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Events in this conflict will be added as Australian Wars and Resistance research continues.<\/p>", "warning": null, "ghap_url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501", "linkback": null }, "features": [ { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 152.127, -31.903 ] }, "properties": { "name": "Baker's Creek, Upper Ganghat", "description": "According to the Wingham Chronicle, April 25, 1922, p2 following Binghi warriors stealing cattle from the Australian Agricultural Company's 'heifer station at Baker's Creek, 12 miles north east of Gloucester,' (near Mount Ganghat) in 1834, the beleaguered employees 'in the hut were driven to dire straits, and as a last resource mixed arsenic in dampers and placed them where the natives had easy access to them. The result was deadly to the natives. The black warriors lay down and died all around.' (Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer 25 Apr 1922 p 2)\n
\nIn 1889 a corresponden to the Daily Telegraph, 'J.W.C' wrote, 'White women were scarce in those days,\nand these men took as help-mates a couple of\nblack gins from a tribe belonging to the head\nquarters they started from. The aborigines or\nnative blacks were very troublesome in those\ndays, especially in the vicinity of Cape Hawke,\nnot far from the Manning River entrance, and\nbeing aware that a supply of rations had been\nrecently brought to Gangat and that there were\nonly two men in charge, they decided to\nstick the station up and help themselves,\nOne or two of the Cape Hawke blacks\nwere in the habit of visiting the station occasionally on their marauding excursions, and unwittingly, apparently, made the gins acquainted\nwith their designs, probably in the hope of\nsatisfying them of their safety in the event of\nsuccess. The gins were honest enough to\napprise their mates of the threatened danger,\nand suitable precautions were adopted. Slits\nwere cut in the slab walls so that guns could\nbe protruded to cover the approach of their \nassailants. Everything useful and portable\nwas brought into the humpy and doors and\nwindows barricaded. On the morning of the\nattack two blacks came to the hut as usual and\nwere at once ordered to leave and keep away or\nthey would be fired upon. The day wore on and\ntowards the afternoon a mob of blacks numbering from 50 to 60 came down to the station,\nfully armed for hostilities with spears, boomerangs and nulla-nullas, and demanded grub.\nThese also were cautioned to keep off under\npenalty of being fired upon, and seeing the\nmuzzles of two guns sticking out of a slit in a\nslab in front of them, they retired a few yards\noff, made their fires and camped for the night.\nTheir intention evidently was to attack the\nstation as soon as it was dark, and probably\nset the hut on fire and murder the men.\nTaylor and M'Grath were in a serious fix.\nMiles from any help, their horses in the bush\nunavailable for flight, they felt that with the\napproach of night their doom was sealed, and to\nmake matters worse, on examination they\nfound that they had only a couple of charges of\npowder. Taylor fortunately had a good supply\nof arsenical soap, so the men went to work and\nmade up a lot of Johnny cakes, well mixing\ntho dough up with the soap; and in the evening they opened the door of tho hut and\npitched out the cakes and drew the attention\nof the blacks to the grub supplied for their\ngratification. There was a regular scramble\nfor the cakes, while the door was closed and\nthe inmates awaited the result. The effects of\nthe arsenic soon told upon the blacks, many of\nwhom rushed to the water and drank to repletion to allay tho burning inside. Some of the\nmost gluttonous dropped dead, and such a scare\nwas produced upon the tribe that they bolted,\nbeing perfectly satisfied that the grub they\nhad so daringly demanded was not exactly the\nkind of grub they desired.\nThis, I believe, was the first act of poisoning\nthe native cannibals in the colony, and I don't\nbelieve there are many of the present generation who will blame Taylor and McGrath for\ntheir action in self-defence. The men next\nmorning left for head-quarters, and the cattle\nwere scattered in every direction, causing a\nheavy loss to the company. Many took to the\nscrubs about Bundobah and Boolaydeelah, and\nthe destruction of the bulls years after afforded\nmany a day's sport to crack pistol-shots from\nhorseback' (The Daily Telegraph, 13 Jul, 1889, p 9).", "id": "te16c0", "source": "Wingham Chronicle<\/i>, April 25, 1922, p. 2 http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.news-article166220492<\/a>; Newcastle Morning Herald<\/i>, July 25, 1964; Fitzpatrick, 1925, p 29;\nThe Daily Telegraph, 13 Jul, 1889 https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/236015071<\/a>", "datestart": "1834-01-01", "dateend": "1834-12-31", "udatestart": -4291783492000, "udateend": -4260333892000, "latitude": "-31.903", "longitude": "152.127", "linkback": "https:\/\/c21ch.newcastle.edu.au\/colonialmassacres\/detail.php?r=639", "Source_ID": "639", "LanguageGroup": "Binghi", "Colony": "NSW", "StateOrTerritory": "NSW", "PoliceDistrict": "Gloucester", "Victims": "Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People", "VictimsDead": "6", "VictimDescription": "Aboriginal", "Attackers": "Colonists", "AttackersDead": "0", "CorroborationRating": "*", "War": "Northern