Topics: Events: North West

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1826 - view

Thousands of convicts are employed to build the Great North Road over nearly 10 years

1826 - view

Richard Wiseman establishes an Inn

1826 - view

Conrad Martens produces two paintings of the Hawkesbury River near Wiseman’s Ferry

1826 - 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 - view

first census of Darkinjung people in the Brisbane Waters district

1827 - 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 - 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

1827 - view

In April, records are completed for the 1828 Census. Approximately 40,000 Europeans occupy the “settled districts” of NSW and approximately 3,000 Aboriginal people are counted

1827 - view

Of the total of 2,979 Aboriginal people recorded as living in “settled districts” in NSW during 1827, nearly half live in the wider Hunter region (approximately 1,412)

1827 - view

“The black population is as great, if not greater, than the white which cannot be said of any other place in the Colony – They carry wood and water, and in short are the willing servants of the lowest classes

1827 - view

Hassel in 1897 compiled a book of “Songs by Australian Blacks”

1827 - view

Solomon Wiseman is granted a lease for seven years to operate a ferry to take passengers, livestock and goods across the river

1828 - view

Surveyor and pastoralist, Henry Dangar completes his map of Newcastle

1828 - view

Bean relates that from late-1827 “many strange tribes had appeared in the district and destroyed the settlers’ crops”. The District Constable dealt with the disturbances by “arming fifteen men and pursuing the Aborigines”

1828 - view

200 Aborigines, mostly strangers, suddenly arrive on his property and make off with his potato crop. Aborigines again troubled the settlers, pilfering and destroying crops, and even threatening lives

1828 - view

This District has within the last five or six months been greatly disturbed by the inroads of Strange Tribes of Aborigines, I believe from the Hunter’s River, The Wollombi and the Sugar Loaf – These tribes have frequently…assembled in great number (on one occasion upwards of 200 & on another 180)

1828 - view

The Aborigines whose normal sources of food had dwindled soon develop a taste for corn meal. In helping themselves they are soon in conflict with the farmers and their servants

1828 - view

Aborigines “have speared many an Englishman, but not unprovoked”

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“The Attorney General…asked my opinion if it would be beneficial, to bring Lieut Lowe to trial for shooting a Black. I urged him not as [if] he was removed this would satisfy the Blacks and the other would only exasperate the Settlers more

1828 - view

The whole of the outrages may be traced to this…Many lives will be lost on both sides and the Blacks threaten to Burn the Corn