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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
1827 - North West - 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 - North West - 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)
1828 - North West - view
Surveyor and pastoralist, Henry Dangar completes his map of Newcastle
1828 - North West - 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 - North West - 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 - North West - 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 - North West - 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 - North West - view
Aborigines “have speared many an Englishman, but not unprovoked”
1828 - North West - view
“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 - North West - 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
1828 - North West - view
A warrant is issued for the capture of Melville and Harry for alleged murders of Europeans at Glendon
1828 - North West - view
He later resigned his office as a Wesleyan Missionary on the grounds that he could see no possible means of prosecuting the Mission
1828 - North Coastal - view
Magistrate Willoughby Bean reports incidents between Aborigines and settlers.The district had within the last 5 to
6 months been greatly disturbed by the inroads of several tribes of Aborigines,
I believe from the Hunter River, the Wollombi and the Sugar Loaf. These tribes
have frequently assembled in great numbers (upwards of 200) and they have
destroyed the settlers’ crops … Mr Henderson, the district Constable … deemed
it prudent to arm 15 men from home and to go in pursuit of them. He overtook
and drove them before him along the coast to the northward till night came on,
when they doubled upon him and returned. He took two of them home and released
them some days. They confessed that it was their intention not only to rob the
settlers but likewise to capture and burn the gentleman of the name Cape who
had fired upon them … during the stealing of his corn.
1828 - North West - view
Melville, Harry and Bulwarra are ordered to surrender. They raise a “war whoop” and shower the policing party with spears
1828 - North West - view
Aboriginal people are adapting to changing social, economic and cultural conditions. They begin to “come in” to live and work on or near homesteads on or near their traditional lands
1829 - North West - view
Reward for his assistance in reducing his Native Tongue to a written Language