Wyong
In 1826 attacks on settlers continued and probably were supplemented from warriors coming from further north. A punitive expedition was mounted by the British against Koories near Wyong. Twenty Koories were captured and eight imprisoned on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour.
The first Census of the native population was taken in the Brisbane Water by Magistrate Bean. He reported five family groups of ‘natives’ (he referred to them as tribes). These family groups were centred at Broken Bay (15 people), Erina (10), Narara (10), Tuggerah Beach (15) and Wyong (15). The groups were: The Mial or Broken Bay; Narara; Erina; Tuggerah Beach; Wyong. He estimated a total of 65 persons. He notes evidence of recent Koori settlement at Kincumber, Patonga, Somersby, Ourimbah, Wyong River, Jilliby Creek valleys, Tuggerah Beach, Munmorah-Norah Head, Mangrove, Kulnurra. (Brisbane Water Historical Society 1968) In the same year, William Cape, one of Wyong’s first farmers, reported that 200 Aboriginal people had arrived on what he regarded as his land and took his potato crop. The visiting Darginjung tribe from Wollombi claimed that they needed extra food. Some time later one of Cape’s stockmen was speared. The district constable and 15 armed men pursued the Aboriginal men and took two prisoners.