Killing of Mr Bowden’s sheep, late 1847

Date: 1 Sep 1847
Place: Bowden’s station
Protector Moorhouse and Corporal Hall visited all the recently established stations on Yorke’s Peninsula in early January 1848. They reported that Aboriginal people had taken some sheep from Mr Bowden. According to Moorhouse, of the thirty sheep taken, twenty were recovered alive, and the carcasses of ten were found before they had been eaten.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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  • Killing of Mr Bowden’s sheep, late 1847
    1 Sep 1847 — Bowden’s station
    Protector Moorhouse and Corporal Hall visited all the recently established stations on Yorke’s Peninsula in early January 1848. They reported that Aboriginal people had taken some sheep from Mr Bowden. According to Moorhouse, of the thirty sheep taken, twenty were recovered alive, and the carcasses of ten were found before they had been eaten.
    (See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
    Source: Robert Foster, Skye Krichauff and Amanda Nettelbeck, The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2024, http://ua.edu.au/south-australian-frontier