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1816 - North West - view
Captain James Wallis arrives as third Commandant in Newcastle two months after he commanded his 46th Regiment against Aboriginals near Airds and Appin and received the thanks of Governor Lachlan Macquarie for his “zealous exertions and strict attention to the fulfilling of the instructions”
1816 - North West - view
A large number of warriors hurling their spears makes clear that they intend to repulse the Europeans from the mouth of the Hunter River
1816 - North West - view
The “black Natives [are] living now peaceably and quietly in every part of the colony, unmolested by the white inhabitants”
1816 - South Coastal - view
punitive expeditions
1816 - West - view
capture 12 Aboriginal boys and six girls, between four and six years of age, for the Native Institution at Parramatta
1816 - North West - view
make“gorgets or breast plates with chains for native chiefs”
1816 - West - view
promises to grant ‘small parcels of land to such of them [Aborigines] as are inclined to become regular settlers’
1816 - North West - view
Aborigines are designated “king” rather than merely “chief”
1816 - West - view
He promises Nurragingy and Colebee a joint grant of 30 acres at South Creek (now Blacktown)
1816 - South West - view
retaliation to attacks upon farms
1816 - North West - view
Governor Macquarie ’s administration grants land
1816 - South West - view
massacre 14 Tharawal and Gundungurra men, women and children
1816 - North West - view
Betty Fulton and Milbah are captured during the Appin Massacre
1817 - North West - view
He establishes a punt to ferry travellers
1817 - North West - view
passes through many fires burning on ridgelines. He blames this obstructive behaviour on the Mellon natives behind and the Hawkesbury natives ahead
1818 - North West - view
Bantagran not only saves the lives of party members but opens an invaluable dialogue between Singleton and elders of Hunter Valley tribesmen
1818 - North West - view
Singleton abandons the idea of crossing the mountains in view of what Mu:pi reports. A dash to this large river seems risky
1818 - North West - view
Bantagran is thus the first Aboriginal to describe the river to a local landholder
1818 - North West - view
The first land grant follows in the early 1820s
1818 - North West - view
He tries to convert some of them to Christianity so they will “go to heaven if they die”. This includes “The old King, Yellowmonday” . They laugh at him and walk away