Topics: Events: North West
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1826 - 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 - 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 - view
Outrages are committed by Natives in the District of Hunter’s River
1826 - view
Aboriginal men work gathering grapes on Glendon Estate during the nineteenth century
1827 - 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 - 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 - view
Hassel in 1897 compiled a book of “Songs by Australian Blacks”
1827 - view
Solomon Wiseman is granted a lease for seven years to operate a ferry to take passengers, livestock and goods across the river
1827 - view
first census of Darkinjung people in the Brisbane Waters district
1827 - view
Aborigines begin to depend on government issued blankets and rations as settlers occupy their lands. This not only prevents them from traditional food gathering and hunting, but also the making of animal skin coats
1827 - view
A number of these homesteads also become an important area of employment for Aboriginal people in the pastoral industry: Invermain at Scone, Segenoe at Scone, Merton at Denman, and Glendon at Singleton
1827 - view
In April, records are completed for the 1828 Census. Approximately 40,000 Europeans occupy the “settled districts” of NSW and approximately 3,000 Aboriginal people are counted
1828 - view
Aborigines “have speared many an Englishman, but not unprovoked”
1828 - view
“The Attorney General…asked my opinion if it would be beneficial, to bring Lieut Lowe to trial for shooting a Black. I urged him not as [if] he was removed this would satisfy the Blacks and the other would only exasperate the Settlers more
1828 - view
The whole of the outrages may be traced to this…Many lives will be lost on both sides and the Blacks threaten to Burn the Corn
1828 - view
A warrant is issued for the capture of Melville and Harry for alleged murders of Europeans at Glendon
1828 - view
He later resigned his office as a Wesleyan Missionary on the grounds that he could see no possible means of prosecuting the Mission
1828 - view
Melville, Harry and Bulwarra are ordered to surrender. They raise a “war whoop” and shower the policing party with spears
1828 - view
Aboriginal people are adapting to changing social, economic and cultural conditions. They begin to “come in” to live and work on or near homesteads on or near their traditional lands
1828 - view
Surveyor and pastoralist, Henry Dangar completes his map of Newcastle