Topics: Events: North West
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1805 - view
Six Aboriginal men from Newcastle are taken to Sydney to meet Governor King
1805 - view
Jack of The Branch natives , leads a group of Aborigines to fatally assault a “Military settler” on the Hawkesbury. He is later shot while boarding a river trader at Mangrove
1808 - view
Governor Macquarie ’s leadership (1810-1822). He arrives in 1810 and creates new positions including Andrew Thompson as the Hawkesbury’s Justice of the Peace and Magistrate
1814 - view
Six year old Maria from Richmond Hill is educated there. Maria remains at the Institution until she is 14
1816 - view
make“gorgets or breast plates with chains for native chiefs”
1816 - view
Aborigines are designated “king” rather than merely “chief”
1816 - view
Governor Macquarie ’s administration grants land
1816 - view
Betty Fulton and Milbah are captured during the Appin Massacre
1816 - view
Their land became the “infant settlement” at “the black town” on Richmond Road, later renamed Plumpton
1816 - view
Governor Macquarie issues a Proclamation forbidding Aborigines to carry offensive weapons within proximity of white settlement
1816 - view
Bidgee Bidgee and Harry , Nurragingy and Colebee , act as guides. As their reward, the latter two receive land grants on the Richmond Road, which become “the Black Town”
1816 - view
Captain James Wallis arrives as third Commandant in Newcastle two months after he commanded his 46th Regiment against Aboriginals near Airds and Appin and received the thanks of Governor Lachlan Macquarie for his “zealous exertions and strict attention to the fulfilling of the instructions”
1816 - view
A large number of warriors hurling their spears makes clear that they intend to repulse the Europeans from the mouth of the Hunter River
1816 - view
The “black Natives [are] living now peaceably and quietly in every part of the colony, unmolested by the white inhabitants”
1817 - view
He establishes a punt to ferry travellers
1817 - view
passes through many fires burning on ridgelines. He blames this obstructive behaviour on the Mellon natives behind and the Hawkesbury natives ahead
1818 - view
Bantagran not only saves the lives of party members but opens an invaluable dialogue between Singleton and elders of Hunter Valley tribesmen
1818 - view
Singleton abandons the idea of crossing the mountains in view of what Mu:pi reports. A dash to this large river seems risky
1818 - view
Bantagran is thus the first Aboriginal to describe the river to a local landholder
1818 - view
The first land grant follows in the early 1820s