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"I arrived at the Ovens in March 1838, on the evening of the day on which Mr. Faithfull's party were attacked by the blacks at Broken River...In a few days Mr. G. Faithfull selected the lands he now holds Oxley Plains and I occupied the lands immediately opposite Myrrhee, now the station of J. W. Chisholm. A panic seized the servants and they deserted their employers. Bowman, Faithfull, and White, abandoned their cattle on the runs, and I was left alone with three assigned servants, my freemen having absconded. In a few days these assigned men told me that they would stay no longer, but offered to assist me back to the settled districts with the stock. I was thus compelled to leave the Ovens. I took my stock back to the Hume River (Nurengong). On my return to the Ovens in about six months' time, I found that Chisholm had -taken possession of Myrrhee, and I settled at Warrouley, which I still hold."pp187-189 George Edward Mackay to His Excellency C. J. La Trobe, Esq. in Thomas Francis Bride (ed) Letters from Victorian Pioneers Melbourne: Librarian of the Public Library Victoria, 1898https://archive.org/stream/lettersfromvicto00publiala/lettersfromvicto00publiala_djvu.txt
