Raid on 'Menah'
for a time, ‘the natives showed a friendly feeling’ towards the Coxes and their 500 head of cattle. But when there was ‘interference’ with the women, the warriors’ ‘hostility was aroused’. Warriors then ‘drove the armed stockmen away’, released cattle from the yards and killed numbers of sheep. One of the Coxes’ stockmen galloped his horse to Bathurst to report ‘the blacks had murdered his mate, looted the hut and dispersed the cattle’. arming ‘half a dozen men at Bathurst’, including Richard Lewis, who was still working for the Coxes after supervising the convicts on Cox’s road in 1815. While the armed party rode off through the Turon hills towards Mudgee, George’s brother Henry sent for military help, requesting ‘3 soldiers to be allowed to be sent from Bathurst to our station to protect our people and property’. the stockmen at ‘Menah’ had abandoned the place, and it was being guarded by two Wiradyjuri men. According to George Henry Cox, when his father George and his armed party returned to ‘Menah’, ‘they found the story exaggerated and the hut in fact guarded by “Friday” and “Aaron”’.
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Sources
- G F Cox, ‘History of Mudgee’, p. 42-44; William Cox to Goulburn, 7 February 1822, SRNSW, NRS 897, 6065, 4/1798, p. 121; Cox to Brisbane, 7 February 1822, SRNSW, NRS 897, 4/1798, 6065, p. 135.
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Raid on 'Menah'1 Feb 1822 — Menah, Mudgeefor a time, ‘the natives showed a friendly feeling’ towards the Coxes and their 500 head of cattle. But when there was ‘interference’ with the women, the warriors’ ‘hostility was aroused’. Warriors then ‘drove the armed stockmen away’, released cattle from the yards and killed numbers of sheep. One of the Coxes’ stockmen galloped his horse to Bathurst to report ‘the blacks had murdered his mate, looted the hut and dispersed the cattle’. arming ‘half a dozen men at Bathurst’, including Richard Lewis, who was still working for the Coxes after supervising the convicts on Cox’s road in 1815. While the armed party rode off through the Turon hills towards Mudgee, George’s brother Henry sent for military help, requesting ‘3 soldiers to be allowed to be sent from Bathurst to our station to protect our people and property’. the stockmen at ‘Menah’ had abandoned the place, and it was being guarded by two Wiradyjuri men. According to George Henry Cox, when his father George and his armed party returned to ‘Menah’, ‘they found the story exaggerated and the hut in fact guarded by “Friday” and “Aaron”’.Source: G F Cox, ‘History of Mudgee’, p. 42-44; William Cox to Goulburn, 7 February 1822, SRNSW, NRS 897, 6065, 4/1798, p. 121; Cox to Brisbane, 7 February 1822, SRNSW, NRS 897, 4/1798, 6065, p. 135.