Rivers", "Stage": "Worimi", "Region": "East", "Period": "Early", "TLCMapLinkBack": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16c0", "TLCMapDataset": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" }, "display": { "popup": { "links": [ { "text": "TLCMap Record: te16c0", "link": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16c0" }, { "text": "TLCMap Layer", "link": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" } ] }, "source": { "TLCMapID": { "id": "te16c0", "url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16c0" }, "Layer": { "name": "Northern Rivers War and Resistance (community contributed)", "url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" } } } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 151.651, -31.931 ] }, "properties": { "name": "Cobark River", "description": "According to an article published in 1922 Aboriginal people killed 5 shepherds and then, 'After this outrage the natives divided - one body seeking shelter south west towards the source of the Gloucester River, and the other going north west towards the Upper Arundel.' A group of colonists pursued the first group and massacred people at McKenzie Cliffs. The second group was also pursued, 'At a small plain a mile west of the\npresent Cobakh Station the Port Stephens men came into conflict with the\nremaining body of natives, but the\nfugitives broke and fled northwards\nto a little flat on the Bowman River.\nHere the final tragedy occurred; a\nstand was made by the blacks, but in\nvain. Years afterwards their unburied\nskeletons could be seen' (The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer, 25 April, 1922 p 2).\n
\nA correspondent calling themself 'Wirrapit' wrote that after the massacre of the 'Rawdon Vale' tribe at McKenzie Cliff, 'advantage was taken of the presence of the Williams River settlers to further punish the tribes inhabiting the Upper Bowman and what is now Glen Ward, as they had become very daring and troublesome.\nA party of whites rode up the Cobark River and fought a pitched battle with the tribe that had arrived from Mount Moonee, and killed over 50 of them, losing seven or eight of their own men.' \nA larger party then went on to Bowman River where 'over 100 it is said --- being killed and also twelve white were killed and badly wounded' (The Scone Advocate, 7 May 1935, p 4).\nThis article notes that 'as time went on most exaggerated reports began to filter in and reach the authorities in Newcastle and Sydney'. A massacre involving the deaths of this many colonists would most likely have been widely reported at the time, and no other records have been found. The numbers of colonists and Aboriginal people killed have most likely been exaggerated.\n
\nThe massacres at Mt McKenzie, Cobark River and Bowman River occurred around the same time but available reports are long after the incidents so it is difficult to determine their year.", "id": "te16c1", "source": "The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer, 25 April, 1922 p 2 https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/166220492<\/a>; The Scone Advocate, 7 May 1935, p 4 https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/158993470<\/a>", "datestart": "1835-01-01", "dateend": "1838-12-31", "udatestart": -4260247492000, "udateend": -4134103492000, "latitude": "-31.931", "longitude": "151.651", "linkback": "https:\/\/c21ch.newcastle.edu.au\/colonialmassacres\/detail.php?r=1122", "Source_ID": "1122", "LanguageGroup": "Binghi", "Colony": "NSW", "StateOrTerritory": "NSW", "Victims": "Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People", "VictimsDead": "20", "Attackers": "Colonists", "AttackersDead": "1", "CorroborationRating": "*", "War": "Northern Rivers", "Stage": "Worimi", "Region": "East", "Period": "Early", "TLCMapLinkBack": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16c1", "TLCMapDataset": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" }, "display": { "popup": { "links": [ { "text": "TLCMap Record: te16c1", "link": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16c1" }, { "text": "TLCMap Layer", "link": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" } ] }, "source": { "TLCMapID": { "id": "te16c1", "url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16c1" }, "Layer": { "name": "Northern Rivers War and Resistance (community contributed)", "url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" } } } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 151.767, -31.922 ] }, "properties": { "name": "Bowman River", "description": "

After killing 5 shepherds, colonists pursued Aboriginal people in two groups and massacred them at Cobark River and Mt McKenzie. After Cobark River they went on to massacre people at Bowman River. These massacres were reported in 1922.
