King Tom and Queen Maria welcome Governor to Segenoe

King Tom and Queen Maria welcome Governor to Segenoe. Aboriginal people participate in an official welcome arranged by landholder Potter Macqueen at Segenhoe on the occasion of a visit by Sir Richard Bourke, Governor of NSW. This includes “native chief of Segenhoe” who stands “with forty followers, painted in a most grotesque manner, carrying spears twelve and fourteen feet long and other instruments of war, and eight black boys, each holding a leash of kangaroo dogs…The evening ended with a corroboree”. Blanket returns for 1828-1829 list “King Tom as Chief of the tribe and his wife as Queen Maria”. (Sydney Morning Herald, 24 November 1834 in Brayshaw, On revisiting Gundy, 233-34).