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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
1805 - North West - view
ergeant Obadiah Ikin lived peacefully with local Aborigal people. After the massacre, he sells his land
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 West - view
Further repressive measures follow the Cataract River slaughter
1816 - North West - view
Their land became the “infant settlement” at “the black town” on Richmond Road, later renamed Plumpton
1816 - South West - view
A reward of £10 is offered for anyone bringing any of them in, dead or alive
1816 - North West - view
Governor Macquarie issues a Proclamation forbidding Aborigines to carry offensive weapons within proximity of white settlement
1816 - South West - view
Each of the Aboriginal guides is given a ‘Complete Suit of Slops - Blanket, 4 Days Provisions, Half Pint of Spirits and Half Pound of Tobacco
1816 - North West - view
Bidgee Bidgee and Harry , Nurragingy and Colebee , act as guides. As their reward, the latter two receive land grants on the Richmond Road, which become “the Black Town”