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1825 - North West - view
The blacks assembled to fight, we employed them, and the waging of war was postponed
1825 - North West - view
As the violent frontier pushes many of our mob north, some find Tingha a “safe haven”
1825 - North West - view
I am every way disposed to give all possible facility to your pious endeavours for civilising the poor degraded natives of this country
1825 - North West - view
The natives appear anxious for our settling out here
1826 - North West - view
Aboriginal people living in the Hunter Valley and Hawkesbury-Hunter ranges are taking refuge in elevated hinterland areas
1826 - North West - view
Another fringe landform that Aboriginal people occupy is the large swamps and wetlands that are prominent features of some intensely settled areas such as the Paterson Valley
1826 - South Coastal - view
Governor’s Feast
1826 - North West - view
pproximately two years after the “Bathurst Wars”, frontier clashes mount in the Hunter region
1826 - North West - view
Thousands of convicts are employed to build the Great North Road over nearly 10 years
1826 - North West - view
Richard Wiseman establishes an Inn
1826 - North West - view
Conrad Martens produces two paintings of the Hawkesbury River near Wiseman’s Ferry
1826 - North West - view
Aboriginal men kill and spear four men including the overseer, plunder huts and enrage settlers who are already frustrated with Aborigines who burn their grass, spear their cattle and threaten to destroy their wheat harvests
1826 - North West - view
Lowe is charged with the murder of Jacky Jacky. He stands trial in the Supreme Court. After a court case that centres on the legal status of Aboriginal victims
1826 - North West - view
Outrages are committed by Natives in the District of Hunter’s River
1826 - North West - view
Aboriginal men work gathering grapes on Glendon Estate during the nineteenth century
1827 - North West - view
Of the total of 2,979 Aboriginal people
recorded as living in “settled districts” in NSW during 1827, nearly half live
in the wider Hunter region (approximately 1,412)
1827 - North West - view
“The black population is as great, if not greater, than the white which cannot be said of any other place in the Colony – They carry wood and water, and in short are the willing servants of the lowest classes
1827 - North West - view
Hassel in 1897 compiled a book of “Songs by Australian Blacks”