Myles”) with a breast plate and Howe promises that he can keep a musket

1820 - North West - view

corn season “when they steal large quantities”, they also assist to bring in the harvest

1820 - North West - view

an official system of using Aborigines as guards and trackers to prevent the escape of prisoners

1820 - North West - view

“decorated by the commandant with a brass crescent-shaped plate” to confer on them the rank of “chief”

1821 - West - view

form a nucleus of stable Europeanised Aboriginal settlers

1821 - North West - view

The Governor records not only the growing farming settlement, but also the mobility of Bungaree on whom Macquarie conferred the title of “King” and installed him on a farm at George’s Head

1821 - West - view

300 Aborigines attend the annual Native Conference at Parramatta

1821 - North West - view

There is a significant number of fatalities among Aboriginal children at the Native Institution

1821 - West - view

Two Aboriginal couples marry in 1821 (Polly to Michael Yarringguy and Betty to Bobby Nurragingy)

1821 - North West - view

Biraban tracks escaped convicts. He returns to Lake Macquarie and as Biraban he assumes ceremonial leadership among his people, becoming “tribal king” of the district under Governor Macquarie