'After this outrage the natives divided - one body seeking shelter south west towards the source of the Gloucester River, and the other going north west towards the Upper Arundel.' A group of colonists pursued the first group and massacred people at McKenzie Cliffs. The second group was also pursued, 'At a small plain a mile west of the present Cobakh Station the Port Stephens men came into conflict with the remaining body of natives, but the fugitives broke and fled northwards to a little flat on the Bowman River. Here the final tragedy occurred; a stand was made by the blacks, but in vain. Years afterwards their unburied skeletons could be seen' (The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer, 25 April, 1922 p 2).
A correspondent calling themself 'Wirrapit' wrote that after the massacre of the 'Rawdon Vale' tribe at McKenzie Cliff, 'advantage was taken of the presence of the Williams River settlers to further punish the tribes inhabiting the Upper Bowman and what is now Glen Ward, as they had become very daring and troublesome.' After a massacre at Cobark river 'a larger party rode over to the Bowman River through McKenzie's Gap (Neilson's selection), and meeting with a large number of blacks fought another pitched battle, where Mr. J. Grant's homestead now stands, many blacks --- over 100 it is said --- being killed and also twelve white were killed and badly wounded' (The Scone Advocate, 7 May 1935, p 4).
This article notes that 'as time went on most exaggerated reports began to filter in and reach the authorities in Newcastle and Sydney.' A massacre involving the deaths of this many colonists would most likely have been widely reported at the time, and no other records have been found. The numbers of colonists and Aboriginal people killed have most likely been exaggerated.
The massacres at Mt McKenzie, Cobark River and Bowman River occurred around the same time but available reports are long after the incidents so it is difficult to determine their year.<\/p>", "id": "te16c2", "source": "

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer, 25 April, 1922 p 2 https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/166220492<\/a>; The Scone Advocate, 7 May 1935, p 4 https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/158993470<\/a><\/p>", "datestart": "1835-01-01", "dateend": "1838-12-31", "udatestart": -4260247492000, "udateend": -4134103492000, "latitude": "-31.922", "longitude": "151.767", "linkback": "https:\/\/c21ch.newcastle.edu.au\/colonialmassacres\/detail.php?r=1123", "Source_ID": "1123", "LanguageGroup": "Binghi", "Colony": "NSW", "StateOrTerritory": "NSW", "Victims": "Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People", "VictimsDead": "20", "Attackers": "Colonists", "AttackersDead": "1", "CorroborationRating": "*", "War": "Northern Rivers", "Stage": "Worimi", "Region": "East", "Period": "Early", "TLCMapLinkBack": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16c2", "TLCMapDataset": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" }, "display": { "popup": { "links": [ { "text": "TLCMap Record: te16c2", "link": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16c2" }, { "text": "TLCMap Layer", "link": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" } ] }, "source": { "TLCMapID": { "id": "te16c2", "url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16c2" }, "Layer": { "name": "Northern Rivers War and Resistance (community contributed)", "url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" } } } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 151.721, -32.141 ] }, "properties": { "name": "Mt McKenzie, Barrington Tops", "description": "Binghi people were shot dead and leapt or were thrown over a cliff in retaliation for them killing five convict shepherds at Robert Ramsay Mackenzie's property at Wattenbakh on the western bank of the Barrington River, two miles from Rawdon Vale, at the time known as 'Kiripit'. Survivors fled and were caught and killed on a flat at Bowman River (Wingham Chronicle, April 25, 1922, p 2). \n
\nA later article from 1935 claimed 6 shepherds were killed in the lead up to this massacre, and decribed the massacre at McKenzie's Cliffs as follows: 'The settlers from the Williams\nRiver side came across to the head\nof the Gloucester, driving the blacks\nbefore them, while the settlers on\nthis side drove all the blacks up the\nriver and at last cornered them on\nthe small flat above McKenzie's cliffs\nwhere they shot men, women and\nchildren without mercy or consideration. Those who escaped the bullet\nwere killed by falling over the cliffs\nand being smashed on the rocks below. Thus was the whole tribe of\nblacks, with one or two exceptions,\nwho inhabited this part of the district exterminated' (The Gloucester Advocate, 22 Mar 1935, p 1).\n
