A man named Brown went into the bush to find work, was not seen again, and was presumed murdered by Aboriginal people, January 1842

Date: 1 Jan 1842
Place: Port Lincoln district
Included in the list of grievances included in the Port Lincoln settlers’ memorial to Governor Grey was that ‘a man named Brown left Port Lincoln to go into the Bush in search of employment and he has not since been heard of’. (NB this is not James Brown who was murdered in March 1842). The assumption was that he had been killed by Aboriginal people.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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  • A man named Brown went into the bush to find work, was not seen again, and was presumed murdered by Aboriginal people, January 1842
    1 Jan 1842 — Port Lincoln district
    Included in the list of grievances included in the Port Lincoln settlers’ memorial to Governor Grey was that ‘a man named Brown left Port Lincoln to go into the Bush in search of employment and he has not since been heard of’. (NB this is not James Brown who was murdered in March 1842). The assumption was that he had been killed by Aboriginal people.
    (See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
    Source: Robert Foster, Skye Krichauff and Amanda Nettelbeck, The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2024, http://ua.edu.au/south-australian-frontier