Topics: Events: North West

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1828 - view

Surveyor and pastoralist, Henry Dangar completes his map of Newcastle

1828 - view

Bean relates that from late-1827 “many strange tribes had appeared in the district and destroyed the settlers’ crops”. The District Constable dealt with the disturbances by “arming fifteen men and pursuing the Aborigines”

1828 - view

200 Aborigines, mostly strangers, suddenly arrive on his property and make off with his potato crop. Aborigines again troubled the settlers, pilfering and destroying crops, and even threatening lives

1828 - view

This District has within the last five or six months been greatly disturbed by the inroads of Strange Tribes of Aborigines, I believe from the Hunter’s River, The Wollombi and the Sugar Loaf – These tribes have frequently…assembled in great number (on one occasion upwards of 200 & on another 180)

1829 - view

Threlkeld is dismissed by the London Missionary Society

1829 - view

General’s crescent-shaped king plate suspended from his neck. Later again it is worn by Larry

1829 - view

Numerous properties start to grow grapes and produce wine

1829 - view

Rev Threlkeld completes his first draft of St Luke’s Gospel translated into the local Aboriginal language

1829 - view

Reward for his assistance in reducing his Native Tongue to a written Language

1830 - view

Aboriginal trackers work with the Wollombi police through to the 1930s

1830 - view

Chughi must have held some important position in the tribe as Bean designated him “Chief of the Broken Bay, Narara”

1830 - view

Aboriginal people are working in fledgling agricultural and pastoral industries. Many are skilled in the “use of the sickle”

1830 - view

Between 1840 and 1870, settlement is extended into hill country

1830 - view

“Justice towards [Aborigines] on our part has never been thought of…English rules…render it exceedingly difficult to cause the law to be put in force against murderers and other heinous wrong-doers towards the natives; and when…conviction has been obtained, the government has sympathized too much with the oppressing class, and too little with the oppressed, to permit justice to have its course. About 1799 several white people committed a murder…near Windsor , on the Hawkesbury , and were convicted

1830 - view

In [1826] a black man was shot in cold blood at the stake by the soldiers upon Hunter’s River

1831 - view

allotments offered for sale

1831 - view

Completion and opening to the public of the Great North Road

1832 - view

76 land grants totalling 22,000 acres for 67 settlers

1832 - view

Death of King Bungaree , Chief of the Broken Bay Tribe

1833 - view

Deeds are later issued for the occupied land at Grace’s settlement on Marra Marra Creek. Sarah Wallace (Ferdinand) purchases three acres