4 Wiradyuri people killed

Date: 1 Apr 1819 – 31 May 1819
Place: Campbells River
On his journey from the Cowpastures to Bathurst, after passing the location of current-day Rockley and heading down the hills towards the Campbell River, Throsby and his party met ‘a large Tribe of Natives’. Cookoogong undoubtedly relayed to Throsby that, as Throsby recorded it, ‘the people at Bathurst was very very (cooler) angry with the Blacks’. They told Throsby and Cookoogong that the colonists ‘would set their dogs’ on them, and would shoot at them. They also said that ‘four black people have been killed and more wounded’.

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Sources

  • Throsby, ‘Journal of a tour to Bathurst’, 1819, SRNSW, 9/2743; Throsby to Meehan, 21 April 1820, SRNSW, 9/2743, pp. 86–88, 136; Smith, Aborigines of the Goulburn District, p. 5; Hassall to Macquarie, 16 June 1819, SRNSW, 4/1742, pp. 310–22; ‘November’, Annual Register, 1819, p. 88; Government and General Order, 31 May 1819, HRA, vol. 10, p. 182; Macquarie to Bathurst, 19 July 1819, HRA, vol. 10, p. 179; Parsons, ‘Throsby, Charles 1777–1828’, ADB.

Event mentions

  • 4 Wiradyuri people killed
    1 Apr 1819 – 31 May 1819 — Campbells River
    On his journey from the Cowpastures to Bathurst, after passing the location of current-day Rockley and heading down the hills towards the Campbell River, Throsby and his party met ‘a large Tribe of Natives’. Cookoogong undoubtedly relayed to Throsby that, as Throsby recorded it, ‘the people at Bathurst was very very (cooler) angry with the Blacks’. They told Throsby and Cookoogong that the colonists ‘would set their dogs’ on them, and would shoot at them. They also said that ‘four black people have been killed and more wounded’.
    Source: Throsby, ‘Journal of a tour to Bathurst’, 1819, SRNSW, 9/2743; Throsby to Meehan, 21 April 1820, SRNSW, 9/2743, pp. 86–88, 136; Smith, Aborigines of the Goulburn District, p. 5; Hassall to Macquarie, 16 June 1819, SRNSW, 4/1742, pp. 310–22; ‘November’, Annual Register, 1819, p. 88; Government and General Order, 31 May 1819, HRA, vol. 10, p. 182; Macquarie to Bathurst, 19 July 1819, HRA, vol. 10, p. 179; Parsons, ‘Throsby, Charles 1777–1828’, ADB.