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1835 - North West - view

The next day, he stood indicted for the serious offense of rape

1835 - North West - view

Charley Myrtle is the uncorroborated evidence of one person [who]…had never seen him before…on this evidence the man is…sentenced to death

1835 - North West - view

Mickey Mickey was executed by hanging

1835 - North West - view

sixteen men are committed for trial for robberies

1835 - North West - view

All three escape but are recaptured and sent for trial in Sydney. Other arrests follow. The sixteen committed for trial

1835 - West - view

agricultural operations of the settlers

1835 - North West - view

An outbreak of measles in the Brisbane Water District is responsible for a number of Aboriginal deaths

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

1835 - North West - view

Threlkeld remained in Sydney to attend the court cases, visited the men in gaol and visited at least six of the Aborigines confined to Goat Island

1836 - South West - view

a gathering at Botany Bay 1842

1836 - North West - view

Rum is the strongest inducement that could be offered to the [A]borigines to make them work

1836 - North West - view

Potory-Minbee appears to be one of the many Aborigines that were attacking livestock and stealing from the few settlers in the district

1836 - North West - view

Together with Long Dick, Abraham and Gibber Paddy, “Jack Jones” (Potory-Minbee) stands indicted for stealing some goods of Alfred Jacques and William Rust (a watch, some coats, shirts, trousers, sheets, blankets, handkerchiefs, towels, a pocket book, a powder flask, and a razor and case)

1836 - North West - view

Despite the denial of carrying out the crime, the jury find all those tried guilty in around five minutes

1836 - North West - view

The Story of Boxal (c1810 – post 1842) Boxal (Jago) is listed on 5 May 1835 as one of 16 men committed to gaol for trial having committed robberies

1836 - North West - view

From 1836, squatters can legally run sheep and cattle beyond the boundaries by paying an annual rent

1836 - North West - view

“King Cobra” appears on blanket lists as old “Constable”

1836 - North Coastal - view

Bowen is a very effective black tracker in detecting illegal stills in the upper reaches of McCarrs Creek, Church Point. He leads John Howard from the Customs House at Barrenjoey, Pittwater, up the creek to where a man William Farr is detained. Howard recognizes Bowen’s skills and recommends to the Collector of Customs in Sydney that he should ”have a second boat which would cost about four hundred pounds and enable him to get a living for himself and family consisting of two daughters and a son. … as he will be liable to insult and oppression for having aided me”. Later Howard writes “I am reluctant to employ (Bowen) … without the protection of a constable as I have reason to believe that violence would be used towards him.”

1837 - North West - view

The 1837 report suggests the idea of protectors, the reservation of land for Aborigines and proposes the prosecution of those whites who kill or molest Aboriginal people