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1833 - North West - view
Black trackers (unnamed) guide a mounted party led by Magistrate Robert Scott of Glendon to capture convict escapees from Castle Forbes in the Singleton area
1833 - North West - view
Aboriginal people are working as “pullers of maize” for winegrower, George Wyndham at Dalwood in the Hunter Valley
1833 - North West - view
“Our mob helped build Wyndham Estate , the winery, and my middle name is Wyndham”
1833 - North West - view
Deeds are later issued for the occupied land at Grace’s settlement on Marra Marra Creek. Sarah Wallace (Ferdinand) purchases three acres
1833 - North West - view
Returns of Aboriginal Tribes in the Hawkesbury/Lower Hunter districts during 1833 record 80 Aboriginal people
1833 - North West - view
Jonathan Warner , reports to government the presence of more than sixty warriors from the Maitland-Black Creek area who had come to make “war on the Lake Macquarie tribe
1833 - North West - view
20 Aborigines are outlawed, 8 captured and some go to Cockatoo Island
1833 - North West - view
Billy Kootee lived on the “Sackville Reserve” until the early 1900s and was buried with Bowen’s breastplate
1834 - North West - view
Returns of Aboriginal Tribes in the Hawkesbury/Lower Hunter districts during 1834 record 58 Aboriginal people
1834 - North West - view
He escapes and by 1834 is a “bushranger” living with Aboriginal people up at Barraba in the Watagan Mountains
1834 - North West - view
Aborigines are joining together in plundering expeditions, and are uniting with bushrangers
1834 - North West - view
One raid begins at “Kurinbong” (Cooranbong near Watagan Mountains) where Aborigines demand tea and flour
1834 - North West - view
One week later, the Sydney Gazette reports that eleven Aborigines had attacked John Lynch ’s home at Sugarloaf Creek and raped his servant girl. While these men carry guns, spears and waddies, there are many threats to settlers, but very few spearings and no deaths
1834 - North West - view
many of the small settlers at Brisbane Water are so much alarmed at the approach of the natives as they collect in large tribes, that they are fearful to make the least resistance and allow them to rob them as they please
1834 - North West - view
With the military to hand, peace returns to the district
1834 - North West - view
I informed the Blacks of the punishments which had taken place, and desired them to bring in all the Aborigines who had not received blankets
1834 - North West - view
Many of the Aborigines captured are tried before the Supreme Court in Sydney
1834 - North West - view
16 Aborigines are confined in a local watch house after committing robberies
1835 - North West - view
Return of Aboriginal Natives
1835 - North West - view
Aborigines of Brisbane Water District could not give testimony, not press charges, juries were exclusively white, and mostly unsympathetic – even prejudicial -- towards them