\nAccording to Geoffrey Blomfield, 'The massacre has a strong oral tradition' (Blomfield 1981, p 121-2).\n
\nThe location marked here is purposefully not the location of the massacre. Please note that 'The Aboriginal community has requested that the actual site is not promoted and visitation is discouraged' (NSW Parks and Wildlife Service. Barrington Tops National Park, Mount Royal National Park and Barrington Tops State Conservation Area: Plan of Management. Parramatta, NSW: Environment and Heritage: Department of Planning and Environment, 2022, p 22).", "id": "te16c3", "source": "Blomfield, 1981, p 121-2; Wingham Chronicle<\/i>, April 25, 1922, p 2<\/a>; Newcastle Morning Herald<\/i>, July 25, 1964; The Gloucester Advocate, 22 Mar 1935 https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/159633029<\/a>; NSW Parks and Wildlife Service. Barrington Tops National Park, Mount Royal National Park and Barrington Tops State Conservation Area: Plan of Management. Parramatta, NSW: Environment and Heritage: Department of Planning and Environment, 2022 https:\/\/www.environment.nsw.gov.au\/-\/media\/OEH\/Corporate-Site\/Documents\/Parks-reserves-and-protected-areas\/Parks-plans-of-management\/barrington-tops-mount-royal-national-parks-barrington-tops-sca-plan-of-management-220192.pdf<\/a>", "datestart": "1835-01-01", "dateend": "1835-12-31", "udatestart": -4260247492000, "udateend": -4228797892000, "latitude": "-32.141", "longitude": "151.721", "linkback": "https:\/\/c21ch.newcastle.edu.au\/colonialmassacres\/detail.php?r=640", "Source_ID": "640", "LanguageGroup": "Binghi", "Colony": "NSW", "StateOrTerritory": "NSW", "PoliceDistrict": "Gloucester", "Victims": "Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People", "VictimsDead": "20", "VictimDescription": "Aboriginal", "Attackers": "Colonists", "AttackersDead": "0", "AttackerDescription": "Shepherd(s)", "CorroborationRating": "*", "War": "Northern Rivers", "Stage": "Worimi", "Region": "East", "Period": "Early", "TLCMapLinkBack": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16c3", "TLCMapDataset": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" }, "display": { "popup": { "links": [ { "text": "TLCMap Record: te16c3", "link": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16c3" }, { "text": "TLCMap Layer", "link": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" } ] }, "source": { "TLCMapID": { "id": "te16c3", "url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16c3" }, "Layer": { "name": "Northern Rivers War and Resistance (community contributed)", "url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" } } } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 152.188, -30.948 ] }, "properties": { "name": "Kunderang Brook Upper Macleay River Valley", "description": "On 10 June 1840 the Sydney Herald<\/i> reported that Mr Freer, 'traveling from New England down the bed of the Macleay River with a large flock of sheep, and having one afternoon at a crossing place missed three hundred and seventy of them, he returned to search, accompanied by a stockman and a mounted black. The latter soon discovered that the stock had been driven in the direction of the mountains by' Aboriginal warriors. 'after following the tracks for about eight miles, they came to a precipitous rock, where they turned down a creek, on the sides of which they discovered from two to three hundred' Aboriginal people 'busily engaged in roasting not kangaroos but mutton. The instant they perceived Mr. Freer and his party they took to their spears and boomerangs, retiring to the ranges, but on discovering the weakness of their pursuers, endeavoured to surround them, threatening them and abusing them in tolerable English while daring them to come on. The party being badly armed, Mr Freer prudently retreated, and traveling all night and reached next day a station of a Mr Steele's JP [evidently Towel Creek] where he was furnished with the assistance of three horsemen.' Upon returning to the place he last saw the Aboriginal people, here 'he found the remains of about sixty sheep and three stockyards most ingeniously constructed.' Following their trail, 'Mr Freer and party proceeded about twelve miles up Kundering [Coonderang Creek] Brook,' where they found the Aboriginal people 'had again