Table Eight: Aboriginal killings by colonists recorded by G. A. Robinson, 1829-1839

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Date	Place	Number claimed killed	Identity of killer(s)	Circumstances	Source	Reliability	Reference
N/a*	Recherche Bay	1	Soldier	Conflict over kangaroo hunt	Eye witness	Plausible	Friendly Mission pp 84, 713, 807
N/a	N/a	N/a	N/a	Man had trophies of ears and noses of those slain	Second hand	Highly Implausible	Friendly Mission p 88
N/a	Cape Grim	1	VDL Company stockmen	Tried to get native women into their hut. Native men objected.	Second hand	Plausible (Aborig.)** ‘Several’ claimed by Chamblerlain p 175 implausible	Friendly Mission p 181
February 1828	Cape Grim	30 (6)	VDL Company stockmen	See Chapter 8	Participants	Thirty implausible but six plausible (Aborig.)	Friendly Mission pp 175, 183, 196
August 1829	Emu Bay	1	Alexander Goldie and VDL Co stockmen	Unprovoked attack on a native woman	Second hand	Highly Plausible	Friendly Mission pp 192, 235, 603
c 1827	Eddystone Point	Several	Edward Mansell, Jack Williams, John Riddle, Thomas Tucker	Retaliation by sealers for natives killing four others	Eyewitness and second hand	Plausible (Aborig.)	Friendly Mission pp 192-3, 249, 403, 437 n 16
N/a	“The Retreat”, Westbury	19	Paddy Heagon, stockman	Shot them with a swivel gun	Second hand	Highly Implausible	Friendly Mission pp 197-8
Date	Place	Number claimed killed	Identity of killer(s)	Circumstances	Source	Reliability	Reference
N/a	Western Marshes (Quamby Bluff)	1	N/a	Native leader resisted whites but later killed	Second hand	Highly Implausible	Friendly Mission p 198
N/a	Epping Forest	1	VDL Co stockmen	During native attack, stockmen shot a woman	Second hand	Implausible	Friendly Mission p 202
c 1820	Mount Cameron West	2	Sealers	Raided tribe to abduct women and shot men who resisted	Second hand and eyewitness	Plausible (Aborig.)	Friendly Mission pp 185, 202, 203–4
N/a	N/a	1	Stockkeeper	Kept her for a month and then shot her	Second hand	Highly Implausible (Aborig.)	Friendly Mission p 210
N/a	N/a	1	Thomas John of VDL Co	Enticed native with damper and then stabbed him	Second hand	Plausible	Friendly Mission p 210
N/a	N/a	1	N/a	Skull found near stockyard	Supposition	Highly Implausible	Friendly Mission p 217
N/a	Western Marshes	3	Stockkeeper	N/a	Second hand	Implausible	Friendly Mission p 217
N/a	Middle Plains and Ritchie’s Sugarloaf	‘a tribe’	Lyons and others	Drove tribe into lagoon and shot several, went to R’s Sugarloaf and shot the rest	Second hand	Implausible	Friendly Mission p 218
N/a	Long Swamp, Western Marshes	Several	Murray or Murphy and others	N/a	Second hand	Implausible	Friendly Mission p 218
Date	Place	Number claimed killed	Identity of killer(s)	Circumstances	Source	Reliability	Reference
N/a	Western Marshes	10	Gibson’s stockkeeper	Retaliation for attack on him	Second hand	Highly Implausible	Friendly Mission p 219
N/a	Western Marshes	9 or 10	Party of 40th Regiment	N/a	Second hand	Highly Implausible	Friendly Mission p 219
N/a	Kents Group Is	1	Bob Gambell, sealer	N/a	Third hand	Plausible	Friendly Mission p 246
c. 1830	Piper River	1	‘white men’	N/a	Third hand	Implausible, (see FM p 436 n 9)	Friendly Mission pp 246, 436
N/a	Piper River	Several	N/a	Bones on banks of river	Supposition	Implausible	Friendly Mission p 248
N/a	Woody Island	1	James Everitt, sealer	Native woman would not get mutton-birds for him	Second hand	Plausible	Friendly Mission pp 249, 279
October 1830	Launceston Road	3	Soldiers	Killed while returning from intertribal war at central lakes area	Participants	Implausible – see Ch. 6 (Aborig.)	Friendly Mission p 263