Cox's River depot attacked
Macquarie wrote ‘Instructions for Serjeant Jeremiah Murphy’ just days after his orders to Wallis, Shaw and Dawe in April 1816. He noted that ‘A body of Hostile natives’ had ‘recently crossed the Blue or Western Mountains from this side to the New discovered Country, and attacked and Plundered the Government Provision Depot established at Cox’s River’. It is unclear if this report is correct, that the warriors had come across the mountains from the Sydney region to escape the sweeping British campaign around the edge of the Cumberland Plain, or were from the Cox's River area. The raids were serious enough to threaten the isolated depot and other shepherds and workers. Macquarie wrote that the warriors had not only raided the government depot, but also ‘driven away from thence the Government Stock-men - as well as the Stock men of Private Individuals who were attending their Masters Herds in that Country’.
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Sources
- Note 15, Macquarie to Bathurst, 18 March 1815, HRA, vol. 9, p. 550; SLNSW, A773, 25 May 1816 pp15-16; Gazette, 1 June 1816; SRNSW, 4/1798, p.35; Orders to Murphy, 22 April 1816. SRNSW, NRS 897, 6065, 4/1798, pp. 35–37. Macquarie to Bathurst, 4 April 1817, HRA, vol. 9, p. 342.
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Cox's River depot attacked1 Mar 1816 – 30 Apr 1816 — Government Provision Depot' (Cox's River depot, near Glenroy)Macquarie wrote ‘Instructions for Serjeant Jeremiah Murphy’ just days after his orders to Wallis, Shaw and Dawe in April 1816. He noted that ‘A body of Hostile natives’ had ‘recently crossed the Blue or Western Mountains from this side to the New discovered Country, and attacked and Plundered the Government Provision Depot established at Cox’s River’. It is unclear if this report is correct, that the warriors had come across the mountains from the Sydney region to escape the sweeping British campaign around the edge of the Cumberland Plain, or were from the Cox's River area. The raids were serious enough to threaten the isolated depot and other shepherds and workers. Macquarie wrote that the warriors had not only raided the government depot, but also ‘driven away from thence the Government Stock-men - as well as the Stock men of Private Individuals who were attending their Masters Herds in that Country’.Source: Note 15, Macquarie to Bathurst, 18 March 1815, HRA, vol. 9, p. 550; SLNSW, A773, 25 May 1816 pp15-16; Gazette, 1 June 1816; SRNSW, 4/1798, p.35; Orders to Murphy, 22 April 1816. SRNSW, NRS 897, 6065, 4/1798, pp. 35–37. Macquarie to Bathurst, 4 April 1817, HRA, vol. 9, p. 342.