turned across the Mountains.' Continuing the trail, the party ultimately found the Aboriginal people 'in the act of preparing mutton; on being fired upon they speedily decamped, and the pursuing party were rewarded for their praiseworthy conduct by the satisfaction they felt on recovering two hundred and twenty sheep alive.' (SH, June 10, 1840 p 5) It is stated that the owners of the sheep were Messrs. Betts and Panton, who were at the time occupiers of Long Flat station on the Macleay River. Henderson, 1851, Vol. 2, p 5 states that 'two to three dozen men were slaughtered'.", "id": "te16c4", "source": "SH<\/i> June 10, 1840 - https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/page\/1523969<\/a>; Henderson 1851, Vol. 2, p, 5; Frost 1992, p 34.", "datestart": "1840-05-20", "dateend": "1840-05-31", "udatestart": -4090385092000, "udateend": -4089434692000, "latitude": "-30.948", "longitude": "152.188", "linkback": "https:\/\/c21ch.newcastle.edu.au\/colonialmassacres\/detail.php?r=581", "Source_ID": "581", "LanguageGroup": "Dhanggati", "Colony": "NSW", "StateOrTerritory": "NSW", "PoliceDistrict": "Port Macquarie", "Victims": "Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People", "VictimsDead": "24", "Attackers": "Colonists", "AttackersDead": "0", "AttackerDescription": "Settler(s), Stockmen\/Drover(s)", "CorroborationRating": "***", "War": "Northern Rivers", "Stage": "Macleay and Nambucca", "Region": "East", "Period": "South", "TLCMapLinkBack": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16c4", "TLCMapDataset": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" }, "display": { "popup": { "links": [ { "text": "TLCMap Record: te16c4", "link": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16c4" }, { "text": "TLCMap Layer", "link": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" } ] }, "source": { "TLCMapID": { "id": "te16c4", "url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16c4" }, "Layer": { "name": "Northern Rivers War and Resistance (community contributed)", "url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" } } } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 153.234, -29.981 ] }, "properties": { "name": "Red Rock, NSW", "description": "On July 19, 1841, the Sydney Herald<\/i> reported that Crown Lands Commissioner Oakes and a party of border police had pursued and slaughtered a number of Gumbaynggirr people after attacking and robbing a hut at the newly established Glenreagh [Glenugie] Station north west of present day Coffs Harbour. In 1886, Grafton historian Thomas Bawden, said that in 1841 the Gumbaynggirr had 'overpowered a negro while [he] was in charge of a hut' (C&RE&NEA<\/i>, July 10, 1886, p 3). In reprisal, Crown Lands Commissioner Henry Oakes led a party of mounted border police from Port Macquarie to find the offenders. They 'overtook the blacks at Corindi, where they paid full retribution for their deed.'(C&RE&NEA<\/i>, July, 10, 1886, p3) 'The massacre began when mounted police entered the camp at Blackadder Creek and started shooting. They then pursued the survivors to the Corindi River where they continued shooting. Some people were then driven off the headland' at present day Red Rock. It is not known the number of Gumbaynggirr people killed. 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'In reprisal, a posse of armed stockmen and border police, massacred the entire camp.' (Keane 1957, p.12). 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Irwin said that her uncle EDF Gorton was shown the massacre site by his father and grandfather, that the reprisal massacre took place in the evening and that as a lad, the grandfather 'chopped musket balls from the trees, in which it is said that the fearful Aborigines had attempted to find a refuge' (Clarke and Irwin 1977, p.16).", "id": "te16c8", "source": "Ford 1995, p 128; Clarke and Irwin 1975, pp15-16.", "datestart": "1841-01-01", "dateend": "1841-12-31", "udatestart": -4070858692000, "udateend": -4039409092000, "latitude": "-32.447", "longitude": "151.681", "linkback": "https:\/\/c21ch.newcastle.edu.au\/colonialmassacres\/detail.php?r=643", "Source_ID": "643", "LanguageGroup": "Worimi", "Colony": "NSW", "StateOrTerritory": "NSW", "PoliceDistrict": "Raymond Terrace", "Victims": "Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People", "VictimsDead": "20", "VictimDescription": "Aboriginal", "Attackers": "Colonists", "AttackersDead": "0", "AttackerDescription": "Mounted Police", "CorroborationRating": "**", "War": "Northern