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