Charles Dutton goes missing when attempting to take his stock overland from the Port Lincoln district towards Adelaide, July-October 1842

Date: 1 Jul 1842
Place: To the north of Mt Young, 150 Miles north of Port Lincoln
In July 1842 Charles Dutton decided to quit his station and overland his stock and four servants to Adelaide, travelling around the head of Spencer’s Gulf. When no word was heard of him for twelve weeks, he was presumed by many colonists to have been killed by Aboriginal people. Several search parties were unsuccessful in locating Dutton’s party or stock, and interpreter Clamor Schürmann heard several accounts of the fate of Dutton and his men from different Aboriginal groups.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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  • Charles Dutton goes missing when attempting to take his stock overland from the Port Lincoln district towards Adelaide, July-October 1842
    1 Jul 1842 — To the north of Mt Young, 150 Miles north of Port Lincoln
    In July 1842 Charles Dutton decided to quit his station and overland his stock and four servants to Adelaide, travelling around the head of Spencer’s Gulf. When no word was heard of him for twelve weeks, he was presumed by many colonists to have been killed by Aboriginal people. Several search parties were unsuccessful in locating Dutton’s party or stock, and interpreter Clamor Schürmann heard several accounts of the fate of Dutton and his men from different Aboriginal groups.
    (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