Northerly Branch of Hawkesbury (Mangrove Creek/River)

1805 Jack of The Branch natives leads a party that fatally assaults a military settler on the Hawkesbury and is later shot while boarding a river trader at Mangrove; he may be the "Branch Jack" that Gov Macquarie previously recognises with a gorget

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1827 census: John Nolan is Chief of Mangroo Tribe, it numbers around 27

Timbercutters advance into rich rainforest creeks running from the Hawkesbury up Mangrove Creek

Northly Branch of Hawkesbury (Mangrove Creek/River)

Mangrove Creek (Poignant, 1951, NP; Ford 2010, 76)

Riverboat moored on Macdonald River

Riverboat moored on branch of Hawkesbury River (Macdonald River) Nichols, 2004, 65

Location

Northerly Branch of Hawkesbury (Mangrove River)

Australia

33° 23' 0.1644" S, 151° 9' 0.5688" E

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