Table Ten:
Aborigines killed by whites,
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Date |
Place |
Number claimed killed |
Identity of killer(s) |
Circumstances |
Reliability |
Reference and comments |
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1804 |
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3 May |
Risdon Cove |
3 |
102nd Regt |
Native hunting party mistaken for attackers |
Plausible |
All sources discussed in Chapter One |
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12 Nov |
Port Dalrymple |
1 |
Guard of marines |
Natives tried to steal tent and throw sergeant into sea |
Plausible |
Historical Records of |
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1807 |
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14 Feb |
New |
1 |
Robert Waring, kangaroo hunter |
Attacked by natives in hut and speared, shot one native |
Plausible |
Knopwood diary 14 Feb 1807 |
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28 Feb |
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2 |
Two kangaroo hunters |
Conflict over ownership of dead kangaroo. Natives threw
spears, hunters shot back |
Plausible |
Knopwood diary 2 Mar 1807 |
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19 April |
Near |
1 |
Kangaroo hunters |
Governor’s kangaroo hunters attacked, shot one native |
Plausible |
Knopwood diary 19 Apr 1807 |
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1808 |
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Jan–Feb |
N/a |
5 |
Convicts Richard Lemon and John Brown |
Confessed to killing 3 men and 2 women |
Plausible |
See Chapter Two |
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Date |
Place |
Number claimed killed |
Identity of killer(s) |
Circumstances |
Reliability |
Reference and comments |
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1816 |
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31 Aug |
New |
3 |
Stock-keepers |
Stock-keepers fight off attack by 20 natives |
Plausible |
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c. 1816-18 |
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1 |
Sealers |
White men in boat attacked camp, stabbed Truganini’s
mother |
Plausible |
Calder, Native Tribes, p 104 |
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1819 |
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c. 1819 |
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1 |
Stockman |
N/a |
Implausible |
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18 March |
Stocker’s Tier, |
1 |
Stock-keeper |
Stock-keepers fight off attack by natives |
Plausible |
CSO 1/323/7578, pp 191-3, |
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1820 |
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c. 1820 |
Mount Cameron West |
2 |
Sealers |
Raided tribe to abduct women and shot men who resisted |
Plausible |
Friendly |
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1826 |
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3 Nov |
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1 |
Stockman |
Natives attacked men in hut who shot one |
Plausible |
Colonial Times 10 Nov 1826 |
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22 Nov |
Allenvale, Macquarie Plains |
2 |
Pursuit party |
After two stockmen wounded, pursuit party shot natives |
Plausible |
CSO 1/316/7578 p 12 |
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Date |
Place |
Number claimed killed |
Identity of killer(s) |
Circumstances |
Reliability |
Reference and comments |
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late Nov |
Bothwell |
2 |
Stock-keeper |
Attacked in hut and roof set on fire, stockkeeper shot two
blacks |
Plausible |
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1827 |
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c. 1827 |
Eddystone Point |
Several |
Edward Mansell, John Riddle, Thomas Tucker, Jack Williams |
Retaliation by sealers for natives killing four others |
Plausible |
Friendly |
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12 April |
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‘a few’ |
Sawyers |
Sawyers in hut fight off native attack |
Plausible |
Colonial Times 4 May 1827 |
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late June |
Western Marshes |
1 |
Thomas Baker |
Surrounded by ‘200 natives’, Baker escaped, killing one in
pursuit of him |
Plausible |
CSO 1/316/7578 p 24 |
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August |
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1 |
VDL Co stockmen |