Frontier conflict in the Hunter region

Frontier conflict in the Hunter region. Approximately two years after the “Bathurst Wars”, frontier clashes mount in the Hunter region. In September 1826, Rev Threlkeld observes that: “war has commenced … against the Aborigines of this land. Yesterday a party of 40 soldiers were ordered to the interior…three families have suffered by the blacks but the particulars I cannot yet ascertain” (Threlkeld, September 1826, courtesy of Wollombi Historical Society). Two years later, Threlkeld puts detailed particulars on record: “The list given consists of 15 Europeans killed by the Aborigines from 1832 to the present year 1838…whilst a secret hostile process has been encouraged and carried on against the Blacks by lawless Europeans…the loss of upward of 500 Aborigines within the last two years” (Threlkeld, Concluding Remarks 1838, 145, courtesy of Wollombi Historical Society).