Evangelizing of the Aborigines

Rev. William Clarke writes: “in evangelizing of the Aborigines, however it must be carried on, if able, in other localities than Windsor [he is probably referring to Blacktown]. In so much as I am not aware that there is a single one left in the parish. A few wander hither and thither during public amusements and at the distribution of blankets. Sometimes a settler returning from a distant stock station brings with him a black boy in attendance. …We see no Blacks here between Freeman’s Reach and Portland Head on the Hawkesbury unless annual distribution of blankets in Windsor. Then they ascend from great distances. Diseases have devastated and proved fatal to many’. (Reverend William Clarke Papers 1851 ML cy3584)…