Attack on Marsden's station
The attack on Samuel Marsden’s station on 19 November was deadly and vicious. Oversser Andrew Dunn gave ‘an alarmed account’ of events. He said ‘they came to Mr. Marsden’s Station and committed the most inhuman Murders of the Bodies of two men, that I ever saw in my life – the sight I saw I will never forget’. It seems the two dead men, convict workers William White and Peter Grenman, were mutilated as a gruesome message to those who would find the bodies.
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Sources
- Dunne to Palmer, 22 November 1823, SRNSW, NRS 897, 4/1798, 6065, p. 329. Locla historian Gwenda Stanbridge notes that Grennan was assigned to Marsden and that the killings were on 22 and 24 October ‘at the King’s Plains Government Station’. Gwenda Stanbridge, ‘“People of the Three Rivers”’, in Blayney Diggings, p. 17
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Attack on Marsden's station19 Nov 1823 — Marsden's station at Kings PlainsThe attack on Samuel Marsden’s station on 19 November was deadly and vicious. Oversser Andrew Dunn gave ‘an alarmed account’ of events. He said ‘they came to Mr. Marsden’s Station and committed the most inhuman Murders of the Bodies of two men, that I ever saw in my life – the sight I saw I will never forget’. It seems the two dead men, convict workers William White and Peter Grenman, were mutilated as a gruesome message to those who would find the bodies.Source: Dunne to Palmer, 22 November 1823, SRNSW, NRS 897, 4/1798, 6065, p. 329. Locla historian Gwenda Stanbridge notes that Grennan was assigned to Marsden and that the killings were on 22 and 24 October ‘at the King’s Plains Government Station’. Gwenda Stanbridge, ‘“People of the Three Rivers”’, in Blayney Diggings, p. 17