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1805 - North West - view
Six Aboriginal men from Newcastle are taken to Sydney to meet Governor King
1805 - North West - view
Jack of The Branch natives , leads a group of Aborigines to fatally assault a “Military settler” on the Hawkesbury. He is later shot while boarding a river trader at Mangrove
1805 - North West - view
Men in fringe camps sometimes agree to guide punitive expeditions against Aboriginal people on the basis that they will be permitted to take women after their men are killed
1808 - North West - view
Governor Macquarie ’s leadership (1810-1822). He arrives in 1810 and creates new positions including Andrew Thompson as the Hawkesbury’s Justice of the Peace and Magistrate
1809 - North Coastal - view
The
Hazard lost at sea with 400 bushels of wheat is driven ashore at Box Head, Ettalong, while tribespeople save a young boy from drowning. (Macken 1991)
1810 - South West - view
Macquarie, Proclamation
1814 - South West - view
kill the white settlers
1814 - North West - view
Six year old Maria from Richmond Hill is educated there. Maria remains at the Institution until she is 14
1814 - South West - view
Violence erupts
1814 - South West - view
mount a full attack on the settlers
1816 - South Coastal - view
punitive expeditions
1816 - West - view
capture 12 Aboriginal boys and six girls, between four and six years of age, for the Native Institution at Parramatta
1816 - North West - view
make“gorgets or breast plates with chains for native chiefs”
1816 - West - view
promises to grant ‘small parcels of land to such of them [Aborigines] as are inclined to become regular settlers’
1816 - North West - view
Aborigines are designated “king” rather than merely “chief”