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1835 - North West - view
Charley Myrtle is the uncorroborated evidence of one person [who]…had never seen him before…on this evidence the man is…sentenced to death
1835 - North West - view
Mickey Mickey was executed by hanging
1835 - North West - view
sixteen men are committed for trial for robberies
1835 - North West - view
All three escape but are recaptured and sent for trial in Sydney. Other arrests follow. The sixteen committed for trial
1835 - North West - view
An outbreak of measles in the Brisbane Water District is responsible for a number of Aboriginal deaths
1835 - North West - view
Return of Aboriginal Natives
1835 - North West - view
Aborigines of Brisbane Water District could not give testimony, not press charges, juries were exclusively white, and mostly unsympathetic – even prejudicial -- towards them
1835 - North West - view
Threlkeld remained in Sydney to attend the court cases, visited the men in gaol and visited at least six of the Aborigines confined to Goat Island
1835 - North West - view
Emu seemingly was one of the Aborigines who took a very active part in the conflict within Brisbane Water and Newcastle districts
1836 - South West - view
a gathering at Botany Bay 1842
1836 - North West - view
Rum is the strongest inducement that could be offered to the [A]borigines to make them work
1836 - North West - view
Potory-Minbee appears to be one of the many Aborigines that were attacking livestock and stealing from the few settlers in the district
1836 - North West - view
Together with Long Dick, Abraham and Gibber Paddy, “Jack Jones” (Potory-Minbee) stands indicted for stealing some goods of Alfred Jacques and William Rust (a watch, some coats, shirts, trousers, sheets, blankets, handkerchiefs, towels, a pocket book, a powder flask, and a razor and case)
1836 - North West - view
Despite the denial of carrying out the crime, the jury find all those tried guilty in around five minutes
1836 - North West - view
The Story of Boxal (c1810 – post 1842)
Boxal (Jago) is listed on 5 May 1835 as one of 16 men committed to gaol for trial having committed robberies
1836 - North West - view
From 1836, squatters can legally run sheep and cattle beyond the boundaries by paying an annual rent
1836 - North West - view
“King Cobra” appears on blanket lists as old “Constable”
1836 - North Coastal - view
Bowen
is a very effective black tracker in detecting illegal stills in the upper
reaches of McCarrs Creek, Church Point. He leads John Howard from the Customs
House at Barrenjoey, Pittwater, up the creek to where a man William Farr is
detained. Howard recognizes Bowen’s skills and recommends to the Collector of
Customs in Sydney that he should ”have a second boat which would cost about
four hundred pounds and enable him to get a living for himself and family
consisting of two daughters and a son. … as he will be liable to insult and
oppression for having aided me”. Later Howard writes “I am reluctant to employ
(Bowen) … without the protection of a constable as I have reason to believe
that violence would be used towards him.”
1837 - North West - view
The 1837 report suggests the idea of protectors, the reservation of land for Aborigines and proposes the prosecution of those whites who kill or molest Aboriginal people