Rivers", "Stage": "Worimi", "Region": "East", "Period": "South", "TLCMapLinkBack": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16c8", "TLCMapDataset": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" }, "display": { "popup": { "links": [ { "text": "TLCMap Record: te16c8", "link": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16c8" }, { "text": "TLCMap Layer", "link": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" } ] }, "source": { "TLCMapID": { "id": "te16c8", "url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16c8" }, "Layer": { "name": "Northern Rivers War and Resistance (community contributed)", "url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" } } } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 152.812, -29.631 ] }, "properties": { "name": "Orara River, near Seelands", "description": "According to historian David Kent, in April 1841, in reprisal for alleged stock theft from Ramornie station on the Clarence River by Bundjalung warriors, CLC Oakes of Clarence PD swore in stockmen as special constables to surround a Bundjalung camp at night and at daybreak charged and killed indiscriminately Bundjalung men, women and children (Kent, 2006, p 36-41). 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\nAccording to Medcalf's narrative based on these sources, after Bundjuling people killed five white men at Pelican Creek in 1843, a group of 11 stockmen attacked a Bundjalung camp at Evans River and drove the Aboriginal people towards Goanna Headland where two schooners were sheltering from the southerly gale. The sailors on board joined in the shooting: 'Once within striking distance of the blacks a volley was poured into their ranks. Then the men aboard the schooners rushed for their guns and also opened fire on the tribe, who were mown down, the survivors fleeing in the distance. Altogether 100 darkies were killed on that headland, and for years afterwards the skulls could be picked up on the spot' (Olive in Medcalf, 1993, p 6).\n
\nElder Mrs Mary Cowlan of Box Ridge said, 'Then the white men, they came along and shoot people ... I don't know the reasons ... they (the whites) didn't know blackfeller rules ... they had no pity, they killed women, men, children, babies' (Cowlan in Medcalf, 1993, p 6).\nElder Janet Gomes, said, 'Whitefellers started firing shots. There was no way out ... they (the Aborigines) were chased across the river from the Bundjalung Reserve' (Gomes in Medcalf, 1993, p 6).\n
\nSummarising the Bundjuling narratives, which are similar in many details to the colonist version, Medcalf wrote, 'It says the killings started at the riverbank campsite, and that the Aborigines were chased east to the headland, where at least one boatload of armed sailors was waiting.\nThe tribal group was all but annihilated, it says. They were the Birihn clans ... 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The boys 'fell asleep' and when 'they awoke they found that some Aboriginal men had speared a vealer and were dragging it off.' They informed the boss when he returned, and he quickly set off in pursuit (presumably with the other stockmen) and 'quite quickly came up with them on the cliff edge. It is said that they forced them over the cliff to their deaths'. Next day one of the two young men left to hold the 'quiet' cattle 'became troubled that some of the Aboriginal people may have been left injured by the fall from the cliff and dying a lingering death in the sun. He rode out to the site of the massacre. He found an infant crawling about and took it to Pee Dee station, the McMaugh home.' 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'In 1845, Kunderan station was the property of Captain Goblin and he had two shepherds and their wives there, and they were found dead, murdered by the blacks but it was quite a week after the bodies were found and about eight hundred sheep also missing, the matter was reported to the [Crown Lands] Commissioner [Robert] Massie at Kempsey and he in company with John McMaugh and several men from the station tracked the sheep to where the blacks had driven them. They found a large number of them camped under a cliff they immediately showed fight and a battle ensued but the whitemen were well armed and a great number of blacks were killed but the only casualty on the other side was a horse, the men took cover behind the trees and fired at the murderers, a few of the sheep were found but the blacks were so numerous that they killed and ate twenty a night.' Blomfield also heard two separate accounts of the massacre from