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1825 - North West - view
Threlkeld to interpret in court cases involving Aboriginals
1825 - North West - view
After killing two white men on Greig’s farm, the perpetrators together with other “Wallumbi Natives” including women return towards Richmond
1825 - North West - view
The blacks assembled to fight, we employed them, and the waging of war was postponed
1825 - North West - view
As the violent frontier pushes many of our mob north, some find Tingha a “safe haven”
1826 - North West - view
Lowe is charged with the murder of Jacky Jacky. He stands trial in the Supreme Court. After a court case that centres on the legal status of Aboriginal victims
1826 - North West - view
Outrages are committed by Natives in the District of Hunter’s River
1826 - North West - view
Aboriginal men work gathering grapes on Glendon Estate during the nineteenth century
1826 - North West - view
Aboriginal people living in the Hunter Valley and Hawkesbury-Hunter ranges are taking refuge in elevated hinterland areas
1826 - North West - view
Another fringe landform that Aboriginal people occupy is the large swamps and wetlands that are prominent features of some intensely settled areas such as the Paterson Valley
1826 - South Coastal - view
Governor’s Feast
1826 - North West - view
pproximately two years after the “Bathurst Wars”, frontier clashes mount in the Hunter region
1826 - North West - view
Thousands of convicts are employed to build the Great North Road over nearly 10 years
1826 - North West - view
Richard Wiseman establishes an Inn
1826 - North West - view
Conrad Martens produces two paintings of the Hawkesbury River near Wiseman’s Ferry
1826 - North West - view
Aboriginal men kill and spear four men including the overseer, plunder huts and enrage settlers who are already frustrated with Aborigines who burn their grass, spear their cattle and threaten to destroy their wheat harvests
1827 - North West - view
first census of Darkinjung people in the Brisbane Waters district
1827 - North West - view
Aborigines begin to depend on government issued blankets and rations as settlers occupy their lands. This not only prevents them from traditional food gathering and hunting, but also the making of animal skin coats
1827 - North West - view
A number of these homesteads also become an important area of employment for Aboriginal people in the pastoral industry: Invermain at Scone, Segenoe at Scone, Merton at Denman, and Glendon at Singleton