Massacre
Percy Gresser believed that an alleged massacre at Clear Creek was yet ‘another tradition with a solid basis of fact, but numbers greatly exaggerated’. He described how a man who owned ‘a considerable area of country towards the head of Clear Creek, under the blue range of hills to be seen to the north-east from Bathurst, pointed out to me a locality on his property where “hundreds of blacks had been shot”’
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Sources
- It may be the case that the events around the stockman killed at Clear Creek in 1823 became transformed into a massacre. Gresser Papers, BDHSMA, pp. 24–53; Bathurst Times, 20 August 1962, p. 3
Event mentions
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Massacre1 Jan 1824 – 31 Dec 1824 — Clear CreekPercy Gresser believed that an alleged massacre at Clear Creek was yet ‘another tradition with a solid basis of fact, but numbers greatly exaggerated’. He described how a man who owned ‘a considerable area of country towards the head of Clear Creek, under the blue range of hills to be seen to the north-east from Bathurst, pointed out to me a locality on his property where “hundreds of blacks had been shot”’Source: It may be the case that the events around the stockman killed at Clear Creek in 1823 became transformed into a massacre. Gresser Papers, BDHSMA, pp. 24–53; Bathurst Times, 20 August 1962, p. 3