Aboriginal men, Victor Shepherd and Laurie O'Keefe (Blomfield 1981, p.38).", "id": "te16ce", "source": "McMaugh, nd: 6; Blomfield, 1981, p 36-8.", "datestart": "1845-01-01", "dateend": "1845-12-31", "udatestart": -3944628292000, "udateend": -3913178692000, "latitude": "-30.844", "longitude": "152.674", "linkback": "https:\/\/c21ch.newcastle.edu.au\/colonialmassacres\/detail.php?r=597", "Source_ID": "597", "LanguageGroup": "Dhanggati", "Colony": "NSW", "StateOrTerritory": "NSW", "PoliceDistrict": "Port Macquarie", "Victims": "Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People", "VictimsDead": "6", "Attackers": "Colonists", "AttackersDead": "0", "AttackerDescription": "Crowns Land Commissioner, Government Official(s), Settler(s), Stockmen\/Drover(s)", "CorroborationRating": "**", "War": "Northern Rivers", "Stage": "Macleay and Nambucca", "Region": "East", "Period": "South", "TLCMapLinkBack": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16ce", "TLCMapDataset": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" }, "display": { "popup": { "links": [ { "text": "TLCMap Record: te16ce", "link": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16ce" }, { "text": "TLCMap Layer", "link": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" } ] }, "source": { "TLCMapID": { "id": "te16ce", "url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/search?id=te16ce" }, "Layer": { "name": "Northern Rivers War and Resistance (community contributed)", "url": "https:\/\/tlcmap.org\/publicdatasets\/2501" } } } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 152.21, -30.978 ] }, "properties": { "name": "Dourallie Creek, Upper Macleay River Valley", "description": "On October 20, 1846, p2, the 'Sydney Morning Herald' reported: 'Accounts have been received of a great number of cattle having been speared by the blacks, at the head of the McLeay river, and at the Manning. The greatest sufferers are Messrs P. and H. Mackay in the McLeay.' Geoffrey Blomfield (1981, p 46-7), reports 'a punitive expedition led by two graziers opened fire on [Aboriginal] people swimming in [a] waterhole at the junction of [the Macleay river and Durallie Creek]. Some tried to escape by scrambling up the opposite cliff face but were \"brought back with lead\"'. Blomfield considers that ' [a]bout 60 men, women and children were swimming in the creek where they were all shot.' Details of the massacre were given to Blomfield by Aboriginal Elder Victor Shepherd (Blomfield, 1981, pp 46-7). 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In January 1848 Fry set off for Kangaroo Creek Station to investigate. He found human remains at the Aboriginal camp on the station but they were too decomposed for analysis. He ordered the arrest of Coutts, charged him with murder and sent him to Sydney on the ship Phoenix<\/i> under armed guard. In the Sydney magistrate's court he was bailed for 1,000 pounds to appear in the Supreme Court in May 1848. In May however, he was discharged for lack of evidence. The stockman who reported the crime was under arrest for another crime and the Aboriginal witnesses were prevented by law from presenting evidence in court (MMHRGA<\/i>, February 2, 1848, p 3). However, the Attorney General, J.H. 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According to Stanley Murray, elder tribesman who repeated the story to Victor Shepherd about 1930, the two settlers sat up till well past midnight making lead slugs for muzzle-loading rifles.' 'The settlers had an Aboriginal servant working for them called Jimmy Taylor, who had acquired a sufficient knowledge of English to become aware of what was going to happen.' That night he went to the camp to warn his tribesmen and 'they immediately moved camp upstream and took shelter in a rain forest, some climbing to the tops of trees and laying down in the thick matted vines covering the tree tops, while others continued on towards the tableland. It would appear that Jack Scott's mother tried to hide in some bushes so fell an easy victim to the hunters. Unfortunately for those hiding in the vines, one man coughed. This at once betrayed their hiding place with disastrous results. It is doubtful if there is any record of how many lost their lives at Towel Creek. 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The Jury, after a short retirement, found the accused not guilty and he was discharged. Tommy Doyle was one of the half-dozen aborigines who died from drinking poison supplied to them for rum.' 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