Attack on overseer
Commandant Morisset sent ‘Lieutenant Lowe with a detachment of 12 men’ out with an ‘Overseer and a Constable this morning (25th June) for Mudgee’. The overseer of ‘Mr Cox’s … station at Mudgee’, Theophilus Chamberlain, had informed Morisset that there was ‘a Tribe of Natives’ near the Cox’s run who ‘last Monday overtook him on his road home and would have murdered him had he not fortunately been mounted which enabled him to escape from them’. He also saw they had ‘destroy’d Two Cows’. As with Baker’s earlier march into the Wiagdon Ranges and back, Lieutenant Lowe’s detachment failed to find any Wiradyjuri near Mudgee.
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Sources
- Morisset to Goulburn, 25 June 1824, SRNSW, NRS 897, 6065, 4/1800, pp. 77–80
Event mentions
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Attack on overseer21 Jun 1824 — Near MudgeeCommandant Morisset sent ‘Lieutenant Lowe with a detachment of 12 men’ out with an ‘Overseer and a Constable this morning (25th June) for Mudgee’. The overseer of ‘Mr Cox’s … station at Mudgee’, Theophilus Chamberlain, had informed Morisset that there was ‘a Tribe of Natives’ near the Cox’s run who ‘last Monday overtook him on his road home and would have murdered him had he not fortunately been mounted which enabled him to escape from them’. He also saw they had ‘destroy’d Two Cows’. As with Baker’s earlier march into the Wiagdon Ranges and back, Lieutenant Lowe’s detachment failed to find any Wiradyjuri near Mudgee.Source: Morisset to Goulburn, 25 June 1824, SRNSW, NRS 897, 6065, 4/1800, pp. 77–80